NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS OF THE SUPERFAMILYTINEINA FROM FLORIDA. By August Busck,U. S. Department of Agriculture. I am indebted to Dr. Harrison G. Dyar for placing in my hands forrearing and determination his interesting collections of Tineina fromPalm Beach, Florida, secured during January, February, and March,1900.Nearly all were taken in the larval state and reared by him or l)}'^the writer, or by us both.The food plants were determined by Mr. F. Kinzel, of Palm Beach.The following species, I believe, are new to science. All the typeshave been deposited in the U. S. National Museun.Family GELECHIID^. r ARISTOTELIA Hllbner.ARISTOTELIA IV^, new species.(Plate I, fig. 1.)Antennse f,' finely serrated, dark fuscous, annulated with white.Laljial palpi ver}^ long, curved, second joint thickened with appressedscales, yellow with three black bars on outside; apical joint longerthan second, acute, yellow with two black bars. Face, head, andthorax light brownish gra}^ with a dark fuscous, central, longitudinalline on head and thorax; tegulfe dark brown. Forewings with themarkings of A. roseosiijfmella Clemens, but with different coloration.Ground color light silvery drab, on the outer half freely dusted withwhite and black scales; from costa two dark brown, nearly black,Imnds reaching the fold; the first from base of costa obliqueW out- 'This abbreviation, with others here used, is adopted from Meyrick's Handbookof British Lepidoptera (1895), London and New York.Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIII?No. 1208.Proc. N. M. vol. xxiii 15 225 226 PROCEEDINGS OE THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.ward, narrowing- to a point; the other from basal third eurvesoutward and upward to a point after having- reached the fold.These .spots are narrowly margined with silvery yellow. A thirdindistinct, triangular, costal, light-brown spot has this marginationwider and is followed b)^ a small whitish spot. Tip of wing- l)lack;cilia drab with a bunch of dark hairs in the middle. Hind-wingsunder 1, trapezoidal, apex produced, termen emarginate, dark gray,cilia silvery yellow. Legs yellow, on the outside barred with black.Venation.?Fore-wings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 6 separate.^Hind-wings: 8 veins, all separate.Alar expansion, 11.2 to 11.8 mm.Very near A. 'roseosuffttseUa Clemens, but larger and without anytrace of red coloration.Described from 6 females, reared from Ivdffutoiccn.s, c(jllected l)yDr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. 4932, U.S.N.M.The larva when full grown is about 12 nun. long, very active, slen-der, dark purple, with 8 white wavy, interrupted, longitudinal lines;underside dark green; head j^ellow, with l)lack eye-spots; it feeds ina slight web among the leaves. Moth issued March lU-20.APROAEREMA Durrant=ANACAM PSIS (Curtis) Meyrick.APROAEREMA CROTOLARIELLA, new species.(Plate I, fig. 2.)Antennae |, sligntly serrated, ])luish ))lack, with a thin, white, lon-gitudinal line on basal third. La})ial palpi long, slender, smooth,curved; second joint somewhat thickened, third joint a little longerthan second, pointed; ])luish black; second joint with apex white, thirdwith three thin, white, longitudinal lines. Tongue moderate, scaled.Head, face, and thorax uniformly bluish l)lack. Fore-wings bluishblack, with sparse lighter blue metallic scales intermixed, especiallytoward apex; cilia dark gray. Hind-wings gray, with purple reflec-tions, cilia 2. Abdomen black, with purple reflections; legs bluishblack, with tarsi anntdated with white.Venatifm.?Fore-wings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, out of 7. Hind-wings: 8 veins, 2 and 3 connate, 6 approximate to -i, and 7 longstalked; apex produced, termen sinuate.Alar expansion 8.2 to 8.8 nun. ' Lord Walsingham, in his West Indian Microlepdoptera (Proc. Zool. Soc, London,Jan., 1897, p. 66), has ])]aced A. roseosuffusella Clemens eind A. pn(III)uri'iii>(l((^ collected ])\ Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. 4983, U.S.N.M."^The larva, which in early stage mines and later ties the leavestogether, is prettily marked; when full grown it is a])out G mm. long,cylindrical, yellowish white, with head concolorous; thoracic shieldyellow with two dark-l^rown lateral spots; each of the following seg-ments with two indistinct rc^ldish dorsal spots and two very distinctdarker reddish-bi'own lateral spots, forming altogether four longitu-dinal rows of spots. Pupation takes place in a slight web among theleaves. GNORIMOSCHEMA new genus.(Type, Gelerlild (jaUiimlidaijinis Riley. ) Antenna? simple. Labial palpi; second joint large with a well-developed furrowed brush beneath; terminal joint shorter than second,more or less thickened wdth scales, laterally compressed, front sharp,sometimes slightl}- serrate, with thin scale projection above the tip.Maxillar}" palpi obsolete. Tongue moderate, scaled at base.Anterior wings narrow, elongate, somewhat sinuate below^ apex,which is bent slightly downward.Posterior mngs a little broader than anterior wings; costa deflecteddownward from the middle of the wing; apex produced, termen sin-uate, tornus rounded, dorsal edge straight.Yenation.?Forewings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, the rest separate.Hindwings: 8 veins, 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximate to 4, 6 and 7parallel.The parallel veins 6 and 7 in hind wing and the thickened thirdjoint of labial palpi separates this genus, to which several describedAmerican species belong, from Gelechia, from which it is derived.I make gall(moll(lagin is Riley the type because it is the largest andbest-known species at present descri])ed.GNORIMOSCHEMA TERRACOTTELLA new species.(Plate I, lig. 3.)AntennjB f, finely serrated, black, with white anmdations, Lal>ialpalpi white; second joint with divided ]>rush beneath; tliird shorterthan second, with one black annulation just before apex. Face, headand thorax white, shoulders reddish brown. Forewings reddishbrown; costa w^hite, with two lobes of white reaching down to fold, thefirst narrow, pointed obliquely outward, the other large, triangular.At beginning of cilia is a costal white spot and opposite it a dorsal one.On the fold bej'ond the middle is a small white dot. The intervalbetween the white lobes and spots, as well as the apical part of wing, 228 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm.is freely dusted with black and purple scales. Cilia 3^cllow, dustedwith black, Hindwings purplish gray, cilia with yellowish tinge.Abdomen white with rust-red shadings; underside and legs white;tarsi with black annulations.Venation.?Forewings: 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked. Hindwings:termen sinuate, apex produced, 8 veins, 3 and 4 connate, and 7parallel.Alar expanse, 10 mm.Described from 4 specimens, issued March 8 to 10, from Iva Imhri-cata, collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.ryy76^?No. 4934, U.S.N.M.The larv^a mines the thick, fleshy leaves, eating out irregular tracksor blotches, and pupates outside the mine (in nature probably in rub-bish on the ground) in a slight web. Larva is slender, cylindrical,white with dark-brown head and light-brown thoracic plate. Length,when full grown, about 10 mm.NEALYDA Dietz.Nealyda Dietz, Entomol. News, Phila., XI, 1900, pp. 350, 851.Dr. Dietz erected this genus on a single species, hifidella Dietz,collected in Colorado, an authentic specimen of which is before me.He places it in the Elachistida?, near Scythris, but it belongs undoubt-edly in the Gelechiidas.There are a few misconceptions in his characterization of the genus.The posterior tibite are hair}^, not smooth, and Dr. Dietz's explana-tion of the venation of the hindwing is in variance with his figure andnot <|uite correct. I would give it thus: Six veins, 5 and 6 absent,cell open between 4 and 7, 7 to apex, 2 and 3 remote out of 4. WhatDr. Dietz takes to be veins 5 and 6 are not true veins, Ijut folds, andit is not the costal, but the subcostal, (vein 7) which reaches nearl}^ tothe extreme apex.The genus is nearest Didactylota Walsingham (Plate 1, fig. 4), andbelongs to that group of Gelechiids in which the median vein systemof the nindwing is strongly developed at the expense of the middlepart of the wing.