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Hind-wings, gray, with paler cilia. 

 Aldomen, fawn gray. 

 I^xj). al., 34'"'". 



i7«6|7a^Esqaimalt Vancouver Island; 5 <?, 29 ; collected by Mr. J. J Walker- 

 beaten from Oaks, August, 1882. • o. j. w alter, 



Type. $ 9 , Mm. TFlsm. 



TRACHOMA Wlgrn. 



Trachoma senex sp. n. 



Palpi, tawny, profusely sprinkled with gray; the upper surface of the second ioint 

 and the apical joint almost entirely hoary-gray. ^ ^^ 



Aniemiw, tawny, faintly annulated with gray. ^ 

 Head, tawny; face sprinkled with gray. 

 Thorax, tawny. 



Fore-wings, tawny, sprinkled and transversely streaked with hoarv -rav h..- 



eral patches of raised tawny scales on the basi-dorsal half of n- !:■ ^,''''" 



before and above the anal angle ; the hoary-gray :;lk : :'tL :f;i^^^^^^^^ 

 the wing IS luterrupted by slender lines of tawny scales and son,. M '"'"'''[^^^^^ ^^ 

 is scattered about the fold and the base belov^t fe cost^ 17^ mY /"^ 

 costal margin is a dark tawny-fuscous patch, contLrng:;^^ ^leT^.t: 

 followed by a chestnut-brown shade, sprinkled with hoarv at tT ' f 



and crossed by two longitudinal tawny lines on 7ts lower h.^f V^^'"" ^^"' 

 outer end of the lower line is a short l^^^C^lZ^Z^";^':;:: ll!^ 

 portion of the wing on the costal margin is thickly sprinkled Jitbl ' ! 



Hind-wings, gray, with a faint purplish tinge ; cilia somewhat paler 

 AMomen, gray ; anal tuft inclining to ocherous. 

 Exp. al., 20'"'". 



^"'c:;;:,y:c!t 'C< """" ' ^" '"<"""«' '° ^"*- ^^^^ - >abe.e<, .. P,.cer 

 Type, 9, Mus. Wlsm. 



This species is allied to the European TracJwma horndella Tr but diff..^ ■ .i 

 abundance of hoary scales, in the oblique white spot at the end .fVl . ^' 



chestnut-brown on the costa and at the anal angle '^" ''"' ^""^ ^" *'^ 



PTEROLONCHE Z. 



Pterolonclie iineata sp. n. 



Head, antennw, and imlpi,houii.co\ov; the antennae stron^lv setnloo.. «oi • 



w„g a, w«„ „,„„g the upper portion of .l.e c,isca, celf al b y,^; /^ J^^^^^^^ 

 couotag these l,„es aeros, the wing, 8 are dietioctl, faceable, a < a Sto 

 short one, tending inwards from the end of the cell lies hetw,J„ ,ll . 

 and 4 lower ones ; cilia, s^ot.-gray. Under side son ewhaf t Tta .ban tbTuT 



