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TOETEICID^. 
Nova Scotia, from Lieut. Redman^s collection. I also met witli this species, at the 
beginning of June ]872, in Southern Oregon. 
Nearly allied to P. muricana, of which it may he 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 oixtwardly 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 tow^ards the apex : several 
vexy short oblique whitish costal streaks, prolonged in blue lines towards the upper edge of 
the pale ocellated patch, of which the inner half is sufl^used 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, Wall-. Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 385. 
Face and palpi white ; head yellowish above ; antennse 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, Avith the costa rounded at the base, straight 
beyond ; the apex falcate — orangc-ochreous, with a dark ferruginous basal patch occupying 
rather more than the dorsal half of the wing, and extending about one third along the dorsal 
margin, completely sui'rounded by a diff'used 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 cj • 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 
