104 HETEROCERA. 
35. Dichomeris ribbeella Z. 
Gelechia (Helcystogramma) ribbeella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 369-71 Pf. 5+ 126a7> (1877) 
Type 2 Mus. Stgr. 
Hab. Panama: curriqui (Ribbe) *. 
MENESTA Clms. 
=+Mevesrra Chmb. = Hratze Chmb. 
Type: Menesta tortriciformella Clms. (Clms. 1860). 
Menesta Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 213 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. x, 151-2 (1872) ; 
Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 779 (1864). Hyazz Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Se. 2 241-3 (1875): Bull. 
US. GG. Surv. 4 150 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 201°8 (1880). Mzwzsrra Chmb. 
Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 157 (1878). Mxnzsta Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1881 319 (1881) : 
US. Dp. Agr. Div. Ent. Ins. Life 2 154-5 (1889) ; Mrtf. US. Dp. Agr. Div. Ent. Ins. Life 
2 303-5, tf. 303-63 (1890); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 99 sp. 5227-8 (1891); 
Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5650-2 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 902-4, 
937 Pf. 31°30 (1903) ; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6329-32 (1908). 

1. Menesta albiciliella Chmb. 
= talbaciliaeella Chmb.; =argenticiliaeella Chmb.* 
Strobisia albaciliaeella Chmb. Can. Ent. 10 77-8 (1878)": Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878)’. 
Strobisia argenticiliaeella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878) *. Strobisia albaciliaella 
Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5540 (1891)*. Strobisia argenticiliaeelia Riley, 
Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 104 sp. 5581 (1891)°. Menesta albaciliaeella Busck Bull. US. 
Nat. Mus. 52 505 sp. 5652 (1902)°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 903-4 (1903)"; Krft. Smith’s 
Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 112 sp. 6332 (1903) *. 
Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi slender, whitish cinereous. Head cinereous. Thorax leaden grey. 
Forewings leaden grey, with a slight purplish tinge, and a greenish gloss beyond and below the end of 
the cell, a white reversed comma-shaped spot at the end of the cell pointing inwards and upwards; the 
base and points of the brownish cinereous cilia are distinctly white at the apex and a little below it. 
Exp. al.8 mm. Hindwings and cilia dark brownish, with a faint purplish tinge. Abdomen dark leaden 
grey. Legs cinereous, shaded with leaden grey. 
NT. 2 (65637 Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States*°—New Jersey®": 17. VI. (W. D. 
Kearfott)'—Onto”*: cincinnati (C. Dury)". Central America—Muxico: TaBAsco: 
Teapa, III. (7. H. Smith). 

ATHRINACIA, gen. n. 
(a = privation; Opivat=a trident.) 
Type: Athrinacia xanthographa Wlsm. (Tab. III. fig. 27.) 
Antennae $, smooth, rather stout in d; without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, smooth; terminal 
joint as long as median. Mawillary Palpi short, dependent. Haustellum well-developed, scaled at base. , 
Ocelli absent. Head with upward-spreading side-tufts. Thoraw smooth. Forewings widening outward 

