72 TOETRICID.E. 



paler : underside greyisli fuscous ; the eostal margins of both wings dotted with fuscous. 

 1 (^ . Expanse of wings 21 millims. 



On Crooked l\lver^ near Klamath Lakes, Southern Oregon, towards the end of Sep- 

 tember 1871. 



Steganoptycha purpuriciliana. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 2.) 



Palpi small : head, palpi, and antennae creamy white. Fore wings — twice as long as wide, 

 the costa slightly arched ; the apical margin rather oblique, scarcely indented — creamy white, 

 speckled with greyisli fuscous on the basal half, which is obliquely margined with bluish 

 fuscous, extending over the apical half of the wing, with the exception of a creamy wbite 

 costal triangle, from which some shining steel-blue and silvery streaks running to the anal 

 angle enclose the nearly obsolete ocellated spot : cilia purple, with a reddish ferruginous line 

 along their base. Hind wings greyish, sligbtly paler towards the tips, with a slender pale 

 line along their base. 4^,1 ? . Expanse of wings 14 millims. 



Mount Shasta, California, August 1871. 



PHOXOPTERYX, TV, 



Phoxopteryx discigerana. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 3.) 



Grapholita discigerana, Walk. Cat. Le/p. Het. xxviii. p. 384. 



metamelana, Walk. Cat. Lej). Het. xxviii. p. 385, and xxxv. p. 1795. 



Auchylopera spiresefoliana, Clem., Orote Si' Roh. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 84. 



Head and antennae brownish, the palpi white, with the apical joint scarcely exposed. 

 Fore wings — with the costa arched, the apex produced and falcate — white, with a conspicuous 

 roddish-brown patch along the dorsal margin, gradually widening from the base to the middle, 

 obliquely margined externally ; beyond it is a costal streak of the same colour, running 

 parallel to its oblique outer margin, blending with a faint ferruginous shade beyond the 

 middle of the wing : three small dark brown (almost fuscous) triangular oblique costal 

 dashes, each followed by a minute streak of the same colour, blend into a pale ferruginous 

 grey shade, containing two black streaks, which follows the apical margin to the anal angle 

 and dorsal margin : there is a conspicuous triangular brownish-fuscous spot at the apex, and 

 a minute line below it, dividing the cilia, which are white, with a slender line along their base. 

 Hind wings very pale grey or cinereous. Type (^ . Expanse of wings 15 millims. 



Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman^s collection. 



There are two species under the above name in the British-Museum collection. The 

 first two specimens of the series are undoubtedly G. discoferana, Walk. ; the last three only 

 are P. discigerana. Messrs. Grote and Robinson (Insect Tracts N. America, vol. i.) hold that 

 G. discigerana, Walk., is identical with " Anchylopera " spireafoliana , Clem., and consider 

 G. discoferana, Walk., a synonym of A. dubiana, Clem. I should have been disposed to refer 

 the two upper specimens and G. discoferana to spirecefoliana, Clem., and to maintain the 



