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describe the two Gelechiidae in recognized genera, as the groups 

 of the family to which they belong are rather in need of revi- 

 sion as a whole. 



XYLORMISA new genus (uAov wood and Honnisa). 



Near Honnisa. Male antennae unipectinate and heavily 

 ciliate at base, and bipectinate beyond the knot, which is about 

 a third way out from the base, larger than is usual in Honnisa, 

 and apparently not provided with curved spines ; second seg- 

 ment of palpus more definitely upcurved, but not strongly so, 

 the third short, and normally erect, as in Honnisa. Fore wing 

 with well-marked apex ; accessory cell obscure, very small and 

 narrow, with R2 to 4 (veins 8 to 10) stalked from its apex. 



This Noctuid genus is closely related to Honnisa and I 

 might not separate it, save for the fact it will run to a different 

 point in Schaus's Key (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 50: 262). It 

 will run to alternative 67, where it is separable by the pectinate 

 antennae. In fact the pectinate antennae witli a knot hardly 

 occur save in Honnisa, which has a large normal accessory 

 cell. The male fore legs are not unlike those of Honnisa, with 

 trochanter very slender, and much longer than femur, and 

 tarsus concealed. 



Genotype : Xylonnisa lonisiana n. sp. 



Xylormisa lonisiana new species. 



Ground light wood-brown, formed of dark brown dusting on a clay- 

 colored base. Head and thorax paler ; antenna concolorous, with the 

 swelling somewhat darkened ; palpus with second segment heavily dusted, 

 except extreme apex, third segment dark brown, with apex more nr 

 less distinctly whitish ; legs heavily dusted and shaded with blackish, 

 especially the mid-tibia and tarsus. Abdomen lightly dusted with pale 

 gray toward base, the apical segments of the male pale brown-gray with 

 whitish margins, in the female not darkened. 



Fore wing becoming darker at the margin; orbicular and claviiorm 

 represented by vertically placed black points, reniform of two such 

 points, with a third dot below them in the fold, postmedian line repre- 

 sented by a strongly outcurved series of four or five Mack dots between 

 the veins, on the costal part of the wing; sttbterminal waved, pale, ol so 

 lete at the costa ; a broken black terminal line; basal half of fringe dark 

 gray, with pale bars in it corresponding to the black terminal bars. 



Hind wing paler, being dusted with pale gray like ihe abdomen, with 

 faint shaded pale postmedial and subterminal bands, parallel to the outer 



