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A. |>sir:i<lo.vella n. sp. — Ashy gray, with a silvery ochreous lustre. Palpi 

 somewhat brownish beneath. Front shining, silvery yellowish. Thorax slightly 

 dusted with fuscous. The forewings in oblique light have a brassy reflection, 

 lightly dusted with fuscous, more so in basal part of wing; costa at base brown- 

 ish ; dusting more dense along base of circuni-apical cilia, the latter grayish 

 brown, sparsely sprinkled with fuscous scales. Hindwings silvery gray, cilia 

 ochreous gray. Abdomen above tinged with fuscous, particularly on the sides. 

 Underside of body and legs ochreous white, shining, somewhat dusted with fus- 

 cous; spinules of tarsal joints ochreous. 



Exp. 1(5.0 mm.; 0.(34 inch. 



Hub. — California (Pasadena). 

 A unique male in ray collection. 



EPICHLETA gen. n. 



Type nepotella. 



Labial palpi curved upwards, first joint with several bristles be- 

 neath, second joint incrassate with long lateral setae, obliquely trun- 

 cate anteriorly, truncature with stiff, spreading hairs, third joint about 

 as long as the second, semi-ascending, flattened, under surface with 

 coarse stiff bristly hairs, which project brush like beyond its distal 

 end. Head and antennae as in the preceding. Forewing elongate, 

 pointed ; all veins present, veins 7 and 8 stemmed, 9 and 10 with 

 very long stem, \ b furcate. Hindwings elongate ovate, pointed. 

 All veins present, free, 1* strongly furcate; frenum absent. 



Represented by one species. 



E. nepotella n. sp. — Palpi deep ochreous, brownish externally. Head and 

 basal joint of antenna? yellowish brown, the latter more predominant in the 

 occipital whirl of hair. Antennae pale grayish ochreous. Thorax leaden-gray, 

 with a faint, greenish, metallic lustre. Forewings yellowish leaden, with me- 

 tallic lustre, and thinly speckled with pale fuscous scales, the latter more aggre- 

 gated in the apical part of wing; extreme costa fuscous; beyond the middle and 

 within the costal margin is a rather large, but obscure fuscous spot and three or 

 four spots on the apical part of costa, a spot at end of cell and another beneath it 

 near the end of fold, some obscure dots along base of dorsal cilia. Cilia grayish 

 ochreous. Abdomen above ochreous fuscous. Underside of body and legs gray- 

 ish yellow, dusted with pale fuscous. 



Exp. 14.0 mm. ; 0.56 inch. 



Hab. — California (Pasadena). 

 Two specimens in my collection. 



Subfamily Tinein^:. 

 Head entirely rough haired, more rarely those of front, subap- 

 pressed. Tongue developed (except Tenaga), of moderate length 



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