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the other. Fringes of second lobe gray, dark outwardly except at 

 the apex, where they are white with two black dots. Hind wings 

 brownish gray ; fringes dark gray, with a clear fine line at their 

 base and around the apex of the first two feathers. 



Habitat. Texas. Early stages and food plant unknown. 



STENOPTILIA COLORADENSIS, n. s. 



Expanse of wings, 17-24 mm. Head and front half of thorax 

 dark ashy gray ; hind part of thorax much lighter towards the 

 abdomen, which is ashy gray above and lighter beneath. A fine 

 whitish longitudinal line occurs on each side of the head, over the 

 eyes. 



Fore wings with a dark-brown stripe along the costa, which 

 widens outwardly to include the whole of the first lobe, which is 

 more or less sprinkled with white scales, especially on the middle 

 of the wing and at the base and near the end of the first lobe, the 

 two latter forming two more or less defined oblique white stripes, 

 the outer one of which is much more oblique and narrower than 

 the one above the end of the fissure. Hind half of the wing much 

 lighter, with a somewhat indistinct brown spot on the middle of 

 the cell and another just within the end of the cleft. Fringes 

 brownish, with a sub-basal darker line. Hind wings and fringes 

 grayish brown. 



Early stages and food plant unknown. 



Described from four examples from Colorado. 



ORNEODID^E. 



This family is not so closely related to the Pterophoridse as was 

 supposed by the early entomologists, and is introduced here merely 

 because there is only a single species known in this country; and, 

 as it is placed near the Pterophoridae in collections, generally, it 

 may be convenient to treat of it here. 



M\\ Meyrick has given the following characters : 

 Ocelli distinct. Tongue developed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. 

 Fore wings six-cleft, cell very short, vein 5 absent, 7 separate, 8 

 and 9 coincident. Hind wings six-cleft, cell very short, 5 absent, 

 7 out of 6 near origin, 8 free. 



GENUS ORNEODES Latr., Free. d. Car., p. 148 (1796). 



Labial palpi long, obliquely ascending, second segment tufted, 

 third segment long and slim. Veins 5, 6, 9 and 10 wanting in 

 the fore wings. 



