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to the flexus ; a narrower streak from the base near the costa extends 

 to a little beyond one-third, running parallel with the costa, but not 

 touching it ; beyond this, and a little further removed from the costa, 

 a shorter but darker streak follows the upper edge of the cell to its 

 outer extremity; two other streaks, commencing rather nearer to the 

 base, are situated on the cell and on the fold respectively, while there 

 is an indication of two dark dots at the end of the cell, scarcely more 

 conspicuous than the blackish dusting which is generally distributed 

 around them, and especially along the margins to the apex ; cilia pale 

 yellowish-brown, speckled with white and fuscous. Hindwings shin- 

 ing, pale brownish-gray; cilia yellowish. Abdomen whitish, with 

 transverse fuscous lines. Legs whitish." Expansion 13.0 mm. 



Had.— Arizona. Two 9 9 . 



Type in the author's, paratype in Nat. Mus. Coll. The 

 latter I have examined. The dark streak in the fold extends 

 the entire length of the latter. Its relationship to gigantella 

 has been referred to under that species. Although the male 

 is not known, I entertain scarcely a doubt that the species 

 belongs into the section — "Antennae of male excised above 

 the base " — Holcocera sensu Clemensi. In the synoptic table 

 I place it tentatively next to gigantella, its nearest ally. 



6. H. purpuro Cornelia Clem.— " Forewings uniform dark pur- 

 plish-fuscous, with an indistinct, blackish median dot, and two of the 

 same hue in the middle of the wing above the fold. Hindwings dark 

 yellowish-fuscous, cilia same. Head and thorax fuscous with a red- 

 dish hue. Face tinted with yellowish. Labial palpi fuscous. " 



The above is Dr. Clemens' short description. The type, a 

 female, in fairly good condition, is in the Clemens' collec- 

 tion at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. A 

 number of specimens in my own collection. The labial 

 palpi are long, recurved, a trifle more slender and longer 

 in the female than the male, the third joint two-thirds the 

 length of the second, sordid ochreous, densely dusted with 

 dark fuscous, less so towards the apex, the lower edge 

 somewhat roughened with dark fuscous scales. The head 

 and basal joint of antennae are sordid ochreous, more or 

 less densely speckled and suffused with reddish fuscous. 

 Antennal shaft fuscous, slender; in the male moderately 

 excised above the base, with obliquely truncated scale tuft, 

 ciliated; cilia scarcely \. The purplish fuscous coloring of 



