N0.1567. NEW AMERICAN TINEID MOTHS— WALSINGHAM. 209 



Forewings grayish brown through a profuse (histmg, amounting to 

 an ahnost entire suffusion of this color upon a pale cinereous ground; 

 the only marking indicated is a slight and obscure transverse shade at 

 two-fifths from the base and a reduplicated brownish fuscous spot 

 at the end of the cell ; cilia pale grayish brown. 



Alar expanse. — 13-14 mm. 



Hindwing,s sliming, purplish gray; cilia yellowish brown. 



Ahdomen shining, brownish gray. 



Legs pale yellowish brown. 



Type. — Male, No. 90433, Mus. Walsingham; paratype male, Cat. 

 No. 10669 U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Shasta County (Hatchet Creek), California, July 14-17. 

 1871 (Walsingham, collector.) Five s])ecimens. 



CATACRYPSIS FLUXELLA Zeller. 



Blastohasis (?) fluxella Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wicn, XXIII, 1873, pp. 



301-302.— Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 131.— Riley, Smith 



List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 104, No. 5565. 

 Holcocera fluxella Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, No. 5971. 



Tyj)e. — Male, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Hahitaf. — Bosque County, Texas, October 11, 1876 (Belfrage, col- 

 lector) . 



Zeller described this species from a single male without notched 

 antennse, and with broader hindwings and palpi three or four times 

 as long as those of aiifugella Zeller. 



B. ( ?) fluxella can not therefore be referred to either Holcocera or 

 Pigritia. I have a single male (33096), collected by Belfrage in 

 Texas, which exactly agrees with Zeller's description, and having 

 vein 5 of the hindwings out of the stalk of 3 and 4 proves the s])e- 

 cies to belong to Cafacrypsis. 



CATACRYPSIS MORRISONI, new species. 



Antennae with moderate pecten; pale brownish ocherous. 



Palpi brownish ocherous. 



Head and thorax grayish brown, with paler speckling. 



Forewings rather narrow, elongate, not widening outwardly; bone- 

 white, with grayish brown suffusion, especiall}^ around the margins; 

 a brownish shade at the base of the costa, a darker streak in the basal 

 third of the fold, difl"used and diluted to the flexus; beneath it a tri- 

 angular brownish fuscous dorsal patch, arising a little before the mid- 

 dle, directed obliquely outward and ending obtusely on the cell at 

 about half the wing length; beyond it a, pair of brownish fuscous spots 

 at the end of the cell and a few ill-defined similar spots around the 

 apex and termen; cilia grayish brown. 

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