NO. 1667. NEW AMERICAN TINEID MOTHS— WALSINQU AM. 199 



Family (ECOPHORID.E. 



Genus ETHMIA Hubner. 

 liTHMIA ALBITOGATA, new species. 



Antennse fuscous. 



Palpi blackish, with a few white scales beneath, at the base and 

 about the apex of the median joint; terminal joint erect, slightly 

 recurved, somewhat shorter than is usual in the genus. 



Head and thorax dull fuscous, the ends of the tegul* whitish. 



Forewings elongate, narrow, rounded at the apex, termen oblique, 

 slightly convex; wdiite, densely suifused with brownish fuscous 

 which forms an obtuse angle on the outer half of the fold, receding 

 very obliquely tow^ard the basal and apical portions of the costa; 

 a spot of the same color is conspicuous immediately above the tornus, 

 running obliquel}' inward, and a smaller spot lies immediately below 

 and adjacent to the fold near the base; the extreme costa is whitish 

 and the darker markings here mentioned are rendered more con- 

 spicuous in the paler or less-suifused varieties, while in others they 

 become less noticeable through the more complete shading of the 

 general surface of the wing; cilia whitish, more or less suffused with 

 brownish fuscous, but usually with a small white spot on the upper 

 half of the termen below the apex; underside pale brownish fuscous, 

 the costa and dorsum and the subapical spot in the cilia showing 

 some white scaling. 



Alar expanse. — 16 mm. 



Hindwings white, slightly shining, the ajiical fourth brownish 

 fuscous; cilia white, with a narrow basal band of brownish fuscous 

 coinciding with the darkened portion of the wing; underside white, 

 with a small fuscous shade at the apex. 



Abdomen brownish fuscous. 



Legs whitish, much shaded with brownish fuscous; some pro- 

 jecting white hairs from the end of the posterior tibiae. 



Tyj>e.^Msi[e, No. 101552, collection Walsingham; paratype male. 

 Cat. No. 10346, U.S.N.M. (Walsingham determined, No. 823, 1906). 



Habitat. — California (Zellei- coll., Mus. Walsingham; Beutenmiiller 

 coll., U.S.N.M.). Two specimens. 



Family BLASTOBAwSIDtE. 



Blast ohnsi'Iiv MnvRicK, Trans. Ent. Soc Loud., 1894, p. 22. 



SYNOPTIC TABLE OF GENERA. 



, ( Hindwings with vein 4 absent 2 



\ Hindwings with vein 4 present ' 11 



r, / Antennte with pecten 4 



" \Antenn8e without pecten (male without notch) 3 



