— iso— 



Hind wings light yellowish -white, somewhat fuscous, subpellucid. An outer line 

 outwardly on veins. A black marginal line cut at veins. Fringes inter- 

 line!. Beneath dark fuscous washed over dirty white, an outer indistinct dentat< 

 white line on fore wings. Hind wings nearly as above but duller. 



i $. S. Cal. Nearest T. breviornatalis Grt., but apart from color 

 differences, a very much frailer insect. 



Toripalpus incrustalis, Sp. nov. Expands 25 mm. Head, thorax and ab 

 domen ochery brown, the palpi with an orange, the collar with a violet tinting. Fort- 

 wings light ocher washed ai d spotted with ocher fuscous with a black point ol raised 

 scales at middle of base and on disc. Basal field quite dark. Basal line of ground 

 color indistinct but shown by the darker shadow lines. Middle field unite clear in- 

 wardly, ochery fuscous outwardly, this color divided by the veins which are light 

 ocher. Outer line parallel with outer margin, waved inwardly, dentate outwardly. 

 Outer held ochery fuscous, lighter on veins. A marginal row of black points. Hind 

 wings even lu-ouis, lighter towards base, with a marginal black line. Beneath fus 

 cous with a reddish shading except on inner margins, the reddish being especially 

 marked along costa of fore wings. 



1 9- Col. It is thought by many that in this and other sub- 

 families no insect ought to be described unless from the ^, as that alone 

 furnishes the generic characteristics. I take a pleasure in naming from 

 the 9 only, as a protest against the founding of genera upon secondary 

 sexual characters. 



Toripalpus lunulalis, Sp. nov. Expands 22 to 25 mm. Mead and collar 

 yellowish brown, strongly washed with violet. Palpi brownish gray' or yellowish 

 gray in front, the last member short and distinct. Ocelli present. Thorax dark 

 fuscous. Abdomen light fuscous, the segments ringed with dark fuscous, extremity- 

 tufted in (^ with lateral tufts on 2 segments preceding anal segment. Fore wings 

 much rounded at apex, generally light even blue gray in color with a strong shading 

 of fuscous on basal and outer fields. A dark broken cross line close to base not al- 

 ways distinct ; near the outer edge of the field a dark line consisting of lengthened 

 and raised scales, and extending quite across the wing. The line limiting the field is 

 very indistinct and is eviden ed rather by its hardly distinct shade lines. Middle 

 field with three raisi d scale tufts, one discal small, the second extra-discal, more pro- 

 minent and lengthened, the latter shaded outwardly, with fuscous, and a' third near 

 center of the field one-third from inner margin, black. Outer line quite distinct near 

 costa, becoming obsolete posteriorly, shaded as usual, this shading being broad and 

 diffuse near costa and outwardly occupying the whole apical space. The outer line 

 forms a large sinus from the costa, and this with the shading and posterior obsoles- 

 cence gives a distinctly lunular appearance to the apical marking's. Outer field 

 anteriorly fuscous divided by the yellow fuscous color of the veins — fading into the 

 ground color posteriorly. Hind wing's fuscous, smooth, dark at margin. Beneath 

 fuscous on fore wings with a costal band lighter, the whole with a reddish tinge quite 

 marked at apex. Hind wings reddish at angle, otherwise fuscous. 



2 cf(5\ 2 9 9- Col. Perhaps not properly congeneric with Tori- 

 palpus, as there is a difference in the shape of palpi, and veins 4 and 5 

 of hind wings are from a stern. 