^ I suspect that Walsingham's Didactylota hicolor^from St. Vincent will be found to belong to this genus. * As will be seen by comparing the venation of Didactylota .vicUrnelbt "Walsinghamwith that of the D. kinkcreUa Snellen type of thegenuH (Tijdschrift voor Entomology,1876, pi. 1), it is really quite different from this and might well ])e separated gener-ically. The long, very different lal)ial palpi of sneUcnella also sliows that it only tem-porarily has found a place in that north Furopean genus. In fact, Nealyda seemsnearer the type of Didactylota than snellenella, but still I think the former genus iswell founded.2 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1891, p. 523. NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 229NEALYDA PISONI.^, new species.(Plate I, fig. 5.)Antenna? nearl}" |, simple, brown with black annulations. Labialpalpi second joint fu.scous, white at apex, teiminal joint black with awhite annulation around middle. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Face,head and thorax bright golden brown. Anterior wing very thicklyscaled; ground color concolorous with thorax, bright golden brown;one-third from base is a dark, rich, velvety brown, broad fascia,sharply defined on both sides, darkest, nearly black, and somewhatbroader at the dor.sal edge, where it terminates in slightly raised scales,projecting outside the edge of wing in a dorsal tooth, and forming inthe living insect at rest a curious hump on the back. This fascia isstill more thickh^ scaled than the rest of wing. A little more than theapical third of wing is densely dusted with black scales, which con-dense into four, all black, velvety spots, one large costal spot, one-third from apex reaching down to fold, one smaller apical, one moon-shaped at tornus, and a small round dot between the two latter. Thelast three are internally edged by light silvery scales forming an indis-tinct, thin, open V, with the point toward apex. Cilia very heav}^ andcut olf nearly perpendicular, giving the wing the appearance of beingvery ))road. This, together with the robust body, gives the moth a cer-tain resemblance to a Tortricid. Hindwings bilobed, three-fifths aswide as forewings, purplish grey with silvery reflections; cilia lighter.Abdomen dark purple with metallic reflections. Legs and undersideof thorax straw-yellow with sparse ]:)urple scales intermixed; tarsiblack with yellow annulations. Posterior tibite with long 3'ellow hairsabove.Alar expanse: male, 7 mm,; female, 8.2 mm.Descri)>ed from 2 specimens, reared February 2 and Februarj' 18,1900, from mines on Plson'm aculeata., collected by Dr. Dyar at PalmBea(-h, Florida.Type.?^o. 4935, U.S.N.M.Egg is laid at the midi'il) on the upper side of the leaf and the mineis a more or less irregular, large, trumpet-formod l)lotch on the uppersurface with the black frass s(;attered in the middle of the mine. Thelarva is, when full grown, cylindrical, somewhat flattened, stronglysegmented, and tapering l)ackward, about 7 mm. long. It has threepairs of normal thoracic feet, four pairs of abdominal feet suggestingthe toes of a tree frog, being very long and thin with a globularswelling at the end; while in the mine they are pointed ))ackward, flatto the body; no anal legs. Larva is white with light-brown head andthoracic plate; sutures in head darker brown. When mature it cutsits way out of the mine and spins nearby on the leaf a tough, oval,flat, white cocoon, from which the pupa does not protrude, when 230 PliOCEEDIXaS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.imago issues. Some of the larvie spun their (.-ocoons inside the niiiiv',but this is probal>ly not the rule under luitunil conditions. l\ip;istage lasted in warm room (approximateh' normal temperature forthe insect) about eighteen days.NEALYDA KINZELELLA, new species.Antennse f, finely serrate, dark fuscous with indistinct whitishannulations. Labial palpi yellowish brown with l)lack shadingsbeneath. Face and head light yellowish brown. Thorax light richbrown; basal half of forewing light brown, the color graduall}^becoming darker outwardly and terminating in a deep velvety brown,transverse fascia at middle of wing, on the outside edged with a thinline of white scales. The fascia is more thickly scaled than the rest ofthe wing and protrudes in a small dorsal scale tooth. Ground colorof apical half of wing silvery white, thickly suffused with black, fus-cous and bluish scales. An ill-defined group of dark scales at begin-ning of cilia is edged below with a few brown scales; another at apexalso has a few brown scales below; at tornus a nearly black spot.Entire apical edge nearly black; cilia silvery grey overlaid with blackatoms. Hindwings silvery grey. Abdomen purplish black; under-side silvery; legs light brown with black bars on the outside, tarsiwith black annulations.Alar expanse, 5.5 to 6.5 mm.Described from 5 specimens, reared from upper surface, trumpet-formed blotch mines on leaves of Pisonia ohtmata.Collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Tijpe.?m. ^936, U.S.N.M.This species is very near to the type of the genus, hifideUa Dietz,but besides minor colorational differences it is a much smaller insect.Egg is laid on upper side of leaf. Larva, when full grown, is 4.5mm. long; looks through the leaf like a Lithocolletis larva of the flattype. Also the mine might be mistaken for a Lithocolletis mine.Cocoon outside mine on leaf snow white, oval, flat, very denselyspun. Pupa not protruding when imago issues.I have named this species in honor of the botanist, Mr. F. Kinzel,to whom I am indebted for all but one of the plant identifications.ANACAMPSIS Curtis = TACHYTILIA (Heinemann)Meyrick.ANACAMPSIS LAGUNCULARIELLA, new species.(Plate I, fig. 6.)Antennae light brown with darker annulations. Labial palpi verylong, smooth, recurved; second joint thickened with appressed scales,deep black, apex light brown; third longer than second, yellowish I NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BVSCK. 231brown. Toiiouo moderate, sealed, blaek. P'aee, head, thorax, andforewino-8 yellowish 1)1-owmi with sparse, scattered, black scales.Extreme base of costa black; at middle of wing a triangular blackcostal spot, s(mietimes followed by a smaller indistinct collection ofblack scales at costa at apical third. Sometimes this latter is wanting;intervals between veins depressed, and in these depressions, one ineach, is a row of 4 to 6 small black dots around apex. Cilia ashyIn-own, with two indistinct, darker, transverse lines. Hindwings darkpur])lish grey. Cilia lighter. Abdomen and legs purplish black witha yellowish sheen; hairs on posterior til >ia yellow; tarsi with narrowyellow annulations.Alar expanse, 15 to 10 mm.Described from 10 specimens, reared by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach,Florida, from Lagimcularia racemosa, on which it ties the leaves.7]/j>..?No. 4937, U.S.N.M.Larva slender; when full grown about 13 mm. long; white, withdark-brown head, lighter mandibles, reddish first thoracic segmentand black thoracic plate. Warts small, black, emitting long whitehairs. ANACAMPSIS ARGYROTHAMNIELLA, new species.Antennse stone white with narrow black annulations. Labial palpivery long, smooth, recurved. Second joint thickened with appressedscales, stone white; third longer than second, light fuscous. Face andhead stone white. Thorax and forewing stone grey with scatteredblack atoms. Three white dots on disk, one at middle of wing belowthe fold, two above the fold farther outward. Just before apex an ill-defined, but quite distinct, outwardly angulated, white fascia. Ciliayellowish-grey. Abdomen grey, with silvery luster. Anal tuft yellow.Legs yellow^ish-grey. Forelegs with fuscous shadings and tarsi indis-tinctly annulated.Alar expanse, KJ mm.Described from specimens, reared l)y Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach,Florida, from Anjijrothaiunia Uodgettii.%>6.?No. 4938, U.S.N.M.Larva is a leaf tier; when full grown about 14 mm. long, greenishwhite with the ten piliferous warts on each segment shining black,emitting short dark hairs. Head and thoracic plate polished black,mandil)les reddish brown. 232 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.TRICHOTAPHE Clemens.TRICHOTAPHE MELANTHERELLA, new species.(Plate I, fig. 7.)Antenna? purplish brown. Labial palpi long, smooth, curved. Sec-ond joint thickened with appressed scales, third as long as second;shining dark purplish brown, extreme tip yellow. Face, head, andforewing unicolorous, deep purplish l)rown, nearly black, with a satinluster. Before middle of wing, near dorsal margin, is a short blackstreak, edged anteriorly and posteriorly with a few white scales. Atthe end of the cell is a small round l)lack dot, slightly edged posteriorlywith white; a scarcely perceptil^le, outwardly angulated, narrow fasciaof a paler shade at apical fourth terminates in a yellowish costalstreak. Cilia dark purple. Hindwing dark purplish gray; cilia ashade lighter.Venation.