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This is the first record in America of this interesting Euro 

 pean genus. I have been unable to examine the type of the 

 genus Illustrella Hiibner, but presume that the other species 

 placed with it in this genus by Rebel are truly congeneric, and 

 the present American species has the same general habitus and 

 the identical oral and venational characters as these. The 

 venation is as follows : Fore wings, 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked 

 to costa, rest separate; hind wings, 8 veins, 3 and 4 closely 

 approximate or connate (in primera approximate), 5 nearest 

 4, 6 and 7 stalked. 



I have long had the type of this species, but have been in 

 doubt about its locality label, which reads : " From Boll, 

 Texas." Such labels were placed, during a short period, on 

 Microlepidoptera from any locality by a young inexperienced 

 worker in the Department of Agriculture and are consequently 

 not dependable. Some European specimens, for example, 

 bear such a label. I have, however, examined and deter 

 mined specimens from Cochise County, Ariz., and from Den 

 ver, Colo., for my friend, Doctor W. G. Dietz, and have thus 

 at least two good localities for the species. 



I have met with another species of this genus, collected in 

 New Jersey, but have not sufficient material to properly de 

 scribe it at present. 



Telphusa velatella, n. sp. 



Antennae silvery white, with black annulations. Second joint of labial 

 palpi white, speckled and barred with black; terminal joint white, with 

 two ill-defined black annulations, one around the middle and one just 

 before the tip ; brush short, divided. Face iridescent white. Head and 

 thorax white, sprinkled with dark fuscous scales. Fore wings clothed 

 with very long, narrow speckled scales; ground color white, heavily 

 overlaid with ochreous and fuscous on the basal two thirds of the wing; 

 the apical third is also sprinkled with dark scales, but to a less extent 

 and appears quite light contrasted with the basal part. Near base is 

 an oblique, outwardly directed, black costal streak, reaching the fold 

 and followed by a white space only slightly sprinkled with dark scales. 

 There are two longitudinal rows of tufts of raised scales, one through 

 the middle of the wing with the first tuft at basal third, the second on 

 the middle of the wing, and the third at the end of the cell; the other 

 row with two tufts below the fold and the third just below the end of 

 the cell. Hind wings light fuscous. Legs white, barred with black; 

 tarsi black, each joint tipped with white. 



Alar expanse, 14 mm. 



