THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 105 



TINEINA FROM TEXAS. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 (Continued from page 95.) 



PH^TUSA, gen 710V. 



I define this new genus with great hesitation and doubt as to the pro- 

 priety of so doing. The only reason for separating the species described 

 below, and which I place in this genus, from Evippe (vid. E. prunifoliella, 

 ante v. 5, p. 185) is found in the neuration. The other characters are 

 those of Evippe, and, as stated below, it is very near to E. prunifoliella in 

 ornamentation. The neuration of the forewings is exactly that of 

 Eidothea vagatioella (he. eit. sup. p. 187), which it also resembles in 

 ornamentation, but less closely than it does Evippe prunifoliella. In the 

 latter species the last branch of the median vein of the fore wings is 

 simple ; in E. vagatioella and the species described below it is furcate at 

 its origin. In E. prunifoliella and E. vagatioella the cell of the hind wings 

 is open ; in this species it is distinctly closed. In vagatioella the median 

 gives off a single branch, and there is an independent discal branch which 

 arises at the median ; in prunifoliella the median gives off two branches and 

 has the discal branch vein as in vagatioella ; in this species it gives off the 

 two branches, and has the discal branch as in prunifoliella, but in addition 

 has another superior discal branch. Probably all three species should be 

 included in the same genus, though vagatioella has the palpi longer than 

 either of the others. In prunifoliella the second and third joints of the 

 palpi are of aboui equal length • in this species the third joint is a little 

 longer than the second. In other respects the generic characters are the 

 same. In all three the vertex is wider than long, and the face nearly as 

 wide as long and very full or convex in front. All three form a section of 

 Geleehia, and Taygete diffcili sella, Heliee paUidoehrella, and Sinoe fuscopali- 

 della are very closely allied to them structurally, though differing widely 

 from them and resembling each other in ornamentation. Neda plutella 

 also resembles this species in ornamentation, but the palpi are very 

 different, and it differs widely in several respects. 



The following remarks, in addition to what has heretofore been written 

 on these allied species, may not be inappropriate in this connection, 

 though they contain the results of examinations of the species before I 

 saw the species described below. 