-?Forewing: 12 veins; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked.Hindwing: 8 veins, 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximate, 6 and 7 con-nate, discal vein nearly obsolete.A])domen purplish black, anal tuft yellow; legs silvery fuscous.Alar expanse, 12.5 to 13 mm.Described from 11 specimens from material collected by Dr. Dyarat Palm Beach, Florida. Food plant Melanthera deltoidea.Type.?^o. 4939, U.S.N.M.It is near T. juncidella Clemens.Larva when full grown is about 12 mm. long, very prettily marked.Front of head light brown, posteriori}- black. Next 5 joints richbrown, thoracic shield lighter brown, edged with black. First andsecond abdominal segments (the last two brown ones) with large trans-verse dorsal velvety black spot. Remaining segments green; seg-ments 7 and 8 (head counted as the first) with black semicircular lineacross pointing backward and reaching down to abdominal legs; alsoa short transverse black dorsal line behind the curved one; segment 9all black above; rest of segments with the l^lack predominating instreaks and dots. All legs black. It lives within a roomy fold madeof edge of leaf turned down or sometimes of an entire loaf of aboveplant.Imago issued during early March.TRICHOTAPHE CONDALIAVORELLA, new species.Antenna f tinel}' serrate, shining bronze. Labial palpi second jointsmooth, flattened laterally, considerably thickened toward apex withhairs above and below and cut off sharply at end?approaching thepalpi of Ypsolophus; third joint erect. Second joint deep l)la('k withapex light j^ellow, third joint fuscous. Face, head, thorax and ba.sal NO.120S. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 233half of costal edg-o of forewing- l)rowii. Forewing greenisli grav.thickly suffused with dark fuscous scales. Five indistinct dark fus-cous spots on disk, one on fold at onc-foui'th from l)asc, one above andone below fold in middle of disk and one above and one l)elow fold atend of disk; the latter smallest, but darker and more distinct. Atbeginning of costal cilia a very indistinct, doul)le, transverse, whitishV-,shaped line and along apical edge (! or T small black dots. Ilind-wing dark bluish gray with silvery reflections, half transparent, \cinsdarker, cilia gray.Abdomen purple; entire under side black; legs black; postci'iorti))i{i3 above yellowish.Venation.?Forewing: 12 veins; 2 and 8 stalked. Kindwing: 8veins, 3 and -4 short-stalked; 5 approximate, <> and 7 connate.Alar expanse, 16 mm.Described from two males and one female reared from ('(mdaliaferrea, collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. 4940, U.S.N.M.Dr. Dyar says:The larva at first stitches together any overlapping leaves of its food j)lant; laterit folds over a leaf, and finally pupates in such a folded leaf. The mature larva hasa reddish head with a whitish la]>rum; body somewhat flattened, green, with reddishcervical shield, a green dorsal and subdorsal line; tubercles and a lateral dash onjoints 3 and 4 black. Family CECOPIIORIDtF.DEPRESSARIA Haworth.DEPRESSARIA AMYRISELLA, new species.(Plate I, fig. S.)Antennre f finely serrate beneath, l)asal joint with pecten, darkmetallic greenish ])rown. Labial palpi second joint rough beneath,3'ell()wish white with ])lack base and black scales intermixed, towardapex with a rose or ])rick red tinge; terminal joint shorter, yellowishwith l>lack tip. Tongue well developed, whitish. Face yellow witha few brown scales; head with erect scales, yellow at base, pui-plishblack toward tip, tips reddish white. Thorax yellowish brown withviolaceous scales intermixed and with a transverse crest of six tufts ofraised scales. Forewing dark violaceous brown with sparse ])la(kscales; extreme dorsal base purplish black, at l)asal third a collectionof purplish-black scales; at end of cell a small round white dot, black-margined on ])oth sides. Costal and apical edge lighter l)rown, withfive costal and six to eight smaller apical black dots. Cilia yellowishbrown, llindwing light shining yellowish l)rown, edge blackish, cilialighter. It belongs to the section with veins 2 and 3 in forewing 234 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vm,. xxiii. stalked. Abdomen somewhat flattened, dark yellowi.sh brown. Looslight yellowish brown on the outside with purple scales intermixed.Alar expanse, 16 to IT mm.Described from 5 specimens, reared by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach,Florida, from Ann/risfloridmia.r?/7>.?No. 4041. U.S.N.M.According to Dr. Dyar '' the larva lives in a folded young leaf witha round hole at petiole, lined with silk." Head black, liody yellowish,cervical shield pale orange color. It pupates within the fold.Family BLASTOBASID^.BLASTOBASIS Zeller.(Type, (EcopJiora {Scythrii^) j'hycidella Zeller. ) BLASTOBASIS GUILANDIN^E, new species.(Plate I, fig. 9.)Antennae dark fuscous, basal joints yellowish; in the male stronglynotched beyond first joint, with pecten on this joint; shortly ciliatedin its entire length; in female simple, basal joint with pecten. Labialpalpi smooth, curved, slender, dark fuscous; tips somewhat lighter.Tongue stout, scaled at base, coiled at the end. Head and thorax yel-lowish fuscous; forewing dark fuscous with a somewhat lighter shadebefore apex and along costa. A small deep black spot on middle ofcell; two similar black spots at end of cell, one above the other; belowthese an indistinct blackish spot and similar indistinct 1)lackish spotsalong the apical edge. Cilia yellowish fuscous. Hindwing shiningyellowish fuscous.Abdomen shining dark fuscous; anal tuft yellow; underside whitish,speckled with dark fuscous. Legs yellowish with fuscous shadings onthe outside; hairs above posterior tibije ashy yellow.Venation.?Forewing: 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked. Hindwing: 7veins; 4 absent, 3 and 5 stalked, 6 and 7 parallel.Alar expanse, 14 mm.Described from 1 male and 1 female bred March 30, 1900, from stemsof Guilandina honducella ., collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach,Florida, March 5, 11?00.Typc.?^o. 4942, U.S.N.M.Larva is robust, white, with ])rown head and thoracic plate. Itbores in the stem and pupates outside in a slight web.There are two other species of true Bhu^tohas/.s in the collectedmaterial from Palm Beach, but not in sufficiently good condition todescribe. NEW SPECIES OF TTXFJD MOTITS?UVSCK. 285Family ELACHISTlDyE.COSMOPTERYX Hubner.COSMOPTERYX IPOMOEiE, new species.AntcniKv dark gTeenish brown with a thin, white, iong-itiidinal lineon basal half; the three last joints are white, the five following- ])lack,and the next joint (ninth from apex) is white. Labial palpi, shininggreenish black. Head and thorax dark greenish brown, nearly black,with one very faint central line white. Forewing unicolorous withhead and thorax. Beyond the middle is a broad, pale straw yellowfascia, slanting from costa outwards. This is preceded I)}' two bright-golden metallic spots, the costal one dark margined, and, on accountof the form of the fascia, nearer the base of wing than the dorsal one.On the other side of the fascia is another dark-edged golden costalspot, and right opposite, in the yellow fascia, a dorsal one; betweenthese the yellow fascia flows out in a bilobed process into the darkapical part of the wing.In the basal half of the wing are three very faint, thin, white longi-tudinal lines, all more or less interrupted, the central one l^eing themost distinct, and this is continvied on the other side of the fascia toapex as a more pronounced white streak. Cilia dark brown. Hind-wing dark brown, with green reflections; cilia lighter. Abdomenpurplish ])lack above, each segment edged with silver; anal tuft sil-very; underside silvery white.Posterior tibia black, with a longitudinal, winding, white line; tarsiblack with white tips.Alar expanse, 8 mm.Described from two specimens reared from Ipomcea leaves, collectedby Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida. ' Type.?lSiO. 4943, U.S.N.M.The mines were found numerously, together with Bedellla minorBusck (see p. 243), and is somewhat similar to these in appearance,consisting of clear, irregular blotches; Init is distinguished from themby short silk-lined galleries inside the mine, in which the larva retreatswhen disturbed.Larva is, when j^oung, white with yellow head and dark e3"espotsand mandibles; when mature it measures about 7 mm., and has threewine-red longitudinal stripes, one dorsal and two lateral, all rathernarrow.It pupates in an inconspicuous, matted, flat cocoon outside the mine.COSMOPTERYX NIGRAPUNCTELLA, new species.Antennie drab colored, l)asal half with a thin longitudinal whiteline, lighter, nearl}^ white, toward tip. The last joint is black, and 230 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.there are four small (two joints in each) l)lack annulations on apicalhalf. Labial palpi very long', light drab colored, with extreme tipsblack. Face whitish drab. Head drab, with a central, longitudinal,silvery line; thorax same color with three longitudinal, silvery lines.Forewing verj^ long and slender, twice as long as al)domen; basal halfconcolorous with head and thorax, with three longitudinal, white lines,of which only the upper two begin right from base. The rest of thewing- creamy white with a deep black, silver-edged dot at the end ofcell; a narrow costal and dorsal streak of drab form a thin fascia atapical fourth, and the costal edge of the tip is dral). Cilia light drab.Abdomen golden, legs silveiy drab.Alar expanse, 11 mm.A large and slender, very distinct species, described from a singlecaptured male specimen, collected by Dr. D3'ar at Palm Beach, Florida,in Januarv, 1900.Type.?