GELECHIAD^E. 
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oblique ; dark grey minutely speckled whitish ; an elongate dark 
fuscous blotch along costa from | to edged anteriorly by a rather 
oblique black streak sometimes preceded by ochreous-whitish, and 
beneath by a black streak to |- interrupted at middle representing 
or including discal stigmata, these edged brownish beneath and 
space between them sometimes whitish; an obtusely angulated 
whitish transverse shade at | more or less indicated ; beyond this a 
black dash to apex, interrupted just before apex, sometimes edged 
brownish beneath: cilia light grey, a basal series of blackish dots 
and blackish median line. Hind wings apex slenderly and acutely 
produced; light grey, paler and bluish-tinged in disc; cilia pale 
grey. 
Texas, Tort Davis (5000 feet), Alpine (5000-8000 feet), March- 
May, November ; 30 ex. 
Gnorimoscliema lectulifera, n. sp. 
(S . 13-16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish, median area of crown 
greyish or infuscated. Antennae whitish-ochreous ringed grey, 
apical fourth grey with live equidistant whitish rings. Palpi 
ochreous-whitish, second joint tinged greyish, second and terminal 
joints each with basal and supramedian dark fuscous bands. Thorax 
pale greyish-ochreous, shoulders and median area suffused grey. 
Torewings elongate, apex pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; 
whitish-ochreous partially tinged or suffused light greyish-ochreous; 
costal edge tinged blackish at base ; an elongate blackish costal 
patch from to |, not reaching quite half across wing, anterior 
edge oblique, its lower edge with black marks before and beyond 
middle edged beneath with small greyish-ochreous spots frepre- 
senting discal stigmata), posterior edge somewhat shorter, direct; 
plical stigma indistinct, greyish-ochreous, rather before first discal, 
in one specimen minute blackish dots on fold at | and middle ; an 
indistinct whitish slightly bent transverse line at |, beyond this a 
slender black streak running to apex, interrupted before apex : cilia 
ochreous-grey-whitish, on costa suffused grey, on termen basal half 
irrorated grey, at apex a median dark line. Hindwings grey, in 
disc lighter and bluish-tinged, on costal area and terminal edge 
darker grey ; cilia light grey. 
Texas, Fort Davis and Alpine, 5000 feet, March, April; 2 ex. 
Phthorimaea brackenridgella Busck. 
cT $ . 12-13 mm. Head, thorax dark grey speckled grey- 
whitish, face grey-whitish. Antennae rather dark fuscous. Palpi 
grey speckled whitish, second and terminal joints each with narrower 
basal and broader supramedian dark bands. Torewings elongate, 
apex pointed, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; grey-whitish, 
closely irrorated dark grey (apex of scales dark), here and there 
slightly tinged brown; two oblique series of three cloudy dark 
fuscous spots each from costa near base and at l to fold, second 
terminated by plical stigma, space between and round them 
