30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



TINEINA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS^ COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, 



POLYHYMNO. 



Instead of " extreme tip hooked backwards/' as in the generic diag- 

 nosis, it would be better to say extreme tip curved outwards. 



P. fuscostrigella. N. sp. 



• On page 247 of volume six, I have described a species as 

 P. luteostrigella, which is scarcely an appropriate name, as the streaks are 

 golden rather than luteous. The markings in this species are identical 

 with those of luteostrigella, except that the streaks are fuscous instead of 

 golden, though each of them becomes yellow before the apex. In the 

 description of luteostrigella it is stated that the streak within the dorsal 

 margin and the inferior branch of the median meet in the apical part of 

 the wing, and then immediately separate and meet again at the apex ; 

 perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they cross each other 

 instead of meet and separate, and in some specimens they simply meet 

 and pass around the dorsal margin to the apex together (being margined 

 along the base of the ciliae with yellow) ; in such cases the space between 

 the two branches of the median streak is streaked with fuscous, which 

 seems to be a continuation of the intro-dorsal streak which has become 

 confluent with or interrupted by the dorsal branch of the median. In 

 both species the third and fourth costal streaks are very oblique, the 

 third pointing backwards and the fourth forwards and converging to the 

 same point, and behind the fourth are two short oblique dark brown 

 streaks pointing backwards to the extreme apex. The account of these 

 streaks in the description of luteostrigella is slightly inaccurate and repre- 

 sents one more streak than actually exists. The above account is correct 

 for both species. All of the streaks are confluent before the apex, and 

 all become yellow at or before their confluence, and the caudate tip is 

 yellow, becoming brown at the apex ; beneath the caudate tip and oppo- 

 site to the fourth costal streak is a black dot (not mentioned in the 

 description of luteostrigella), and there are in this species two other minute 

 and indistinct ones before it in the base of the ciliae, which at this part 



