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and is easily partly lost in rubbed specimens. Still more easily lost 
and in fact only preserved in perfect specimens is a series of five 
undulating lines of white raised seales across the wing; on the fold 
in the central one of these white lines is an ill-defined black dot and 
the outer crossline contains two or three small patches of black scales 
before the terminal edge. Cilia light ochreous. Hindwings dark 
fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs ochreous fuscous with faint- 
ly annulated tarsal joints. 
Alar expanse, 19 mm. 
Habitat—Laguna Beach, Southern California. C. F. Baker, coll. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. Type, No. 14337. 
This species belongs to the group, described under the generic 
name ELulepiste Wlsm. and comes closest to cressoni Wlsm. and 
maculifer Wlsm., but is amply distinguished by the ornamentation. 
The various genera, erected in the family Acrolophidae on the see- 
ondary sexual characters of the labial palpi can not be maintained. 
(See Proce. Wash. Ent. Soe. XI, p. 186, 1909). 
