92 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



TINEINA FROM TEXAS. 



P,Y V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, 

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CECOPHORA. 



CE. basqueella. 



Palpi dark brown, with a yellowish white annulus around the middle 

 and tip of the second and third joints. Head yellowish white ; antennae 

 dark brown, with the extreme tip of the basal joint white. Thorax above 

 and base of the forewings brown ; dorsal margin of the forewings, from 

 the base to the ciliae, pale orange yellow, with a broad fascia of the same 

 hue at about the basal fourth, passing across the wing and gradually 

 narrowing to the costa. Behind this fascia to the apex the wing is brown, 

 containing an irregular yellowish spot at about the middle of the costal 

 margin, and a white one immediately before the ciliae. The brown 

 color has a rich maroon tint, and not a dead lustreless hue. Legs and 

 tarsi brown, annulate with pale yellowish. Venter brown, with two 

 yellowish bands before the apex. A/, ex. y 2 inch. Basque Co. 



GRACILARIA. 



G. belfrageella. N. sp. 



Antennae purple brown ; face and palpi white, the second joint of the 

 maxillary palpi being tipped beneath its apex with purple brown ; thorax 

 and wings purple brown. The costal triangle is pale lemon yellow 

 (nearly white), reaches the fold, where it is truncated, and it extends as a 

 wide band along the costal margin to the ciliae. Sides of the thorax 

 purple brown ; anterior and middle legs purple brown, with white tarsi ; 

 hind legs whitish, except the apical halves of the femora, which are purple 

 brown. AL ex. tV inch. 



THEISOA. 



It is possible that this genus ought not to have been separated from 

 Elachista. Its more elongate palpi, the horizontal position in repose of 

 the wings, and the dissimilarity of ornamentation of the wing from that 

 of other species of Elachista, induced me to separate T. bifascidia from 



