NORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE 177 



Types. — In British Museum {puncticostana) ; in Museum Com- 

 parative Zoology {rtiurina). 



Type localities. — Nova Scotia (puncticostana) ; Caribou Island, 

 Labrador (murina). 



13. OLETHREUTES PUNCTICOSTANA MAJOR (Walsinghara) 



(Fig. 444) 



Pcnthina major Walsingham, Trans. Bnt. Soc. London, 1S95, p. 502. 

 Olethreutes major Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5058, 1903. — 



Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 1924, p. 454. 

 Argyroploce major Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 6839, 1917. 



A somewhat larger Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast variety of 

 puncticostana. It probably does not deserve to be distinguished even 

 as a race; but should be kept as such until intergrading forms are 

 recovered. In pattern and genitalia metaUicana Hiibner is very 

 close. It is possible that our American forms are varieties of the 

 European species. I believe, however, that they are distinct. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection 

 ("Colo. 2168"). 



Distribution. — British Columbia, Alberta (Banff). There are 

 also male and female specimens from Atlin, British Columbia, in 

 the collection of Mr. E. H. Blackmore. 



Alar expanse. — 23-25 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — ^Loveland, Colo. 



14. OLETHREUTES DEPRECATORIA, new species 

 (Figs. 247, 436) 



Palpi, face, and head whitish ocherous; some faint fuscous dusting 

 on palpus toward apex of second joint; third joint pale. Thorax 

 pale acherous with slight peppering or cross streaking of dark fus- 

 cous. Fore wing dull whitish ocherous with brownish or grayish 

 fuscous pattern markings; pale antemedian and postmedian areas 

 finely lined with fuscous; dark markings dusted with ocherous 

 scales, giving them a rather dull ashy fuscous shade, especially in 

 the males (the females have the dark areas less overlaid with pale 

 scaling and are more brilliant and more sharply contrasted against 

 the pale areas) ; dark basal patch sharply excavated below middle, 

 vertically lined with ocherous; median band narrow on costa, out- 

 wardly rounded at end of cell and inclosing a faint whitish dot, more 

 or less coalescing with pretornal spot on dorsum (especialh^ in males) 



