98 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '22 



appearance and structure the images are closely similar to the 

 Lyonetiidae and Opostegidae. They are strongly flattened 

 moths, with flat coxae closely appressed to the body, usually 

 with smooth heads, rising to a rounded ridge between the 

 antennae, but often with a loose tuft on the vertex, as in Oino- 

 pJiila itself, and rather small maxillary palpi of the folded type. 

 The labial palpi have a well-set-off, fusiform, terminal joint as 

 in the Tineidae, and are normally without bristles. The vena- 

 tion in the known genera is more or less reduced. Besides the 

 well-known European and tropical genera Oinof>liila and Opo- 

 gona, and the following genus, there are numerous less known 

 tropical forms, gradually grading into the Lyonetiidae and the 

 true Tineidae. As a rule nothing is known of the life histories 

 of these and nothing has been published on several interesting 

 points in their structure, so that it is impossible to say to which 

 family they belong, unless the families be combined. 

 The present form may be characterized as follows : 



PHAEOSES new genus (</>atds brown; 0-775 moth). 

 Head smooth-scaled, as a rule slightly ruffled on the vertex, 

 but without any definite tufting; eyes small, far apart; ocelli 

 absent ; front somewhat retreating, but convex, the rounded 

 ridge between the antennae less prominent than in Opogona. 

 Antennae three-fifths as long as fore wing, evidently turned 

 back across the eye in repose ; scape a little longer than width 

 of eye, a little broadened, but without eyecap or pecten ; shaft 

 with a single whorl of appressed scales on each segment, with 

 a few weak setae passing between their bases. Maxillary palpi 

 small but folded, and stronger than in the Gelechiidae ; tongue 

 obsolete ; labial palpi with basal joint short, second upturned, 

 smooth and concave on upper surface, fitting the face, but nor- 

 mally drooping in death, lower edge rough-scaled ; third seg- 

 ment short-fusiform, two-thirds as long as second, rough-scaled 

 and flattened dorso-ventrally, commonly held porrect ; no bris- 

 tles visible. Body strongly depressed, the abdomen wry flat; 

 coxae and especially fore coxae broad and closely pressed to 

 body; fore tibia very short and stout, with strong epiphysis ; 

 middle legs normal ; hind tibia with spurs at a third its length, 



