(EDEMATOPHOKUS. 37 



Head, thorax, and palpi whitish cinereous, the latter 

 touched with fuscous at the sides. 



Fore wings whitish cinereous, paler at the base, dusted 

 towards the costa and slightly also on the dorsal 

 margin with fuscous scales ; a rather conspicuous 

 whitish spot lies at the base of the fissure, 

 usually margined on its inner edge by a few 

 fuscous scales ; another whitish spot is some- 

 times faintly indicated before the middle of the 

 dorsal margin. The cilia of the apical margin 

 and within the fissure are cinereous, tinged with 

 fuscous, with a few whitish streaklets inter- 

 spersed. 



The hind wings are pale cinereous; the body whitish. 



The third pair of legs white, with two subfuscous 

 annulations. 



Expanse 25 millims. 



Several specimens, taken July 26th, 1871, on Pit 

 River, California. 



(Edematophoras occidentalis, sp. uov. 



(PLITE II. FIGS. 13, 14.) 



VAR. a. Capite et thorace dilute subochraceis, cervice 

 et palpis cervinis. 



Alis anticis dilute subochraceis, apud cost am cermno 

 adumbrates, macula ante fssuram ccrvina alteri 

 costali oblique connem, cilns et alls posticis 

 dilute sericcO'Cercinis. 



