THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2l7 



Entomologist ; we commend them to the careful perusal of our readers. 



Our own Society was well represented in this gathering by the presence 



of the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., E. Baynes Reed and your President 



I shall not attempt, gentlemen, to trespass longer on your time and 



patience. Thanking you for your kind partiality in electing me to fill so 



important an office among you, 



I have the honor to be very sincerely yours, 



Wm. Saunders. 

 London, September, 1876. 



TINEINA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



LITHARIAPTERYX, geil 110V. 



L. abroniceella. N. sp. (Or, as it may be popularly translated — the 

 delicate little gem-wing, or gem-wing of the abronia.) 



This insect is interesting not only for the elegance of its adornment, 

 but equally so for the relation it bears to other genera of the Glyphiptery- 

 gidce. Comparing it with Glyphipttryx fuscoviridella. G. thrasonella, 

 AZchmia dentella, Perittia obscuripunctella, and Tenagma s err iridium , its 

 relationship to them may be thus stated : Lacking some of the characters 

 of each genus, it combines many of each. Like Tenagma and unlike the 

 others, it has the submedian vein of the fore wings not furcate at the 

 base ; the form of wings is almost exactly as in sEchmia, but not quite so 

 wide, and the tuft of scales projecting from the hind margin in SEchmiot, 

 is absent ; the neuration of the fore wings is almost exactly as in Alchmia, 

 except that, as above stated, the submedian is simple in this species, and 

 there is a disti?ict secondary cell as in Glyphipteryx. The neuration of the 

 hind wings resembles that of Tenagma, the cell being unclosed, but this 

 species has the submedian furcate on the margin and two independent 

 discal veins going to the hind margin, instead of one, as in Tenagma (or 

 it would resemble the neuration of the hind wings of JEchmia if the 

 discal vein, the submedian and the first branch of the median were absent 

 in that genus.) The characters of the head and its appendages are very 



