296 HETEROCERA. 
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’—Disrrict oF CotumBia?: Washington, 
® in seed-pods Gleditschia horrida, 1X, ex. II’; ex. 2, VIL. 1883 (2860 C. V. Riley 
1884)—Tuxas, SW.: 1884 (H.K. Morrison). Central America’—Mextco’: sonora’: 
1883 (II. K. Morrison) }. | 
SAPHENISTA, gen. n. 
(cdgnviZw=to explain.) 
= Turratia W\sm., olim. 
Type: Conchylis lacteipalpis Wlsm. 
Antennae (broken). Palpi moderate, porrect; median joint thickened with scales; terminal joint short, 
blunt. Head roughly clothed. Thorax smooth. Forewings with the costa somewhat straight, rounded 
to the slightly depressed apex; termen rather oblique, not sinuate beneath apex; tornus rounded: 
neuration 12 veins, all separate; 7 to costa above apex; 2 from outer fourth of cell. Hindwings 
trapezoidal, slightly narrower than the forewings; apex and tornus rounded, termen and dorsum 
subsinuate: neuration 8 veins; 3-4 stalked; 5 almost straight, but very slightly inclining to 4 toward 
base; 6—7 stalked. Legs: hind tibiae slightly haired above. 
Thyralia Wism. [Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 138-9 no. 80 sp. 205-7 (1897)] was 
described from lacteipalpis Wlsm., but the description was extended to include 
bunteana Rbnsn. which was cited as the type. Busck [Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 15 20 
(1907)! pointed out that bunteana Rbnsn. could not be separated from Phalonia Hb. ; 
lepidana Clms. is also a Phalonia, but lacteipalpis Wlsm. may be at once distinguished 
by HW: 3-4 being stalked, not separate as in Phalonia Hb. The genonym “ Thyralia 
Wlsm.” should be cancelled. 
1. Saphenista multistrigata, sp.n. (Tab. IX. fig. 5.) 
Antennae biciliate 1; very pale ochreous, Palpi short, porrect ; white, shaded with ochreous externally, 
nearly to the end of the median joint. Head and Thorav olivaceous ochreous ; face white. Forewings 
creamy, profusely peppered with silvery scales on the pale ground-colour, and with five or six elongate 
streak-like patches of olivaceous brownish ochreous ; one, indistinct, pointed, arising obliquely from the 
flexus, is followed by two of equal size, longitudinal and parallel—one on the cell, the other below it, | 
accompanied at their upper edges by some black scales, and reaching to the middle of the wing; from 
the middle of the costa, above these, arises an outwardly oblique streak which terminates on the cell. but 
is renewed in a detached streak, or patch, in the same line, pointing to the termen above the tornus and 
narrowly edged outward with black scales; from this, halfway to the apex, arises a rather larger and 
rather less oblique streak, which terminates a little below the middle of the ter1men, where it is narrowly 
edged with black scales ; beyond it the apex is speckled with the same colour, of which there is a slight 
shade along the dorsum and above the tornus; cilia shining, whitish ochreous. Exp. al. 7-8 mm 
Hindwings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen ochreous, much shaded with fuscous posteriorly Leys 
whitish ochreous. 
Type 3 (66299, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [P7'T. (66301-2) US. Nat. Mus. | 
Hab, AMERICA, C-L Central America—Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, 1V. (H. H. 
Smith): tTaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies—JAaMAICA: ST. ANN: 
Moneague, 10-22. 1. 1905 (Wism.); Runaway Bay, 3. IIT. 1905 (Wism.). “Focstoon 
specimens, 
This species was met with, not uncommonly, at Moneague in J anuary 
