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SYNOPSIS or THE SPECIES. 



( Fore wings with ground color whitish, 2. 



1 Fore wings with ground color ochreous, brown or gray, . 6. 



{Fore wings without markings or terminal dots, . . perlellns. 

 Fore wings with markings or terminal dots, .... 3. 

 Fore wings with a longitudinal reddish stripe near the middle, 



girardellus. 

 3. xj Fore wings with a terminal and a subterminal row of black 



dots, turbalellus. 



Without these characters, 4. 



Subterminal line slightly curved, elegans. 



Subterminal line strongly angulated, 5. 



Median line widest on the hind margin, . . . pusionellus. 

 Median line not reaching the hind margin, . . . albelius. 



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f Fore wings with a white stripe from base to middle or be- 



6. -s yond, 7. 



> Fore wings without such stripe, 28. 



The median white stripe wide and crossed by two oblique 



bars, 8. 



The median white stripe not crossed by two oblique bars, . 9. 

 The inner bar on the middle of the wing, . . . myellus. 

 The inner bar beyond the middle of the wing, . luctiferellus. 

 Median stripe extended to terminal line, but divided out- 

 wardly, ......... dimidiatellus. 



] Median stripe extended undivided to terminal line, unistriatellus. 

 ^ Median stripe not reaching terminal line, . . . .10. 



( Stripe divided into costal and subcostal stripes, . . .11. 

 ( Stripe not divided, 15. 



{Hind wings pure white, multilineellus. 

 Hind wings not pure white, 12. 



r Apex of fore wing strongly acuminate, . . . minimellus. 

 \ Apex of fore wing not strongly acuminate, . . . .13. 

 j Terminal dots preceded by black lines, . . . laqueatellus. 

 1 Terminal dots not preceded by black lines, . . . .14. 

 Outer border notched on vein 6, .... dumetelhis. 

 Outer border straight or nearly so, ... agitatcllus. 

 r Median stripe with a tooth near middle of costal edge, 

 15. j carpenter ellus. 



\- Median stripe without a costal tooth, ..... 16. 



