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This species was first named ceriferella Walsin<:;ham MS., but as 

 aeriferella Clemens is by a typoo;rapliical error catalogued as ceriferella 

 H. Edwards, Bull. U. S. National Museum No. 35, p. 132 (1889), the 

 new species is now published as ceriferx Walsingham. 



LITHOCOLLETIS LEUCOTHORAX, new species. 



Antenna:' pale saffron. 



Palpi white. 



Head pale saffron ; face white. 



Forewings pale saffron, the extreme costa whitish from the base, 

 with two very oblique, shining, whitish costal streaks tending outward, 

 the first at the middle, the second beyond it, and two much shorter 

 streaks in the costal cilia pointing inward — all anteriorly dark- 

 margined; on the dorsum are three very conspicuous, broad, white 

 streaks, tending obliquely outward, the first and second before the 

 middle, the third beyond it — these are all also anteriorl}^ margined 

 with ferruginous, the ferruginous shades bent outward about the mid- 

 dle of the wing, giving them an angulated appearance ; cilia shining, 

 safl'ron, a small blackish apical dot and a dark line running from it 

 through the cilia toward the tornus. 



Alar expanse. — 8.5 mm. 



Hindvnngs whitish gray; cilia pale grayish. 



Abdomen tinged with saffron; anal tuft grayish. 



Legs, hind tibiae yellowish white, very faintly spotted. 



T^^^^'.— Female. " Cat. No. 10354, U.S.N.M. 



Hahitat. — Santa Cruz Mountains, California (A. Koebele, collector). 

 Unique. (Walsingham determined. No. 4976, 190G.) 



There is no record of the life history. 



LITHOCOLLETIS BIFASCIELLA Chambers. 



LithocoUetis bifasdella Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 101-2, 

 119, 153.— Packard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Int. Ent. Comm. Bull., VII, 1881, 

 p. 54. — Hagen (and Frey), Papilio, IV, 1884, p. 151. — Walsingham, Insect 

 Life, II, 1884, pp. 24, 119; III, 1891, p. 329.— Packard, U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Kept. Ent. Coram., V, 1890, p. 219.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bnr. Am., 

 1891, p, 108, No. 5839.— Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat, Mus,, No. 52, 1902, p. 556, 

 No. G329. 

 Antennse grayish fuscous, faintly barred with ocherous. 

 Palpi shining silvery white. 



Head pale ocherous above, reddish brown at the sides; face shin- 

 ing silvery white. 



Thorax rich reddish brown. 



Forewings sliining, rich reddish brown, with shining silvery white 

 markings; a slightly oblique fascia near the base, further from the 

 base on the costa than on the dorsum, a second parallel fascia at 

 about the middle, both with a few dark scales on their outer sides; 

 a small costal streak before the apex, preceded by another on the 



