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the cell equidistant between the inner and outer discal spots; the 

 apex is slightly mottled, the cilia pale brownish gray. 



Alar expanse. — 18 mm. 



Hindwings pale gray, with a slight brownish tinge; cilia pale 

 brownish ochreous. 



A hdomen grayish . 



Legs pale brownish ochreous. 



r?/pe.— Male, No. 90438, Mus. Walsingham. 



Habitat. — Shasta County, Bear Creek, California, July 27-28. 

 1871 (Walsingham, collector). Unique. 



The species is larger than inconspicua and more marked ; the gen- 

 eral pattern much as usual in this group, but the difference of struc- 

 ture renders it easily distinguishable from Valentinia glandulella 

 Riley, Holcocera chalcofrontella Clemens, or Eypatopa texanella 

 Walsingham. 



CATACRYPSIS IRENICA, new species. 



Antennse,iema\e, hTowiiish gray; basal joint with strong pecten, 

 paler. 



Palpi grayish white, median joint grayish brown externally nearly 

 to its apex; terminal joint also sprinkled with grayish brown. 

 ' Head and thorax whitish, slightly sprinkled with brownish gray. 



F'orewings grayish white, with brown-gray sprinkling, especially on 

 the outer two-thirds of the costa and on the dorsal and apical portions 

 of the wing; a patch of this at the base of the costa, mixed with some 

 ferruginous scales; a similar patch before the middle of the costa 

 exhibiting more of the ferruginous coloring, which is diffused down- 

 ward to the fold, touching the inner extremity of an elongate-ovate 

 blackish-brown discal spot, beyond which, at the end of the cell, are 

 two smaller spots of the same color, which is also faintly reproduced 

 in a diffused patch or cloud on the dorsum beneath them and on the 

 costa beyond them; cilia hoary grayish. 



Alar expanse.— 20 mm. 



Hindwings shining, yellowish gray, with pale brownish ochert)US 

 cilia. 



Abdomen whitish gray. 



Legs whitish, shaded with brownish gray on their outer sides. 



Type.— Femsih, No. 90429, Mus. Walsingham. 



Habitat.— ^Mendocino County, mouth of Albion River, California, 

 May 30-31, 1871 (Walsingham, collector); British Columbia, New 

 Westminster, June 13, 1900 (C. W. Durrant, collector). Two 

 specimens. 



CATACRYPSIS INCONSPICUA, new species. 



Antennse pale grayish brown. 



Palpi grayish brown, darkened externally. 



Head and thorax grayish brown. 



