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OXYPTILUS NINGORIS. 



Oxyptilus ningoris Wlsm., Pter. Cal. and Ore., p. 26, PI. II., 

 fig. 6 (1880). 



Expanse of wings, 15 to 20 mm. Head and thorax dark gray- 

 ish brown. Palpi clothed with close scales, second segment 

 untufted. Antennae brownish, dotted with white above. Abdo- 

 men grayish white at the base, brownish fuscous beyond, with 

 three pairs of slender white streaks diverging from the front to the 

 back of each of the anterior segments ; beyond them crossed by 

 lines of whitish scales. Legs white and banded with brownish 

 fuscous. 



Fore wings dull grayish brown, sprinkled with whitish scales 

 along the costa, with two oblique white stripes across the lobes 

 and a small white spot at the end of the fissure, connected with 

 the first oblique stripe by the white of the fringes, which beyond 

 this are brownish, except on the outer end of the costa of the first 

 lobe and in the concave outer border of the second lobe, where 

 they are white. There is also an inconspicuous white spot on the 

 basal fourth of the hind margin, and a similar ill-defined spot near 

 the middle of the wing. Hind wings brownish fuscous, the first 

 feather barred with white beneath and the third feather widely 

 barred with white and with blackish scales in the fringe on both 

 sides towards the outer end. Six specimens examined. 



Habitat. California, Oregon. Early stages and food plant 

 unknown. 



OXYPTILUS TENUIDACTYLUS. 



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

 Oxyptilus nigrociliatus Zeller, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII., 



p. 322 (1873). 

 Oxyptilus nigrociliatus Wlsm., Pter. Cal. and Ore., p. 31, Plate 



II., fig. 8 (1880). 

 Oxyptilus delavaricus Forbes, 3d 111. Rep., p. 91, Plate X., fig. 2 



(1885). 

 Oxyptilus nigrociliatus Saund., In). Ins., p. 314, figs. 326-7 (1889). 



Expanse of wings, 12 to 15 mm. Head and thorax dark tawny 

 brown, with a tinge of coppery red ; posterior part of the thorax 

 white. Palpi ascending, reaching above the top of the head, 

 slender, not tufted. Antennae black, dotted with white above. 

 Abdomen of the same color as the wings, with two diverging 

 white lines on the top of the third segment, and the fifth strongly 