^o. 4944, U.S.N.M.ANTISPILA Hubner.ANTISPILA EUGENIELLA, new species.Antennffi purplish black. Palpi, face, head, thorax and forewingshining dark purple; on middle of forewing a golden metallic fascia,narrow at the dorsal edge, three times as wide at costa. Cilia purplishblack. Hindwing dark gray with metallic reflections; abdomen darkpurple below, with silvery edging at each joint; legs dark purpleoutside, inside silvcr3^ Tarsi silver}' with purple annulations.Alar expanse, 3.8 mm.Described from a single specimen, bred February 25, 1900, fromEugenia sp., collected l)}^ Dr. D^-ar at Palm Beach, Florida.Tij2)e.?^o. 4945, U.S.N.M.Larva makes an upper blotch mine on leaves of Eugenia, and cutsout an oval case (3.5 by 2.8 mm.), which fulls to the ground.HOMALEDRA, ne^A^ genus.(Type, Homaledra heplathalnma Busck.)Antennne longer than forewing, stout, smooth, simple, scaled at base;basal joint enlarged, somewhat flattened, and with thick covering ofscales, projecting Ijackward. At rest they are kept alongside the bodyunder the wings. Laliial palpi with second joint very long, nearlystraight, porrected, smooth, thin at base, greatly thickened at apex,ending al)ruptly with projecting scales: terminal joint short, erect,smooth. Tongue scaled at base. Head elongated, face retreating.Anterior wings elongate ovate. Hindwing elongate ovate; cilia 2.Legs short; posterior tibiie clothed with long hairs a})ove.Veriation.?Forewiugs: Twelve veins; 7 and 8 connate or stalked, 7 NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 237to apex, Ic furcate. Hindwiiio's: p]io-ht veins; 8 se])urato, 7 separate,5 and stalked on independent vein from base, cell open between 4and 5. HOMALEDRA HEPTATHALAMA new species.(riatel, lig. 10.)Antenna? silvery yellow; ])a8al joint and the scaled base rust red.Labial palpi, second joint light straw colored, terminal rust red.Eyes deep black. Face whitish with an iridescent hue. Head andthorax straw 3^ellow, sides of head and shoulders rust red. Anteriorwing-s light straw j^ellow with a narrow edging round the entire wingof dark brown, outside which the extreme costal and apical edge andcilia is rust red. On middle of wings a longitudinal, large, conuna-shaped, silvery spot, and at the end of the disk a smaller, nearly circu-lar silver spot, both dark edged. There are, besides, three more orless pronounced longitudinal streaks of dark brown, one above andtwo below the silvery spots, and in some specimens even the veins areshown in brown; but in other specimens all these interior brownstreaks are obsolete, except right at the base of the wing.Dorsal cilia reddish yellow. Hindwings shining golden j^ellow;cilia a shade lighter. Abdomen golden yellow. Forelegs deep blackal)Ove; other legs whitish straw colored; hairs above posterior tibiarust yellow.Alar expanse, 19 to 26 mm.Described from 8 specimens bred from cabbage palmetto {Sah((lpalmetto) collected by Dr. Dyar and Mr. F. Kinzel at Palm Beach,Florida.Type.?^o. 4946, U.S.N.M.The larva is, when full grown, 15 to 18 mm. long, cylindrical, withnormally developed thoracic and al)dominal feet. Color white, withpolished head, reddish-brown mandibles and eye-spot, and rather long,sparse, white hairs.It feeds on the underside of the palmetto leaf in a fold, making avery unique chambered abode of its frass (or of the chewed epidermis)(Plate I, tig. 11). It begins by making a small elongate chamber andadds, as it grows, successively larger, more or less rectangular, thick-walled, commimicating rooms to its house, the entire length of whichis li to 2 inches, and which when tinished contains 7 (or sometimes 8)chambers; hence the name of the insect.It pupates inside its case, and the moth issues through a round holein the last chamber. This is different from the other chambers, beingrather loosely built. The other chambers are very firm, smoothlytinished outside, dark brown. The pupa is brown, very slender,antennie and wing-cases reaching only halfway down the abdomen.Pupa skin is not protruded at issue. 238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vbi.. xxm.The moth at rest sits pressed flat to its support, second joint ofhibial palpi and sides and ends of wings closely applied to it.The insect seems to be quite common where it is found, and onepalm leaf ma^^ contain several cases.The genus is given the character '"7 and 8 in forewing connate orstalked," so as to include the common palmetto feeder {Lavema)sahalcUa Chambers, which naturallv belongs here, and which has asimilar, although not so specialized, habit as heptaihalmna. Sabalellahas all the characters of the genus and di tiers only from the tj'pe inveins 7 and 8 being stalked, instead of connate. As it is a less special-ized and a smaller insect the characters are less pronounced, and Itherefore make the larger form the type of the genus.Family TINEID^.NEPTICULA Zeller.NEPTICULA CONDALIAFOLIELLA, new species.Face and head tufted, reddish vellow, e3^ecaps shining white. Antennaedark fuscous. Thorax and forewing deep black with purplish metallicreflections; just ])eyond the middle of wing is a transverse silverywhite fascia, a little broader on the dorsal margin than on the costal.Cilia at apex white; dorsal cilia light purplish-gray concolorous withhindwing. Abdomen black above, silvery below; anal tuft silverywhite. Legs reddish yellow.Alar expanse, 3.1 nun.Descri})ed from tliree specimens bred February 22, lOOO, from uppermines on leaves of Condalla fcvrea^ collected by Dr. Dyar at PalmBeach, Florida.Type.?'^o. 4047, U.S.N.M.Egg is deposited on underside of leaf near edge, and the mine is acontorted serpentine with black frass in a continuous central line.Cocoon is chestnut brown, 1.6 by 1 mm.Of the described American species it comes nearest A\ apiclalhellaChambers, the description of which ver}^ nearly agrees with this spe-cies. Chambers's measurement, /^ inch, and his type specimen inU. S. National Museum, shows, however, that (ipickdhdla is a largerspecies which has relativeh^ broader wings and broader fascia.NEPTICULA MYRICAFOLIELLA, new species.Antenna silvery fuscous, extreme tip white. Face and head tufted,light golden yellow. Eyecaps silvery white. Thorax and forewingdeep bluish black with strong metallic reflections. At two-thirds frombase is a transverse, silvery white fascia, a little broader on the dor-sal than on the costal edge. Dorsal cilia at the fascia white; rest of NO.1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 239 cilia diirk purplish t,n-ay. Hiiidwin.o- lioht gray. Abdomen shiningIjlack above, silvery below. Legs purplish. All tarsi white.Alar expanse, 2.8 mm.Descri])ed from two specimens, bred from upper serpentine mineson 2[yrka eerlfera, collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. 