30 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



TINEINA FROM TEXAS. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 



(Continued from page 12), 



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LAVERNA. 



I have only examined the neuration of one of the species which I 

 here place in this genus, but they are all evidently congeneric, and the 

 neuration of Z. lyonetiella while not that of L. cephalonthiella, nor of either 

 of the three species figured in Ins. Brit., v. j., does not differ therefrom 

 more than they differ from each other. The limits of the genus are 

 perhaps not so clearly defined as might b?. wished in respect to the 

 neuration and the raised tufts on the primaries, but as the genus is at 

 present recognized, the proper location of these species is in it. The 

 neuration of L. cephalonthiella is almost identical with that of Z. Staintom, 

 the chief difference being that the cell of the hind wings is closed and the 

 superior branch of the fork of the apical vein goes to the costal instead 

 of the dorsal margin. The neuration of the primaries is identical with 

 that of Slaintoni, except that the submedian is furcate at both ends. In 

 Z. lyonetiella the neuration of the primaries is exactly that of Staintoni, 

 but the secondaries are narrower, the costal vein is very long, attaining 

 the margin beyond the end of the cell, which is closed ; the subcostal is 

 obsolete from the base to the end of the cell, beyond which it is distinct 

 and furcate, one branch going to the apex and the other to the dorsal 

 margin ; the median divides into three equidistant branches ; the sub- 

 median and internal veins are distinct, thus resembling the neuration of 

 Chauliodus perhaps as nearly as that of Laverna. It is, however, I think 

 nearer that of Z. longiella. 



Z. oinothcrceella. N. sp. * 



Second joint of the palpi silvery white, with a dark brown spot beneath 

 near the tip ; third joint silvery white, with the apex and a spot beneath 

 at the base brown. Antennae pale yellowish : face, vertex, thorax and 

 forewings silvery white, except as follows : there is a spot at the middle of 

 the anterior margin of the thorax, one also at its tip, and four small ones 

 forming a transverse row across the middle, all of which are shining dark 

 brown ; there is also a similar spot at the base of the hind margin of the 

 forewings, which to the naked eye appears to be on the margin of the 

 thorax before the tip ; and there is another just within the dorsal margin 



