437 



Co. specimens are much the darkest, hut the holotype shows the grayish 

 underlying shade on the primaries with sufficient distinctness to con- 

 nect the three, and in its genitalia agrees with the paratype from 

 Christmas. The species is unlike any other known to us. Its life 

 history has not been worked out. 



51. OlDAEMATOPHORUS V.SRIUS n. sp. PI. XLVI, fig. 16. PI. LII. 



fig. 11. 



Head whitish, faintly touched with brown above. Antennae white usually 

 vaguely brown dotted above. Palpi white with a few dark scales on outside 

 of second joint, moderate, slender, oblique. Legs white, the first two pairs 

 striped with dark brown and the hind pair shaded lightly on one side with 

 grayish. Thorax and abdomen white. 



Primaries soft, pale, brownish gray with a variably heavy white overscal- 

 ing which is slightly thinner on the costa and often appears to be confined t" 

 the spaces between the veins on the lobes so that the veins appear to be dark- 

 lined. Fresh specimens show a rather definite band of the white scales entirely 

 around the cleft. Extreme costa darker in basal half. Fringes and secondaries 

 concolorous but without wdiite scales. Expanse 19-23 mm. 



Type series seven specimens from San Diego, Cal., Apr. to Aug. and one 

 paratype $ from Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Cal., Mar. 



Holotype $, allotype and 4 paratypes, iS , \ 9, coll. Barnes. 



Paratype $ U. S. N. M. No. 23485. 



Paratype S coll. Meyrick. 



We also have specimens from Moliave Co.. Ariz., Sept., and Red- 

 ington, Ariz. 



Varhis does not impress us as a species which is likely to be mixed 

 readily with falsus, but it is difficult to select definite and conspicuous 

 characters to distinguish the two. In general falsus is much stouter 

 in appearance, and we have seen no specimens in which the costa of 

 the primaries was darkened toward the base nor the antennae dotted 

 above. The latter is not always true of varius. but the former appears 

 to be; both characters are very obscure. 



We have no notes on the early stages. 



52. C)iDAEMATorHORUS coRVUs n. sp. PI. XLII, fig. 17, 18. PI. LIV, 



fig. 8. 



Head brown, narrowly pale yellow between antennae. Antennae whitish, 

 dotted with brown above. Palpi moderate, slender, oblique, yellowish white 

 with a brown outer line. Legs yellowish white, the first two pairs gray-brown 

 on one side and the hind pair variably shaded in the darker specimens. Thorax 

 and abdomen pale yellow to very pale grayish yellow, the latter with a fine 



