Noj'th American Coleophorce. 439 



Coleophora bella, n. s. (PI. XVII., fig. 12). 



Palpi white, the second joint sKghtly tufted. Antennne 

 white, with the hasal joint clothed with coarse scales, 

 projecting in a short tuft below. Head white, tinged 

 with ochreous below and behind the eyes. Fore wings 

 bright yellowish ochreous, the apical fifth more or less 

 suffused with reddish brown, running to a point at the 

 extreme apex ; a silvery white streak from the base, 

 above the fold, to the dorsal cilia; the costal margin 

 and costal cilia white (I have one specimen in which the 

 costal margin is not white near the base, and in which 

 the apical third is entirely suffused with reddish brown) ; 

 the dorsal margin narrowly white at the base ; cilia 

 fuscous. Hind wings pale brownish ; cilia fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish ochreous ; anterior legs suffused with 

 fuscous ; posterior legs white. Expanse, 12 mm. 



Five specimens taken in June and August, 1871, in 

 Mendocino and Siskiyou Counties, California. 



Allied to C. nigrostnata, but without the black mar- 

 gins to the white streaks. 



Coleophora riscidiflorella, n. s. (PL XVII., figs. 13, 13 a). 



Palpi whitish, with some brownish scales externally, 

 not tufted. Antennae conspicuously annulated with 

 white and brownish fuscous, with the basal joint white 

 above, enlarged and clothed with long coarse scales, but 

 not tufted. Fore wings white, much besmeared with 

 brownish ochreous, except about the costal and apical 

 portion ; the extreme costal margin fuscous at the base ; 

 several irregular lines of scattered fuscous scales, the 

 most conspicuous being one beneath the costa from the 

 base, and one along the fold ; with two or three shorter 

 oblique ones near the costal cilia, and one at the extreme 

 apex, which is not falcate. Cilia white at the apex, 

 merging into greyish fuscous above and beneath. Hind 

 wings pale greyish, with greyish ochreous cilia; the 

 bases of the posterior tarsal joints tinged with fuscous 

 externally. Expanse, 15 mm. 



In the general tint of the coloration this species is not 

 unlike the larger C. lynosyridella, which feeds upon the 

 same plant ; but it is much smaller, and has annulated 

 antennae, with a distinctly enlarged basal joint. I found 



