34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Z. parvkristatella. N. sp. 



White, suffused with purplish brown ; the second joint of the palpi 

 suffused with purplish brown, and a brown annulus about the middle ; 

 antennae annulate with pale brown ; primaries suffused with purplish 

 brown, with an oblique brown streak beginning on the costa near the 

 base, and extending nearly across the wing ; another about the middle, 

 crossing the wing, and a third less oblique and shorter about the beginning 

 of the costal ciliae, and produced backwards along the middle of the 

 apical part of the wing, interrupting an indistinct, angulated white fascia; 

 these streaks are not continuous, but are rather composed of small pur- 

 plish brown spots of slightly raised ? scales, with a more distinct raised 

 tuft near the dorsal margin in each of the first two streaks, and between 

 the small spots the wing is more deeply suffused than elsewhere. Dorsal 

 ciliae silvery, those of the apex suffused with purplish ; there is a narrow 

 streak of dark brown scales along the middle of the apex. Al. ex. i\ 5 

 inch. 



Z. miscecalonella. N. sp. 



White, suffused with ochreous yellow, with a raised tuft of the same 

 hue in the middle of the disc on the primaries ; basal third of the 

 primaries (except the base of the dorsal margin) brown, with- reddish 

 ochreous scales intermixed, and containing two tufts of dark brown raised 

 scales, one of which is close to the dorsal margin, and before it to the 

 base the margin is of the general hue (white, suffused with reddish 

 ochreous), dusted a little with reddish fuscous; opposite to the dorsal 

 tuft, just within the costal margin, is another larger raised tuft ; the middle 

 part of the wing is yellowish white, and behind it the wing is deeply 

 suffused with reddish ochreous, containing about its middle a tuft of dark 

 brown scales ; apical part of the wing suffused with reddish ochreous and 

 fuscous ; second joint of the palpi pale ochreous yellow, externally fus- 

 cous, and the third joint is dark fuscous, except at the base and extreme 

 tip. At ex. ]/ 2 inch. Season, May. 



Z. fuscocristatclla. N. sp. 



White ; second joint of the palpi with two pale fuscous annulations • 

 antennae white, annulate with fuscous ; head and upper surface of the 

 thorax white ; there is a small dark brown spot on each side of the 

 thorax, over the base of the wings ; primaries white, with two small dark 

 brown spots on the extreme costa at the base, two other larger ones just 



