438 Lord Walsingham on 



which is slightly falcate. There is a streak of brownish 

 and fuscous scales along the fold, and some scattered 

 brown scales along the dorsal margin and at the base of 

 the dorsal cilia, which are shaded with greyish fuscous. 

 Hind wings pale greyish, with greyish oclireous cilia. 

 Legs dingy whitish, the tarsi not annulated. Abdomen 

 greyish ochreous above, barred with greyish ochreous, 

 and dingy white beneath. Expanse, 25 mm. 



Bred from lafvae in elongate cylindrical cases, some- 

 what bulged along the middle, having the mouth slightly 

 turned downwards ; of a dull ochreous tint, streaked 

 longitudinally around the middle with lines of blackish 

 particles, apparently of excrement. I met with this 

 species on Mount Shasta, California, in August, 1871, 

 feeding on leaves of Lynosyris viscidiflora, where I bred 

 and captured several specimens. It is a fine, large, and 

 distinct species. I have specimens of both sexes. 



Coleophora nigrostriata, n. s. (PL XVII., fig. 11). 



Palpi white, the second joint with an ochreous streak on 

 its outer side, slightly tufted. Antennns white, the basal 

 joint scarcely enlarged, not tufted. Head and thorax white, 

 faintly tinged with ochreous. Fore wings bright ochreous, 

 with a conspicuous white streak from the base to the mid- 

 dle of the dorsal cilia, margined with black scales on both 

 sides. The extreme costal margin fuscous at the base ; 

 a white streak along the costa from the base to the apex, 

 somewhat dilated beneath the white costal cilia ; mar- 

 gined on its lower edge by a line of black scales, 

 extending as far as the middle of the wing, beyond the 

 middle by three separate small groups of black scales ; 

 a white streak along the basal third of the dorsal 

 margin, bounded on its upper side by a line of black 

 scales ; a white streak beyond the middle, continued 

 from the median streak along the base of the dorsal 

 cilia, with two separate groups of black scales upon its 

 upper edge ; extreme apex fuscous and somewhat fal- 

 cate ; dorsal cilia pale fulvous. Hind wings and cilia 

 pale fulvous. Abdomen whitish ochreous. Legs white. 

 Expanse, 12^ mm. 



A small but beautiful species of the grouj) to which 

 C. lixeUa belongs. A single specimen, in beautiful con- 

 dition, taken on the coast of Oregon, June, 1872. 



