N0.1567. NEW AMERICAN TINEID MOTHS— WALSINGHAM. 207 



Habitat. — Colorado, Loveland, 5,000 feet, July, 1891; September, 

 1891 (W. G. Smith, collector). Thirty specimens. 



This species could only be compared with Holcocera pwrpuroco- 

 mella Clemens, of which I have only a single female, and if Clemens 

 rightly referred his species to the genus Holcocera they are of course 

 structurally distinct, but apart from this I can not regard them as 

 identical. 



CATACRYPSIS STYGNA, new species. 



Antennse pectinate, but not notched ; purplish gray. 



Palpi purplish gray. 



Head and thorax purplish gray, the tegulse with a distinct coppery 

 tinge. 



For swings tawny vinous gray, a purplish sheen strongly exjDressed 

 at the base of the costa, the middle and outer lialf of the costa slightly 

 darker than the remainder of the wing; the commencement of this 

 dark shading extends across the wing to the dorsum, leaving the 

 preceding space outwardly angulate at the middle and of a paler or 

 more grayish shade; a reduplicated shade-spot at the outer end of 

 the cell is very obscurely indicated; cilia brownish gray, with a 

 slight tawny suffusion. 



Alar expanse. — 18 mm. 



Hindwings brownish gray; cilia pale buff -brownish. 



Ahdomen (missing). 



Legs brownish gray, with broad tawny tarsal bands. 



Type. — Male, No. 90425, Mus. Walsingham. 



Habitat. — Mendocino County, north of Mendocino City, California 

 (close to the town), June 3-5, 1871 (Walsingham, collector). Unique. 



Very similar in appearance to Holcocera purpurocomella Clemens, 

 but differing in the absence of the notch in the antennae. 



CATACRYPSIS URSELLA, new species. 



Antennx with pecten, but without notch; pale brownish ochreous. 



Palpi brownish gra}" externally, dirty whitish on their inner sides. 



Head and thorax bone-whitish, the latter tinged with brownish 

 gray anteriorly. 



Forewings bone-white, much suffused and sprinkled with brownish 

 gray, overclouding the costa as well as the apical area beyond the 

 cell, but less profusely along the dorsum and scarcely at all along the 

 disc; a faintly indicated narrow brownish gray fascia seems to leave 

 the costa at one-third from the base, and, after interruption on the 

 cell, is bent inward from the fold to the dorsum at one-fourth; this is 

 somewhat accentuated in the fold, where it probably absorbs a small 

 darker spot, corresponding to, but preceding, a larger brownish fus- 

 cous discal spot about the middle of the wing; two smaller darker 

 spots are indicated at the end of the cell, and one at the lower edge of 