4948, U.S.N.M.LEUCOPTERA Hubner=CEM10ST0MA Zeller.LEtrCOPTERA ERYTHRINELLA, new species.Antenna- fuscous, nearly as long as forewing. Maxillary and laljialpalpi absent. Face," head, eyecaps and thorax shining pure white.Forewdng shining white; from middle of dorsal margin outward andupward to fold an oblique streak of sparse, fuscous scales, oppositewhich is a small indistinct costal streak of the same hue, together form-ing a V with the point toward apex. Three indistinct fuscous streakswilhin costal cilia and a large patch of somewhat darker fuscous scaleson the dorsal edge of the wing near apex. Cilia and hindwings purewhite; legs white with yellowish tarsi.Alar expanse, 5 to 5.2 mm.Type.?l^o. 4949, U.S.N.M.Described from five specimens, bred Fel)ruary 10 to 20, 1900, frommaterial collected by Dr. Dyar, at Palm Beach, Florida.Egg is laid on underside of leaves of Erythrina herhacea, and themine begins on the upper side as a short serpentine track, but soonl)roadens out in a large irregular blotch, often obliterating the earlypart of the mine. Frass black, scattered. When full grown the larvais 4.5 to 5 mm. long, cylindrical, somewhat flattened, tirst and secondthoracic segments enlarged, body tapering backward. Color white,with light-brown mandibles and two small black lateral spots on tirstthoracic segment.Pupates in ^'hammock" outside the mine on leaf in a glisteningwhite oblong cocoon spun under an equally showy white bridgeworkof longitudinal silken bands. One leaf often contains several mines.LEUCOPTERA GUETTARDELLA, new species.Antenna yellowish silvery; eyecap shining silvery white. Palpiabsent. Head and thorax white. Forewing shining white, fromcostal two-thirds to middle of dorsal margin an oblique, golden, nar-row fascia, black margined externally; from same point on costa totornus is another similar golden fascia, also black margined externally,together with the first forming a V turned upside down; parallel withthe latter fascia is a green costal str-eak, a little farther out towardapex, and still nearer apex is a small golden spot. At extreme apexis a small circular black dot and at tornus around the base of the second 240 ? PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.g-oklen fti.scia is an ag-g-regiition of blark scales. Cilia golden white witha thin Ijlack line parallel with the dorsal edge.Hindwings and cilia white. Abdomen sparsely scaled, yellowish,with the scales silvery. Legs silvery, anterior tibia3 and tarsi andposterior tarsi fuscous on the outside.Alar expanse, 5 mm.Described from a single specimen, reared from GiicttardiL ellcptlca^coUected at Palm Beach, Florida, by Dr. Dyar.Type.?^o. 4950, U.S.N.M.IJar^?a first makes a crooked narrow mine with the black frass in acontinuous central line. Then the mine ))roadens out in an undersideblotch, visible about as nuich on ui)pcr side and usually confinedbetween two veins, which makes it more or less quadrangular, oftenentirely obliterating the early part of the mine.Larva, when mature, is about 3.5 mm. long, somewhat flattened.It leaves its mine through a slit on the underside and spins its snow-white cocoon in a small fold at the edge of the leaf, under Init fewlongitudinal silken threads. The food plant was kindly determinedby Mr. C. L. Pollard, of the U. S. National Museum.PODIASA, new genus.(Type, FudUisd diiucucceUa, Busck.)Antennas a little longer than forewing, simple, basal joint flattenedto form a large eye cap. Labial palpi long, curved, smooth, terminaljoint as long as second. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Tongue present,weak. Face and head smooth. Anterior wings ovate, obtusely roundedat apex. Hind wings elongate ovate, obtusel}^ rounded at apex. Pos-terior tibite and beginning of tarsi with heavy bunches of hairs aboveand l>elow. The moth sits with the hinder part obliquely raised fromthe surface, face closely tipplied to it, forelegs stretched forward infront and wings roofed over the l)ody. Antennae extended along thebody under the wings and reaching a little outside the apex of these.Venation.?Fore wings: 11 veins, 5 absent, all separate, 7 to costa;above the end of the cell is a secondary cell which emits veins *,) and 10;lb simple. Hind wings: S veins, all separate.In spite of the totally different wing form and the presence of lal?ialpalpi, the genus reminds one strongh" of Leucoptera in general habitus,as in mine and cocoon, but its true affinities are uncertain to me.PODIASA CHIOCOCCELLA, new species.(Plate I, lig. 12.;Antennas yellowish silvery, light fuscous toward tip, basal jointwith large silvery white e3"e cap. Labial palpi silvery white. Eyesdeep black both in living and in dead specimens. Head and thorax NO.120S. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 24lsilveiy white, thorax with two longitudinal light golden j'^ellow .streak.s.Forewings silvery white, on the apical half overlaid with light anddark fuscous scales. These are arranged in irregular groups andwavy lines, differing somewhat in different specimens, but generallythere is found a dark group at basal two-thirds just below costa,which emits a dark streak inward and downward and two short onesupward to costa. Besides these a transverse row of dark scales a littlenearer apex and a dark line parallel with the apical dorsal edge arcrather constant in all specimens. Just before apex of the dorsal edgeis a small round black dot, and the narrow edge around the apex isbrown. In some specimens the fuscous scales are also sparsely suft'usedover the basal half of the wing, especially on the dorsal part, but inmost specimens this is pure white.From base of wing to apical edge are two longitudinal narrow linesof light golden yellow, concolorous with the streaks on thorax. Theselines are obscured from the middle of the wing outward under thefuscous scales, but reappear with a somewhat deeper golden color atapex, where there are rather few dark scales; the upper line containsthe black apical spot. The earliest bred specimens were the mostwhite, with the fuscous scales light and limited to the apical half ofthe wing; the later bred specimens were more suffused and moredarkly irrorate with the fuscous scales. Cilia yellowish gray at thetip, with a dark line parallel with the dorsal edge. Hind wings andcilia shining silvery white, abdomen yellowish, clothed with sparsesilvery white scales. The males sometimes displaved their sexualorgan, which was pointed downward and looked like the pappus on adandelion fruit, consisting of a stalk about 2 mm. long, on the end ofwhich was a globe of white hairs about 1 mm. long. Legs silverywhite, with ends of all points light fuscous. Front tibia rough-hairedat apex. Posterior tibia with heavy light fuscous tufts above andbelow; beginning of tarsi with long fuscous hairs, especially above.Alar expanse, 8 to 10 mm.Described from more than 20 specimens, bred from Cliiococca race-in osa^ collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. -?951, U.S.N.M.Egg is laid on underside of leaf at the midrib. Mine begins as along, narrow, serpentine, and broadens out suddenly in a large irregu-lar, whitish, half-transparent blotch, equally visible on Ijoth sides ofthe leaf. The black frass is scattered irregularly. The larval charac-ters are very strange. Up to its last larval molt it is slender, monili-form with the tirst thoracic segment twice as broad as the head, fromthence gradually tapering backward. No trace of either thoracicor abdominal feet. The head is flat, brown, the body white; firstthoracic segment with the large semilunar shield black; each of theother segments with one dorsal and one ventral large shining blackProc. N. M. vol. xxiii 16 242 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii. spot, triangular and .smaller on the second and thii'd thoracic segments,rectangular on the others; hairs white. When fully grown, it is about9 mm. long, casts its skin in the mine and assumes its last larval form,in which it does not eat and which is strangely di fiferent from the for-mer stage. Now the color of the head is shining black and thethoracic shield creamy yellowish white. Body very dark purplish red,each segment with a conspicuous laterual spot concolorous with thethoracic shield. But, stranger still, now both the thoracic and theabdominal feet are normal, well developed. The larva cuts a slitin the epidermis and comes out. moving freely about in a looping man-ner like a geometrid, for which it might easily be mistaken if the ninn-ber of feet is not observed. It pupates in a fold at the edge of a leafor in any suitable corner in a roomy glistening white cocoon.COPTODISCA Walsingham=ASPIDISCA Clemens.COPTODISCA CONDALIiE, new species.Antennae fuscous, i of forewing. Palpi, face, head, thorax, andbasal part of fore wing silvery white, in some lights, with golden reflec-tions, especialh^ on vertex. Apical half of forewing golden yellow,with a costal and a dorsal silvery white streak at the beginning of thecilia, nearly uniting so as to form a fascia, lilack margined on ])oth sides.Just behind is another costal white spot, also black margined behind,and at apex is a large velvety black triangular spot. Outer dorsal edgeof wing black. Cilia silvery white, with a single black pencil of hairsat apex continued from the apical ))lack spot. Hindwing dark greywith silvery reflections; cilia paler with golden reflections. Abdomenblack above; underside of bod}^ silvery white; legs silvery.Alar expanse, 'dA to 3.7 mm.Tyjpe.?