198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxm. 



Head and thorax white, the latter dusted with brownish fuscous 

 scales . 



Forewings white, the base of the costa and the extreme base of the 

 dorsum brownish fuscous; an elongate brownish fuscous spot lies 

 above the middle of the wing between and projecting farther than 

 the brown above and below it; a large brownish fuscous patch 

 begins at the basal fourth of the costa, its inner edge sloping obliquely 

 toward, but not attaining, the middle of the dorsum; beyond its 

 lower point it is indented upward to the middle of the wing and 

 thence continued to the apical fourth, where its straight outer edge 

 is margined by a narrow band of white; the apical portion of the 

 wing, together with the grayish white cilia, is dusted and clouded 

 with brown, and at the base of the cilia, beyond the middle of the 

 dorsum, are a few brownish fuscous scales. 



Alwr expanse. — 10.5 mm. 



Hindwings pale gray; cilia faintly tinged witli ochreous. 



Abdomen grayish ochreous. 



Legs, hind tibiae whitish ochreous, the tarsal joints smeared above. 



2Vi>^^— Female, Cat. No. 10677, U.S.N.M.; No. 142, Riley, 1886; 

 No. 842, Walsingham, 1886. 



Habitat. — Folsom, California, July 1, 1885 (A. Koebele, collector). 



This species appears to be allied to the group oi fraternella Douglass. 



GELECHIA SUBTRACTELLA Walker. 



Gelechia subtractella Walker, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., Pt. 39, p. 592, No. 229, 

 1864.— Riley in Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 102, No. 5487. 



Blastobasis subtractella Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52. 1902, p. 528, No. 

 5969. 



Type. — Female in the British Museum. 



Habitat. — Nova Scotia. 



An old note of mine, made many years ago, '^Blastobasis ? Wlsm- 

 MS. 190: 1892," is probably responsible for the removal of this 

 species from Gelecliia to Blastobasis in Dyar's Catalogue, but a sub- 

 sequent note reads as follows: "This is a Gelechiad; a wretched 

 object, unset and much worn. Palpi rather rough beneath, terminal 

 joint a little shorter than median. Neuration and width of wing 

 impossible to arrive at. I should call it an obscurely marked Lita, 

 much mottled with subferruginous spots on middle of fold, at end 

 of cell and near apex, also perhaps at end of fold; but these are 

 scarcel}^ distinguishable from the fuscous sprinkling and shading which 

 covers the apparently paler wing-surface (much worn)." Until 

 further evidence is forthcoming this must remain as an unrecog- 

 nized Gelechia. 



