OF WASHINGTON. 159 



a synonym of Vitula, type serratilineella Ragonot. There is 

 no known American species of Eccopisa Zeller. 



Laetilia ephestiella Ragonot. 



Dakruma ephestiella Ragonot, Diag. No Am. Phycit. and Gall., p. 13, 



1887. 



Ltztilia ephestiella Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xvn, p. 185, 1890. 

 Lasiosticha ephestiella Ragonot, Rom. Mem., vui, p. no, 1901, PI. i, 



fig 3- 

 Laosticha ephestiella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 431, 1902. 



The name Laosticha is another error in preparing Dr. Hulst's 

 manuscript for Bulletin 52- The name originally communicated 

 to Dr. Hulst was evidently Lasiosticha Meyrick. But I can see 

 no reason for referring the Arizonian species to this Australian 

 genus. Lasiosticha is characterized by having a thick ridge of 

 scales on the $ antennas from base to middle, as stated in the text 

 of Ragonot's monograph and shown in the figure,* while Rago 

 not says of ephestiella, $ antennas simple, filiform, feebly pubes 

 cent. The venation is stated to be as in coccidivora Comstock, 

 but vein 2 of hind wings a little before end of cell and vein 8 very 

 short. I would refer it to Lcetilia of which Lacsticha (Ragonot) 

 Hulst will become a synonym. The genus Lasiosticha Meyrick 

 should be considered unrepresented in America. 



Pectinigera ardiferella Hulst. 



Al/ootia ardiferella Hulst, Ent. Amer., iv, p. 118, 1888. 

 Altoona ardiferella Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc , xvii, p. 208, 1890. 

 Tolima ardiferella Ragonot, Romanoff Mem., vm, p. 506, 1901. 

 Aurora nigromaculella Hulst. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vui, p. 224, 1901. 

 Sahiria ardiferella Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 439, 1902. 



This species cannot belong to Tolima, as vein 2 of the hind 

 wings is distant from the angle of the cell, nor to Aurora, as vein 

 10 of fore wings is from the cell, nor to Saluria, as there is no 

 frontal tubercle. Altoona is made a synonym of Tolima by 

 Ragonot, but I have seen no male and cannot say whether the 

 antennas in this species have a tuft of scales or not. I assume 

 that they do, in placing the species in Pectinigera, as the posi 

 tion to which Hampson assigns the species in the Romanoff 

 Memoirs implies that such is the case. 



Two small specimens from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell from 

 Mesilla Park, New Mexico, emerged August 4 and n. They 

 are labeled as follows : 



" Bred from Orthezia an nee on Atriplex canescens. Larva 



* Rom. Mem., vin, p. 109, PI. XLVI, fig. 24, 1901. 