^o. 4952, U.S.N.M.Described from nine specimens, bred February 12-24 from uppermines in leaves of Condalia feiTea, collected ])v Dr. Dyar at PalmBeach, Florida.Egg is laid on underside of leaf at the midril). The mine begins as ashort, gradually broadening upper serpentine one, filled with blackfrass, and ends in a transparent nearlj" circular blotch, the sides ofwhich the larva cuts out and uses as a case, which is fastened by oneshort silken band to a leaf or twig. Case is oval, 3 by 1.5 mm. Severalmines often found in one leaf. Larva is cylindrical, first and secondthoracic segments broad and flattened, bodv tapering backward.Head is light brown, small, retractile into the first thoracic segment;thoracic shield and anal plate dark brown; body greenish white with alarge dorsal and ventral dirt}^ g'l'ay spot on each segment. Feetobsolete. This species is yqvj near C. spletidoi'^fereUa Clemens, but*has the black in forewing less pronounced both in extent and shade. i NO.1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 243BUCCULATRIX Zeller.BUCCULATRIX IVELLA, new species.Antennse silvery gray with darker annulations; eyecaps large,speckled with light brown. Palpi o])solete. Face smooth, white.Tuft on head in front Avhitc, above speckled with light brown. Tho-rax fuscous. Forewings light ferrugineous gray, mottled with brownand fuscous. At beginning of costal cilia is a longitudinal streak ofdark fuscous; opposite on the dorsal edge another similar streak, andat apex a third one. A line from base of wing to this last streak justabove the fold is light gray, unmottled, while on the fold is a muchspeckled line; l)oth of these two longitudinal lines, however, are insome specimens interrupted and effaced. Cilia light gray; headwingand cilia silvery gray. Underside of l)ody light ^^ellowish, legs yellow,tarsi nearly white annulated with black.Alar expanse, 6.5 to 7.5 mm.Described from 12 specimens, bred from hxi fruteacens^ collected byDr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?l^o. 4953, U.S.N.M.The larva at first mines- the leaves; afterwards it feeds unprotectedon the underside of the leaves. In the latter period it is dirty whitewith l)lack hairs, head yellow with black eye marks and brown mandi-bles, tubercles polished white. When full grown about 5.5 mm. long.It reminds one in general appearance very much of the larva of Plu-tella inaculipennis Curtis {crudferaruin Zeller). The cocoon is of theusual Bucculatrix form, pure white, about 0.5 mm. long.BEDELLIA Stainton.BEDELLIA MINOR, new species.If I had received the types of this species for determination, I shouldsurely have pronounced them small specimens of the common somnu-lenteUa Stainton, and the knowledge of its food-plant would naturall)^strengthen this belief.Fortunatel}', however, I received larvas in all stages, and althoughthey also at a superficial examination might be taken for ^omnulentellathere are distinct and constant differences aside from the smaller size,and it is undoubted!}' a distinct form, developed through long isolationfrom the cosmopolitan species.Antenna as long as forewing, white with black annulations, basaljoint enlarged, with large dense pecten beneath, 3"cllowish speckledwith black. Labial palpi short, drooping, yellow. Face whitish.Tuft on head reddish yellow with tips of hairs fuscous. Thorax whitish3'ellow. Forewing light grayish yellow sprinkled with blaci< and fus-cous scales, most thickly on apical two-thirds; bai-ial one-third onl}' 244 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol xxiii. sliolitly dtirkt'iied with fuscous; dorsal margin about as much sprinkledwith dark scales as the rest of the wing. Hindwings dark gray, cilialighter yellowish.Venation is identical with that of somnulentella. Abdomen abovedark gray, lielow silvery yellow with black atoms. Anal tuft ochreous;legs 3"ellow, speckled with black, silvery white on the inside; hairs onposterior tibia whitish ochreous; tarsi annulated with l)lack.Alar expanse, 6 to ^^.(S mm.Described from 12 specimens, bred from IpomcBa, collected by Dr.Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?No. 4954, U.S.N. M.The species is of a lighter, more j^ellowish color than most speci-mens of somnulentella. The dorsal unspeckled streak generally foundin somnidentclld is in this species unicolorous with the rest of wing,while the basal part of the wing is more sparsely speckled. Still thesepoints are somewhat variable in sontnidentella., but of a very largeseries of somnidentella none were as small as the largest minor.Larva feeds in exactly the same fashion as the cosmopolitan species,making irregular clear blotches; the angular pupa is identical in form,possibly a little more robust, and is exposed, attached by the extrem-ities to silken threads.Larva differs from that of somnnlentella in the absence of the lateral,yellowish white, polished tubercles, which are found in mriinulentellaon joints 5, 8, and 9, and the subdorsal series of purple spots is verymuch less pronounced, the entire larva being more uniformly green-ish purple.There is no possibilit}^ of the small size being due to unnatural con-ditions b}^ transferring the larva from the tropical climate northward,as Dr. Dyar l)red exactly similar small moths?and nothing but these ? on the spot. Besides a very large number of larvfB were examinedcarefully by the writer and the differences were found to be constant.METRIOCHROA, new genus.(Type, MetriocJiroa psycholrklla Biisck.)Antenni\? a little longer than forewing. simple, basal joint with smallpecten l)eneath. Labial palpi moderate, smooth, slighth" curved, inthe living insect erected in front of face, in dr}" specimen porrected,or drooping; second joint with scales projecting at apex, terminal aslong as second, rather blunt. Maxillary palpi small but distinct,slightly curved upward, in dead specimen drooping. Tongue mod-erate, spiraled. Face and head smooth. Forewings elongate, lance-olate, pointed, cell very long. Hindwings very narrow setiform.Antenna? and middle legs smooth with end of tibiiB thickened. Pos-terior tibiaj clothed with long spiny hair^ above; inner spurs twice aslong as outer spurs. NO. 1208. :^EW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTIIS?B USCK. '245Venation.?Fore winj^s: veins, 3 and 4 absent, (> and 7 stalked,7 to costa, 11 absent, 1 simple. Hind wing-s: 4 veins, 7 to apex, 6 outof 7; median s^^stem represented by a single vein. Cilia 5.Position at rest more like Tisheria than Gracilaria, body obliquelyraised in front and forelegs applied to l)od3^ Antenna? are laid alontrand over the forewings. Before settling down to rest th(?, moth whirlsthe antennas in rotary motion and raises the body up and down withan impatient motion, alternately bending and stretching forelegs.The genus is allied to Ornix, but reminds one much of Tisheria andBedell ia. METRIOCHROA PSYCHOTRIELLA, new species.(Plate I, fig. 13.)Antennse bluish black annulated with white, last joint white. Labialpalpi light yellow, with a ring around the middle of terminal jointl)lack. Maxillary palpi white. Face white, vertex white with 1)luishscales intermixed; sides of head, thorax, and anterior wings darkbrown, nearly black, with a bluish metallic ].uster and with sparsel)luish-Avhite scales uniformly intermixed. Cilia dark gray with twoapical transverse lines black. Hindwings light purplish grey, ciliadarker. Abdomen of the general hue, with the anterior margin ofeach segment light yellow. Legs yellow; tarsi annulated with bluishblack.Alar expanse, 5.5 to 5.8 mm.Described from six specimens bred from mines on PHijchotria 'undata^collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.