THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 227 



A NEW GENUS OF TORTRICIDiE.* 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Miiseicm, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



In the early' spring, from the middle to the end of April, Prof. 

 Lintner and Mr. Hill have taken near Albany a rather small and incon- 

 spicuously colored moth, remarkable for its diurnal activity. At first sight 

 I did not recognize it as belonging to the Tortricid^, but on examination 

 it shows the family characters and seems to be allied to the European 

 genus Cheimatophila. But it is not vein 4, but vein 5 that is wanting on 

 the hind wings, and the other characters sufficiently separate our species. 



Exetitera, ?i. g. 



Sub-median vein of secondaries hairy above at base. Ocelli. Eyes 

 naked. Antennae of the male brush-like, of the female simple. Fore 

 wings narrow, long, with parallel costal and internal margins ; apices not 

 produced; external margin short and even; 12 veined, all the veins 

 separate ; vein i furcate at base ; 2 from median at two-thirds from 

 the base; vein 7 joins the external margin below apex; 10 is thrown off 

 nearly mid-way between 9 and 11. Hind wings 7-veined, 5 wanting ; 6 

 and 7 from one point ; 3 and 4 near together at base ; 2 at three-fourths 

 from the base of wing. Fringes moderate ; ovipositor slightly exserted. 

 Palpi bushy, third article moderate. Front hairy, thorax smooth, legs 

 untufted. 



ExeJitera apriliana, n. s. / 



^ % . Concolorous, dark olivaceous fuscous, a little mottled, immacu- 

 late ; hind wings smoky fuscous, sub-pellucid, paler beneath. Under the 

 glass the fore wings and thorax are seen to be covered with whitish-tipped 

 fuscous scales. Length of ^ primary 11 mil.; length of % body 9 mil. 



Prof. C. H. Fernald, Orono, Maine, is now engaged in the study of our N. Am. 

 Tortrices, and I have relinquished to him my accumulated material for the purpose. I 

 hope my friends will supply him with the necessary material to enable him to give us a 

 full and much needed paper on the group. 



