46 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



20. H. iucouspicua Wish. — "Antennae pale grayish-brown. 

 Palpi grayish-brown, darkened externally. Head and thorax grayish- 

 brown. Forewings grayish-brown through a profuse dusting, amount- 

 ing to an almost entire suffusion of this color upon a pale cinereous 

 ground ; the only marking indicated is a slight and obscure transverse 

 shade at two-fifths from the base and a reduplicated brownish-fuscous 

 spot at the end of the cell ; cilia pale grayish-brown. Alar expanse 

 13-14 mm. 



" Hindwings shining, purplish-gray ; cilia yellowish-brown. Abdo- 

 men shining, brownish-gray. Legs pale yellowish-brown. Type in 

 Mus. Walsingham." 



Paratype, male, Nat. Mus. Coll. 



Hab. — Shasta County (Hatchet Creek), California, July 

 14-17, 1871. 



An obscure and ill-defined form. Have examined the 

 specimen in Nat. Mus. Coll. Veins 3 + 4 of hindwing long 

 stemmed, 5 out of stem of the latter, nearly unicolorous, the 

 spots at end of cell as well as the obscure transverse shade, 

 scarcely discernable. Appears to differ from funebra in the 

 absence of the metallic sheen and first discal spot and the 

 lighter simi-transparent color of the hindwings. 



21. H. stygna Wish. — "Antennae pectinate, but not notched; 

 purplish-gray. Palpi purplish-gray. Head and thorax purplish-gray, 

 the tegulae with a distinct coppery tinge. Forewings tawny vinous 

 gray, a purplish sheen strongly expressed at the base of the costa, the 

 middle and outer half of the costa slightly darker than the remainder 

 of the wing ; the commencement of this dark shading extends across 

 the wing to the dorsum, leaving the preceding space outwardly angu- 

 late at the middle, and a paler or more grayish shade ; a redupli- 

 cated shade-spot at the outer end of the cell is very obscurely indicated ; 

 cilia brownish gray, with a slight tawny suffusion. Hindwings brown- 

 ish-gray ; cilia pale buff-brownish. Abdomen (missing). Legs brown- 

 ish-gray, with broad tawny tarsal bands. Alar expanse 18 mm. Type, 

 male, in the author's collection;" 



Hab. — Mendocino County, north of Mendocino City, Calif, 

 (close to the town), June 3-5, 1871. Unique. 



The author compares this species with H. purpurocomella 

 Clem. To judge from the description it should very closely 

 resemble Holcocera dives, var. basipallidella ; the basal space 

 in H. purpurocomella is not paler and angulated externally. 



