NE W A M ERICA N TINE ID MO THS— WA LSINGHA M 219 



1871: Shasta Count}^, Hatchet Creek, Jul}^ 14-17, 1871: Bear Creek, 

 July 27-28, 1871: Siskiyou County, Mount Shasta, August 2-Sep- 

 tember 1, 1871. Seventj'-three specimens (Walsingham, collector). 



The color of the forewings is somewhat variable; in some specimens 

 the darker sprinkling gives a suffused appearance beyond the middle 

 and is condensed in two obscure marginal spots on either side of the 

 tornus, but in the majority this brownish sprinkling is evenly dis- 

 tributed over the ^ving surface and no markings are apparent. In 

 other specimens the ground color becomes almost white and the 

 darker sprinkling is unimportant. 



I first met with this species in the middle of June, 1871, on the 

 borders of Mendocino and Lake counties, California, where I took 

 specimens flying among plants of Eriodycteon glutinosum; on the 

 same plant I found bladder-like galls produced by a larva, apparently 

 mining in the midrib. The gall occupied nearly the whole width of 

 the leaf, which was curled up at the sides and at the end by contrac- 

 tion. On opening these galls a small elongate-ovate and rather 

 flattened cocoon was found ; from these the moths continued to emerge 

 up to the middle of July. More specimens were met with at the end 

 of July and the beginning of August on the borders of Shasta and 

 Siskiyou counties; it is certainly abundant where it occurs. 



I am indebted to the late Professor Bolander, of San Francisco, for 

 the determination of the plant. 



Genus STAGM ATOPHORA Herrieh-Schaeffer. 



Stagmatophora Herrich-Schaeffer, Syst. Beschr. Schmett. Eur., V, 1853, p. 49, 

 No. 87; VI, 1853, expl. of pi. vii. — Staudinger and Rebel, Oat. Lep. Eur., 

 Pt. 2, 1901, p. 188, No. 405.— Walsingham and Durrant, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 XLII, 1906, p. 196-7. 



STAGMATOPHORA SEXNOTELLA, Chambers. 



Gelechia sexnotella Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geo. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 88. — Hagen, 

 Papilio, IV, 1884, p. 99.— Riley, Smith List. Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 102, 

 No. 5482. 



Movipha sexnotella Busck, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, X, 1902, p. 97-98. — Dyar. 

 Bull. U. S. N. Mus., No. 52, 1902, p. 543, No. 6168. 



Antennse brownish fuscous, with a small white spot at the end of 

 the basal joint. 



Palpi cream-white, the terminal joint biannulate with brownish 

 fuscous. 



Head white. 



Thorax bro^^^lish fuscous. 



Forewings rather shining, brownish fuscous, with shining white 

 markings; a rather outwardly obliciue costal streak, from near the 

 base, reaching over the fold but not to the dorsum, a medic-costal 



