THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 55 



ERIPHTA gm. HOT. 



Allied to Elachista and Laverna. Indeed, but for the more elongate 

 palpi, and without having examined the neuration, I should have placed 

 it in Elachista. 



Palpi rather long, drooping in the dead insect, divergent ; third jokit 

 pointed and about half as long as the second. Antennae simple, about 

 as long as the body. 



Primaries lanceolate ; the submedian is furcate at the base ; the cell 

 is truncate (the subcostal and median running nearly parallel, and the 

 discal vein being straight) ; the subcostal gives off three branches before 

 the end of the cell, and a fourth at the end has a common origin with the 

 fifth or apical branch, which goes to the apex ; the discal has a central 

 branch to the dorsal margin, and the median is furcate from the end of 

 the cell, both branches being short. It thus resembles Z. astra or Z. 

 iongiella, Ins. Brit. 



Secondaries linear lanceolate. Internal and submedian veins distinct, 

 the latter furcate on the dorsal margin ; median obsolete to the end of 

 the cell, where it divides into two distinct branches ; discal short, distinct,, 

 closing the cell about the middle of the wing ; subcostal indistinct to the 

 end of the cell, where it becomes distinct and bends up to the costa just 

 beyond the middle. (Possibly, however, it would be more correct to 

 consider what I have called the ' internal ; as the submedian, and what 

 I have called ' submedian ' as the median ; and what I have called the 

 1 median ' as a furcate branch of the discal continued faintly through the 

 cell to the base. If this view is correct, then the cell is unclosed between 

 the submedian and the furcate discal branch, and thus the neuration of 

 both wings would resemble those of Z. longiella, and the insect would be 

 a Laverna. 



E. concolorella. A T . sp. 



Dark bronzy brown ; unicolorous. Al. ex. yi inch. Season, July. 



ELACHISTA. 



E. ? concolorella. N. sp. 



Without the aid of a lens, this insect would be mistaken for the 

 preceding. It is, however, quite distinct. The antennae are but little 

 more than half as long as the wings, and the palpi are not much more. 



