OF WASHINGTON. 475 



forthcoming paper, "A Revision of North American GelechiicUe." 

 He has handed me the following, so that the species might be in 

 cluded here : 



G. floridanella n. sp. Antennas four-fifths of fore wing, light brown on 

 the under side, dark fuscous on the upper, in $ slightly serrate and deeply 

 notched on upper side of the joint next to the basal one, in 9 serrate but 

 without the notch. Labial palpi long, recurved, smooth, somewhat com 

 pressed laterally, sharpened in front, the third joint two-thirds as long as 

 the second; dark bronzy fuscous. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Tongue 

 stout, scaled. Head and thorax blackish fuscous, face a shade lighter. 

 Fore wing with ground color light yellowish fuscous, thickly overlaid with 

 dark blackish brown and with a purple sheen. The dark scales segregate 

 into large, ill-defined patches, one occupying nearly the entire basal 

 third of the wing and most prominent at dorsal basal third ; another form 

 ing an obscure transverse band across the wing at the apical third, and a 

 third occupying the apical portion of the wing. The intervals between 

 these patches show the lighter ground color sprinkled with numerous 

 single dark scales. 



Venation : Eleven veins in fore wing, vein 8 absent, 7 to costa, 2 and 3 

 stalked. This seems a more natural explanation than the one given by 

 Lord Walsingham in the description of the genus. 



Hind wing dark gray, twice as broad as the fore wing, termen slightly 

 sinuate. 



Venation : Eight veins, 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Legs shining yellowish fuscous, shaded with darker fuscous. Expanse 

 13.5 to 15 mm. 



U. S. National JVfuseum, type no. 5363. Described from two 

 cTrf and one ?. 



This remarkable genus, described from the West Indies, has 

 not hitherto been recorded from the continent. I have, however, 

 observed with pleasure another species of it while examining 

 Chambers' types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cam 

 bridge, Mass. It is his Gelechia cequepulvella. From the short 

 indefinite description (Can. Ent. IV, 192, 1872), no one would 

 suspect that Chambers had before him specimens of this charac 

 teristic genus. It is strange that he did not notice the peculiar 

 antennal structure of the male. However, eleven specimens, 

 labelled by Chambers and agreeing with his description exclude 

 all doubt of the identity of the species. One of these specimens, 

 a. cJ', bears Walsingham's blue label No. 1006, referring to a note 

 book which I have seen through the kindness of Prof. C. H. Fer- 

 nald, in which the specimen is identified as G. czguepulvella 

 Chamb. The male genitalia in Chambers' species are very large 

 and highly developed, as are also the same parts in the compara 

 tively smaller G.jftoridanella. These structures may ultimately 



