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The species is even more similar to E. bittenella Busck, which 

 is best distinguished from it by the irregularity of the form 

 of the black dots as well as their quite different positions. 



Ethmia abdominella, new species. 



Labial palpi white, dusted and barred with black. Face leaden-white 

 with a large black dot on the vertex and head. Thorax dirty leaden- 

 white, with six black dots. Forewings with costal half dark blackish 

 brown with scattered black longitudinal streaks and with irregular black 

 prominences into the lighter lead-colored dorsal half, which contains three 

 independent black spots. A series of black dots along apical and terminal 

 margin. Cilia dirty white. Hind wings whitish, semitransparent on basal 

 half, with smoky tip and terminal edge. Abdomen golden yellow. Legs 

 dirty white; tarsal joints with indistinct black annulations. 



Alar expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat: Tehuacan, Mexico. R. Miiller, collector. 



Type: No. 14525, U. S. National Museum. 



Nearest to E. arctostaphylclla Walsingham, but easily 

 differentiated by its larger size and darker head and thorax, 

 also by its additional black spots in the light dorsal portion 

 of the wing. 



Genus CALANTIGA Zeller. 



Type: albella Zeller. 



This genus must, I believe, be included in the family 

 Hemerophilidse. The type, Calantica albella Zeller, has the 

 following generic characters : 



Antennae less than the length of the fore wings, simple. Labial palpi 

 long, thin, weak, upturned, reaching vertex; terminal joint nearly as 

 long as second, tolerably pointed. Fore wings broad, with slightly arched 

 costa, pointed apex, well-defined tornus, and slightly sinuate termen; 12 

 veins, all separate; 7 to termen; one of my slides shows veins 2 and 

 3 stalked; in another they are closely approximate. Hind wings are broad 

 as the fore wings; 8 veins; 3 and 4 stalked; 6 and 7 parallel. 



In this connection I would call attention to the genus 

 Herrickia Staudinger, which in the European check-lists 

 has been placed in the Hyponomeutidse close to Calantica 

 Zeller; if, however, the single specimen of the type of this 

 genus, excelsella Staudinger, in the U. S. National Museum 

 is authentic, as it presumably is, determined and labele.d by 

 O. Hoffman, this genus belongs to the (Ecophoridae and agrees 

 well with my later genus Fabiola in venation and oral charac- 

 ters. As the general habitus is rather different, I prefer not 

 to make Fabiola a synonym on the evidence of a single 

 specimen, but the genus should be kept in mind in the future 

 study of the family (Ecophoridse. 