^'^o. 4955, U.S.N.M.Egg is laid on upper surface of the leaf; mine is a long (15 mm.),winding, narrow serpentine on upper side of leaf, with the blackfrass deposited in quite regular transverse lines. Gradually it becomesbroader (2 to 3 mm.) and ends in a small, oblong (5 to 6 mm.), broadblotch, drawn together longitudinally into one or more ridges, beneathwhich the larva pupates without forming any cocoon, the mine being-simply slightly silk lined. The pupa protrudes when the moth issues.Larva is most singular; cylindrical, soyiewhat flattened, with notrace of thoracic feet; in their place three pairs of polished circularplates; five pairs of well-developed abdominal feet, one pair on eachof joints 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, counting the head as first joint; no anal feet.MARMARA Clemens.MARMARA GUILANDINELLA, new species.Antennae f , rather thick, with large pecten beneath basal joint, andsparsely ciliated throughout; metalli(! ])lack. Lalfial palpi slightlycurved, in the living insect reaching vertex, in dead specimens por- 24G rROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm. rected; second joint a little rough with scales projecting at apex, thirdnearly as long as second, blunt, both joints silvery white, with apexblack. Maxillar}^ palpi white, moderate, ascending, clothed withlong spreading black hairs, especially at tip. Face smooth, silverywhite. Head smooth, silvery white with fuscous scales. Thorax andforewings deep bluish black with metallic reflections; a narrow silverywhite fascia at basal third, at middle of costa a silvery white spot andnearly opposite, but a little farther outward, a dorsal one. Fartherout in the costal cilia is a third costal white spot. Cilia bluish blackwith tips white. Hindwings purplish grey, cilia 4, lighter. Abdo-men bluish black with silvery reflections; anal tuft silvery grey; legssmooth, black with white aunulations.Alar expanse, 4.8 mm.Described from a single male in fine condition, bred March 27,1900, from material collected at Palm Beach, Florida, by Dr. Dyar.Ty^e.?No. 4956, U.S.N.M.Larva mines the twigs of Guilandina honducella in the samefashion iisMar)7UirasaUctel7a in willow branches. Mine is aver}' long,narrow, irregular serpentine, going upward or downward very nearthe surface just under the epidermis. Larva is very flat, much incisedbetween the segments, tapering backward; head very flat, mandibleslarge, projected far out in front of the head. At maturity it assumesa similar wine-red coloration of transverse bands as salictelhi: Cocoonwhite, spun outside the mine.The species is quite near to salictella, a bred series of which is nowbefore me, but it is smaller, darker, and with the second fascia insalictelhi represented by the costal and the dorsal spot.The venation in both species is as follows: Forewing elongateovate; 7 veins, 3 to 5 absent, 8 and 9 absent, lb simple, 6 and 7 separate,one to each side of the apex. Hindwing setiform, 5 veins; 8 short, 7along costa to apex, 5 and 6 from common independent stalk frombase, 3 and 4 absent. (See Plate I, flg. 14.)LITHOCOLLETIS Hubner.LITHOCOLLETIS VERBESINELLA, new species.Antennae silvery white with black annulations, last 4 or 5 jointswhite. Labial palpi silvery white. Face golden iridescent white;tuft on head reddish yellow with a few white scales. Thorax andforewing deep golden yellowish brown. At basal third is a silverywhite costal streak directed outward, strongly margined externallywith black. At the middle of the wing is a silvery white, outwardlyangulated fascia, and at the begiiming of costal cilia another similarone, both strongly margined externally with black. Just before apexis a third small silvery white fascia, with a few scattered black scales NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 247externalh'. Cilia light golden yellow. Hindwings dsirk silvery gray,cilia a shade lighter. Abdomen above, dark gray; underside silveryand golden yellow. Legs silvery with broad black annulations.Alar expanse, 6.4 nun.Described from a single specimen, bred from Yerheslna virglnica,collected at Palm Beach, Florida, bv Dr. Dvar.Type.?^o. 4957, U.S.N.M.The larva makes a roomy tent-shaped mine on the under side withthe lower epidermis much wrinkled longitudinally, and pupates in anelongate white cocoon suspended at both ends like a hammock hisidethe mine. Larva belongs to the cylindrical group.I made no further notes on the larva, and even omitted to write Dr.Dyar for more material to breed from, because I was convinced thatit was the mine and larva of Lithocolletk elephantopodella^ Yx^y andBoll, which I have bred commonly from exactly similar mines on Ver-besina at Washington, D. C. The moth, however, while belongingin the same group with elephanUqjodeUa and arnhrosieUa^ is decidedlj^different, notably in the more angulated -and darker margined firstfascia and the complete, angulated second fascia instead of the costaland dorsal streak of elepliaHtopodella.CORISCIUM Zeller.CORISCIUM RANDIELLA, new species.Antenna? longer than forewing, grey, each joint tipped with black.Lal^ial palpi long, curved, second joint strongly tufted beneath, espe-cially'^ toward apex, terminal one nearly as long and somewhat roughin front; white with tips gre}". Maxillar}^ palpi distinct, smooth,white. -Face silvery white. Head white with central parts mousegrey. Thorax mouse grey with two lateral longitudinal white lines.Forewings mouse grey with a golden luster. Three outwardly directedsilver}^ white costal streaks, all thinl}" black margined, reach nearl}- tothe fold. From base to apex a dark-edged undulating silvery whiteline with the tops of the three undulations touching the fold and thethree bases of these undulations on the dorsal edge. The ]>lack mar-gin of the last undulation and that of the last costal streak unite in asmall longitudinal spot. Cilia white with a short black dash on thecostal side and two short parallel black lines on the dorsal sides.Hindwings light silvery gray. Legs silvery white with deep blackannulations on the tarsi.Alar expanse, 5.8 to 6.1 mm.Described from 5 specimens bred from Randia acideatd, collectedby Dr. Djar at Palm Beach, Florida.TyiJc.?^o. 4958, U.S.N.M.The Gigg is laid at the edge of a leaf on tlie under side; the young 248 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAl MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.larva bores throiioh to the upper side, forming a more or less trumpet-shaped upper l)loteh extending- along the edge of the leaf. Whenfresh the mine is not mueh discolored, but when old it becomes whitishbrown. Mr. Kinzel says that this species becomes very abundant andinjurious to the Randia in summer time.Larva is cj'lindrical, with 14 legs, yellow; mandibles light ))rown.When mature, it is about 4.5 nnn. long; it leaves the mine and makesa slight fold on under side of a leaf, drawing the edge down withtransverse cables of white silk, under which the oval white cocoon isspun. CHILOCAMPYLA, new genus.(Type ChUocampyJa dyariella Biisick. ) Antennae nearly 1^, simple; basal joint somewhat flattened andenlarged, with thick covering of scales, and with large heav}- pectenbeneath, giving the appearance of an ej^ecap, although not thus used;antenna^ at rest, ])eing porrected obliquely in front. Lal)ial palpi long,slender, smooth, curved, in the living insect, erected before and keptclose to face, reaching the vertex; in dead specimens drooping, later-ally divergent; second joint a little thickened at apex; terminal nearlyas long as second, pointed. Maxillary palpi moderate, porrected.slightl}" curved upward. Tongue very long, scaled at base. Headand face smooth; head elongate narrow; face retreating. Eyes large,prominent. Anterior wings narrow, much elongated; in femalepointed, and of normal form; in male with a costal depression at two-thirds from base, making the wing one-third narrower at that point,widening out again toward tip, which is rather blunt. The males canat once be distinguished b}" this peculiarity. Posterior wings setiform;costa excised from basal third to apex.Vejiation.?In female: 11 veins; 3 absent, and T shortl}' stalked,7 to costa, 1^ simple; in the male the costal depression causes a nar-rowing of the cell and obliterates A'ein 10; cell widens out again afterthe costal depression, and venation is otherwise identical with that ofthe females. Hindwings: 8 veins; 7 to apex; cell open between 4 and 5.Anterior tibit^ thickened at apex, with smooth scales. Middle tibiaesmooth, thickened at end, with heav}" tuft of scales; together withanterior legs prominentlv displayed, Gracilaria-fashion, when insect isat rest. Posterior til)ia^ al)ove with two longitudinal rows of bristles;inner spurs at the end of tibia several times as long as outer spurs.An oflfshoot from Gracilaria, and allied to Spanioptila Walsingham,which genus 1 know only from description; but diflering in venationand the smooth middle tibite. Also, apparently, by a nuich morestrongly developed pecten on first anteunal joint, besides the curvedcosta of the males. NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS-BUSCK. 249CHILOCAMPYLA DYARIELLA, new species.