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cinereous fringes interrupted with white behind and at the apex. 

 The third feather has long cinereous fringes interrupted with white 

 at the apex, and there is a cluster of dark scales slightly beyond 

 the middle in the fringe of the hind margin. 



Habitat. Shasta County, California. Early stages and food 

 plant unknown. 



TRICHOPTILUS OCHRODACTYLUS. 

 Trichoptilus ochrodactylus Fish, Can. Ent., Vol. XHL, p. 142 (1881). 



Expanse of wings, 17 mm. Head and anterior part of the 

 thorax pale ochreous. Antennae with a longitudinal brown line 

 above, bordered by a fine white line on each side, pale ochreous 

 beneath. Posterior part of thorax and abdomen light cream color, 

 the latter nearly pure white beneath. Legs white, striped longi- 

 tudinally with pale brownish ochreous ; posterior tibiae with a 

 band of raised ochreous scales before each pair of spurs. Fore 

 wings pale ochreous, approaching to cream color, with a very light 

 brownish tinge on the first lobe. A minute brown spot at the 

 base of the first lobe reaches from the end of the fissure half way 

 to the costa. Costal fringe of the first lobe brownish ochreous, 

 with a longitudinal white spot at the basal third, another at the 

 outer third and a smaller one just before the apex. Fringe of the 

 fissure ochreous and tinged with brown just beyond the middle, 

 and there are some white hairs near the apices. Fringe of hind 

 margin pale ochreous, with a white patch near the middle of the 

 second lobe, beyond which the fringe is rather dark brownish, 

 with a streaklet of white near the apex. Hind wings pale brown, 

 with the fringes slightly paler. The third feather has a cluster of 

 dark-brown scales in the hind fringe, just beyond the middle, and 

 a row of club-shaped white scales extends from this to the base 

 of the wing. 



Habitat. Texas. Early stages and food plant unknown. 



TRICHOPTILUS LOBIDACTYLUS. 



Pterophorus lobidactylus Fitch, N. Y. Rep., Vol. I., p. 848 (1854). 

 Aciptilus californicus Wlsm., Pter. Cal, and Ore., p. 60, PI. II., 

 fig. 9 (1880). 



Expanse of wings, 17-20 mm. Head grayish brown, with a 

 white line over each eye ; palpi whitish, touched with brown on the 

 outside of the second segment, with a long, slim tuft at the outer 

 end beneath, of nearly the same size and length as the slim outer 



