THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 7 



TINEINA FROM TEXAS. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 (Continued from page 240, vol. vi.) 



Since the preceding portion of this paper, as well as much of that 

 which follows in this and some following numbers, were placed in the 

 hands of the Editor of the Can. Ent., I have received from Mr. Belfrage 

 .another collection of Tineina from Basque County, Texas, containing 

 additional specimens of species found in the first collection, and several 

 new species. The only species contained in this last collection which has 

 been previously described from more Western localities, and were not 

 contained in the former collection, are Gelechia solaniella ? Cham, and 

 Strobisia iridipennella Clem, and Theisoa bifasciella. The specimens of the 

 first named differ somewhat from bred specimens from Kentucky and 

 Missouri, so that I mark them doubtfully as of this species \ I however 

 believe them to be the same. Strobisia venustella Cham., I am now 

 satisfied, is a synonym for S. iridipennella Clem. Because of the presence 

 of several brilliant blue spots on the wings of my specimens, not men- 

 tioned in Dr. Clemens' description, I was led to believe that they belonged 

 to a different species. But the individuals vary in this respect. Mr. 

 Stainton, in his edition of the Clemens' papers, has corrected Dr. 

 Clemens' description so far as it differed from specimens in his collection. 

 Dr. Clemens' description was probably correct of the specimens observed 

 by him. The single Texas specimen in this collection has a less number 

 of the blue spots than any other that I have seen. I insert here a few 

 descriptions of species contained in Mr. Belfrage"s last collection, which 

 are new, reserving for a future paper other new species and notes on those 

 described in papers already in the hands of the Editor. The second 

 collection was made in Basque County, Texas. 



HYPONOMEUTA. 



H. 5-punctella. N. sp. 



Snowy white. On the forewings are five distinct, circular, black spots, 

 three of them forming a line along the middle of the wing, the other two 

 being in the dorsal half of the wing, one of them opposite the space 

 between the first and second, and the other opposite the space between 

 the second and third spots. The first spot is placed about the basal 