(Plate I, fiK. 15.)Antenna? straw-yellow, indistinctly annulated with a darker shade;Hrst joint and pectcn in front deeper 3^ellow, with l)hiish hiack edges;posterior side all black. Face, head, and labial palpi lig-ht shiningstraw-yellow; third joint of palpi with a ))lack annulation around thebase and one around the middle. Maxillary pal])i yellow with tipsblack. Eyes in the living insect brilliant ])rick-red, in dead specimensdark brown. Thorax dark straw-colored, shoulders light brown.Forowing: ground color straw-yellow with gra}', purple and blackscales intermixed. Basal half of costal edge whitish with ))la(;k dots;reaching from basal fourth to middle of wing and inward; beyondfold is a large, ill-defined, triangular, costal spot, darkest at the edges,with the dark scales predominating. Just before apex is a thin,indistinct, transverse line of white scales.In the male the portion of the wing just below the costal depressionis somewhat deeper yellow and without intermixed darker scales.Cilia dark purple. Hindwings and cilia light purple; the entire insectin some lights with brilliant purple reflections. Fore and middle legsyellow with the enlarged parts of the tibiji? purplish black. Tarsiwith purple annulations. Abdomen dark purple above; entire bodybeneath silvery white.Alar expanse, 7 to 8.5 mm.Described from more than 30 specimens, bred February 18 toMarch 20, 1900, from material collected at Palm Beach, Florida, byDr. l\var, in honor of whom this species is named.Type.?^o. 4969, U.S.N.M.Food plant two species of Eugenia. The mine is one of the mostinteresting I have met with. Egg is laid on the underside of the leafand mine begins as a long narrow line along the edge of the leaf forabout 25 mm. and then turning inward it suddenly broadens out in alarge bladder-like blotch nearly covering the entire leaf. The upperand lower epidermis are separated and the leaf is inflated and yieldsto pressure like an air cushion, being from 3 to 6 mm. thick. Mineshows whitish green on the underside, discolored with purple on theupperside. The inside of the mine looks as if overgrown with asmall, whitish pearly fungus, and before I had examined it carefullyand found the larva and the early part of the mine I took the phenom-ena to be the result of a fungous disease. Inside this roomy mine isfound a cn'lindrical, clear, transparent larva with sparse white hairsand with 14 h^gs. Head is light brown with darker reddish brownsutures and two black eyespots.When full grown, it is al)out 4.5 mm. long; it comes out of the mine,turns vivid wine red, and spins a dense, oval, yellowish grey cocoon 250 I'ROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii.in a slight fold on leaf. The average cocoon measures 7 hy 4 mm.The pupa is at first white, with black eyes, part of which the enlargedfirst antenna! joint covers; the antennae reach far bej^ond anal tip.On the front of the head is a stout, sharp, brown spine, used to cutthe cocoon when the imago issues.When mature the pupa assumes the coloration of the imago. Thepupa stage lasted in a warm room about three weeks. The pupa shellis left protruding from the cocoon. Position of imago at rest likethat of Gracilaria, but with antennae porrected obliquely in front.EUCOSMOPHORA, Walsingham.EUCOSMOPHORA SIDEROXYLONELLA, new species.Antennt\3 f, simple, basal joint without pec^ten, dark fuscous atbase with a cupreous sheen. At rest, porrected straight in front ofthe insect. Labial palpi long, smooth; third joint as long as second,in the living insect recurved, overarching the vertex, kept rather farfrom face; in dead specimen laterally divergent. Color bright gold(Mi.Maxillary palpi small but distinct, golden. Eyes in the living insectbrilliant coral red. Head and thorax smooth, shining metallic golden.Forewings bright metallic golden with cupreous reflections. Seenunder a lens the basal and apical part of the wing is pure gold, theintervening space coppery, but the reflections are so strong on bothcolors that the entire wing sometimes appears all gold, while in otherlights the cupreous predominates. From the base is an elongated,costal, black streak, extending nearh^ one-fourth of the wing and inter-rupted before the middle by two golden dots. ^Vbout the middle ofthe wing is another elongated, narrow, subcostal black streak withbright metallic blue reflections. Opposite it, on the dorsal edge,begins a third elongated black streak, extending obliquely upwardand outward nearly to the costal margin, and from there to apex.The portion of the wing below and outside this line is in some lightsdusky black with bright golden streaks, but in other lights the black isobliterated by the strong golden reflections. Cilia and hindwingsdark grey, with bronze reflections. Abdomen dark fuscous, withbronzy reflections. Legs golden; posterior tibite clothed with rathershort, stiff, spiny hairs above; middle tibia^ smooth; underside ofbod}' silvery white.Alar expanse, 8 mm.Described from a single specimen, bred Fe])ruarv t^T, 19?)0. frommastic {Slderoxylon palUduin) collected at Palm Beach, Florida, hyDr. Dyar.7}//..?No. 4960, U.S.N.M.I am not acquainted with this genus except through Lord Walsing-ham's description, but I have little doubt that this species belongs to NO. 1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS?BUSCK. 251 it, although the single specimen does not allow a thorough examinationof the venation. It is a splendid, shining little insect, which "ought"to go in the genus Eucosmophora (who carries a beautiful ornament).It seems very near E. dives Walsingham, but there is no trace of anywhite costal spot, nor any white at all on the forewing, as is the casewith E. divefi.The larva is cylindrical, with 14 legs, yellow, with darker yellowhead and brown mandibles. It mines the upper sid(^ of young leavesof Sideroxvlon, at the same time drawing the leaf longitudinally intoa roll or fold, which covers up tlie mine out of sight.GRACILARIA Haworth.GRACILARIA BURSERELLA, new species.Antennae longer than forewing, purplish gray, becoming graduallylighter outward, silver}- white at tip. Labial palpi white on the out-side with purple shadings and tip of terminal joint l)lack. Maxillarypalpi moderate, porrected, white. Face white. Head and thorax yel-lowish brown with strong purple reflections; forewing brown withstrong purple reflections; along costa a shade lighter, more yellowish.Small irregular black dots all over the wing; just before tip an indis-tinct narrow, l)lack fascia; cilia dark gra}'. Hindwing dark purplishgray. Cilia lighter. Abdomen dark purple, underside white, speckledwith purple, legs white with brow^n shadings; tuft on middle tibiadark purplish brown.Alar expanse, !?.(> and 10.4 nun.Described from two males, In'cd Fe])ruary 21, l!)00, from Bursera(/unijiitfcni^ "? guml)o-limbo," collected l)v Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach,Florida.Type.^^o. 4i>(;i, U.S.N.M.Larva is cylindrical, 3'ellow, without markings; 14 feet. At first itmakes a small triangular mine between midril) and another ril) on under-side of the leaf. Afterwards it folds the edge of the leaf downward.The species is (juite near to G. 'vl.olacella Clemens.GRACILARIA SEBASTI ANIELLA, new species.Antenna^ longer than forewing, shining fuscous. Labial palpiwhitish with tips fuscous. Maxillary palpi white. Face whitish.Head and thorax yellowish. Forewing yellowish fuscous; from costaat basal third, directed o])liquely inward, is a narrow white fascia; atmiddle of the wing is a dorsal white streak, parallel with the fasciaand reaching to the fold. At apical third of the wing is a costalwhitish streak, perpendicular to the dorsal streak and also reaching thefold. Extreme tip of wing and the adjoining cilia white with a l)lackdot on apex. All of these white markings are strongly margined 252 FEOCEEDINGJS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxm.internall}' with black. At apical fourth, between the last costal streakand apex, is an oval black spot with the center white and the entirecostal edge is sliohtly mottled with black. Cilia dark fuscous with awhitish line parallel with the dorsal edge. Hindwings and cilia darkg-ray. Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft yellowish. Legs silveryyellow; tarsi Avith black annulations.Alar expanse, 7.6 to 8.4 mm.Described from 3 specimens, bred from Seba^tlania lac'ida^ collectedby Dr. Dj^ar at Palm Beach, Florida.Type.?^o. 4962, U.S.N.M.Larva makes a ))rown, irregular, elongated upper Ijlotchmine, withthe upper epidermis drawn into a longitudinal ridge. It leaves themine and spins its white cocoon in a sharp fold at the edge of the leaf.PHYLLOCNISTIS Zeller.Of the American species placed under this genus P. amjpelopsiellaCham])ers, Viriodendronella Clemens, iwjndiella Chambers, mtifolieUaChambers, vitujeneUa Clemens, and llquidamberisella Chambers allconform well with the definition of that genus. So does P. magnoUa-eUa Chambers, the imago of which has never been described, but whichI have hvvA and found to be a distinct species.P. f