74 TOETRICID.E. 



Nova Scotia, from Liciit. Redman's collection. I also met with this species, at the 

 beginning- of Jnuc 1872, in Southern Oregon. 



Nearly allied to P. muricana, of which it may be the Western representative form ; but it 

 wants the beautiful steel-blue at the base of the wing, and is generally a plainer and less 

 distinctly marked species. 



Phoxopteryx muricana. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 6.) 



Palpi short, whitish, the apical point almost concealed : head and patagia pale ferru- 

 ginous : antennae slightly darker ; thorax purplish grey. Fore wings — the costa arched ; 

 apex falcate — with the basal portion (nearly half) steel-blue towards the costa, blending into 

 reddish brown outwardly along the dorsal margin, bounded on the dorsal half by a whitish 

 oblique patch, and on the costal half by a reddish-brown or ferruginous ill-defined fascia, 

 which is connected on its outer edge with a ferruginous shade towards the apex : several 

 very short oblique whitish costal streaks, prolonged in blue lines towai'ds the upper edge of 

 the pale ocellated patch, of which the inner half is suffused with shining steel-blue ; there is 

 a shining silvery line at the base of the pale ochreous cilia. Hind wings brownish fuscous ; 

 cilia paler. Type $ . Expanse of wings 10 millims. 



Beginning of May 1871, Washington. 



Phoxopteryx divisana. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Grapholita divisana, WaVi. Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 385. 



Face and palpi white ; head yellowish above ; antennae missing in the type, but in 

 another specimen yellowish white ; thorax ochreous in front, dark reddish brown above. 

 Fore wings — nearly three times as long as wide, with the costa rounded at the base, straight 

 beyond; the apex falcate — orange-ochreous, with a dark ferruginous basal patch occupying 

 rather nnore than the dorsal half of the wing, and extending about one third along the dorsal 

 margin, completely surrounded by a diffused band of bright lilac, reaching to the costa above 

 it and nearly halfway along the dorsal half of the wing : beyond this the costa is shaded with 

 bright ferruginous, blending with an almost orange yellow below it : there are some minute 

 yellowish-white specks along the costa^ and two or three minute streaks before the apex, 

 which is bright ferruginous ; a small dark ferruginous dash lies along the base of the cilia 

 below it. Abdomen grey. Hind wings pale greyish, with ochreous cilia. Type ^ . Expanse 

 of wings 13 millims. 



Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Phoxopteryx cometana. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 8.) 



Palpi sharp and pointed, greyish fuscous, paler beneath ; head greyish fuscous ; antennae 

 fuscous. Fore wings — three times as long as wide, the apex falcate — fuscous ; with some 



