428 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., '09 



Notes on Chambers' Species of Tineina. 



BY ANNETTE F. BRAUN, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Of the innumerable species of Tineina, described by the late 

 Mr. V. T. Chambers, of Covington, Kentucky, not a few are 

 at the present time unrecognized or imperfectly known. This 

 is due to a number of circumstances, all of which have com- 

 bined to render the identification of Chambers' species difficult 

 and have led in a number of cases to unavoidable errors. Ap- 

 parently some of Chambers' types were never deposited in any 

 institution and these often represented species of which the 

 short description is inadequate for identification. Other spe- 

 cies were described from specimens in such poor condition 

 that the author himself often expressed doubts as to the cor- 

 rectness of his observations. A third category includes spe- 

 cies which were named from preparatory stages alone and re- 

 ferred in some cases to the wrong genera. In large genera, 

 where some species have been described from imago, others 

 from larva or mine, the confusion can be cleared up only by 

 the rearing of all of such species. 



The writer is making an effort to rediscover by breeding 

 and collecting those of Chambers' little known species, which 

 were described from Ohio and Kentucky, with the intention 

 of publishing from time to time notes which shall give addi- 

 tional information on life histories, correct faulty descrip- 

 tions, and give complete descriptions of species known only 

 in the larval state. 



Trichotaphe nonstrigella Chambers. 



Dasyccra nonstrigella Chambers, Bull, U S. Geol. Surv., IV, 92, 1878. 

 Trichotaphe nonstrigella. Busck, Dyar's List N. A. Lep. No. 5661, 

 1902; Proc., U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 910, 1903. 



This rather remarkable species, which was originally de- 

 scribed by Mr. Chambers from a single female specimen, I 

 have found very common locally around Cincinnati, but until 

 a few years ago, its early stages remained entirely unknown. 



During the latter half of April and the beginning of May, 



