
LIPOMERINX.—TEGETICULA. 369 
Allied to Tinea L., with which it agrees in general appearance and neuration, but 
differs in the form of the palpi and in the absence of the setae at the end of the 
median joint, which are so characteristic of Tinea—it also differs in the very short, 
deflexed termina] joint. 
1. Lipomerinx prismatica, sp. n. (Tab. X. fig. 23.) 
Antennae and Palpi dark brown. Head dark ferruginous, Z'horax dark brown. Forewings dark brown, 
with a dark ferruginous streak along the outer half of the cell, extending beyond it to the middle of the 
termen, a shade of the same colour running along the fold from the base, but not reaching the dorsum, 
also a slight subcostal shade near the apex—these are rendered inconspicuous by blending with the 
ground-colour, to which a bluish gloss is also imparted, about the terminal and dorsal portions of the 
wing, by numerous dots of steel-blue metallic scales (visible only with the lens); cilia bright, shining, 
iridescent bronze-colour, mixed along their base with tawny ferruginous and steel-blue. Exp. al. 15- 
25 mm. Hindwings bronzy brownish, with a faint purplish gloss; cilia pale brownish cinereous, 
darker along their basal third, and tipped with shining bronze about the apex. Abdomen brown. 
Legs brownish cinereous. 
Type & (4779, Jalapa) Mus. Wism. BM. [P77 (6077-81, Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.] 
_ Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: puranco (A. Forrer): VERA 
cruz: Jalapa, 4500 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus; M. Trujillo); oaxaca: Salina Cruz, 1906 
(W. Schaus). South America—Brazi_: Espirito santo (Higgins): sao PAULO: Sao 
Paulo, 1898 (£. Dukinfield-Jones): Parana: Castro, 1895 (E. Dukinfield-Jones). 
Seventeen specimens. 
TEGETICULA Z. 
=§Prowvea Riley ({Prouiza Kby) ; = Propoxus Riley. 
Type 1: Pronuba yuccasella Riley (Riley 1872; =alba Z., Z. 1873). 
Treeticuta Z.=§Prowvsa Riley Nature 6 444 (26. IX. 1872): Can. Ent. 4 182 (X. 1872): 
Am. Nat. 6 765-6 (XII, 1872); Rp. Ins. Mo. 5 150-60 tf. 74-5 (18. IV. 1873): 
Tr. St-Louis Ac. Sc. 3 55-64 tf. 1-2 (1873): 178-80 tf. 3 (1873); [Pkrd.] Am. Nat. 7 
475-6 tf. 477° 128-80 (1873) ; Riley Am. Nat. 7 619-23 (1873). Txaevicuna Z. Verh. ZB. 
Ges. Wien 28:1873 Abh. 232-3 (XII. 1873). §Pxowvea Riley Rp. Ins. Mo. 6 131-5 
tf. 88 (1874). +Promura Kby. Zool. Rec. 9:1872 380, 494 (1874). Trcericuta Z. 
Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 25: 1875 Abh. 340-2 (1875). §Pzrowvza Riley Tr. St. Louis Ac. Sc. 
3 208-10 (1875) : 325-6 (1876); Boll Stett, Ent. Ztg. 87 401-5 tf. 1-3 (1876) ; Riley Rp. 
Ins. Mo. 8 171 (1876); Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 3 122, 161 (1877) : 4 121, 148 (1878) ; 
Riley Tr. St-Louis Ac. Sc. 3 568-73 (1878): Stett. Ent. Ztg. 39 877-82 (1878) ; Chmb. Jr. 
Cin. Soe. NH. 1 141-54 (1878) ; Meehan N-Am. Ent. 1 33-6 (1878) ; Chmb. Jr. Cin. Soc. 
NH. 2 198 (1880); Riley Am. Ent. 3 141-5, 155-6, 177-8, 182 (1880); Hgn. Can. Ent. 12 
128-9 (1880) ; Chmb. Am. Ent. 3177 (1880) ; Riley Can. Ent. 12 263-4 (1880): Am. Ent. 
3 293 (1880): US. Dp. Intr. (Ent. Com.) Bull. 6 (Sppl. Rp. Ins. Mo.) 58 (1881): Pr. 
Am. Assn. Adv. Se. 29: 1880 617-89 tf. 1-6, 10 (1881); Hgn. Zool. Anz. 5:1882 18-21 
(1882) ; Meehan Pr. Am. Assn. Adv. Se. 30 : 1881 205-7 (1882); Riley Pr. Am. Assn. Adv. 
Se. 30: 1881 272 (1882): 31: 1882 467-8 (1883): Am. Nat. 17 197 (1883) ; Hulst Ent. 
Am. 2 184 (1886) ; Riley Ent. Am. 2 233-6 (1887); Hulst Ent. Am. 2 236-8 (1887); 
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