110 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



exists, or which I fancy to exist, between these small genera of Glyphip- 

 terygidce and the ElochistadcE of Mr. Stainton's classification. I can not 

 now refer to the place where I liave alluded to the subject, nor am I 

 altogether certain that I have published the observations which then 

 suggested themselves on this subject, as at that time I only knew the 

 Glyphipterygidce through the writings of other Entomologists. But it 

 certainly seemed to me that the larvae of the above-mentioned genera of 

 small species being unknown, there was nothing in the structure of the 

 imago to exclude them from the Elachistadce, though the larger genera, 

 Ascalepia, Glyphipteiyx, etc., were allied sufficiently nearly to the Gele- 

 chidce. But such species as ^cJwiia dentella and Lithariapteryx 

 abroniceella unite these small genera and Glyphipteryx, so that they cannot 

 be placed in separate families, though the apodal larvae of Antispiia, 

 Heliozella, etc., do not offer any strong affinities with either Glyphipterygidce 

 or Elachistadce. While, therefore, it is true that these small genera can 

 not be separated from Glyphipteryx and placed in a different family 

 because of being so connected, nevertheless, taken by themselves, in the 

 imago, they still seem to me to show strong affinities with the Elachistadce; 

 and, indeed, the older Entomologists placed the European species of 

 Antispiia in the genus Elachista. Do the Glyphipierygidce afford a passage 

 from the Gelechida to the Elachistadce 1 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TEXAN ANISOTA. 



BY LEON F. HARVEY, M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The following species, new to the fauna of the United States, have 

 been collected by Mr. L. Heiligbrodt, in Bastrop Co., Texas, and the 

 types are contained in the beautiful collection of my friend, Mr. Otto 

 Meske, in Albany. 



Anisota Heiligbrodti, n. s. 



^ ^ . The antennae of the male are broadly bipectinate, except at the 

 tips ; those of the female are simple. This species differs from its allies 

 by its purely gray color and by the fore wings being covered by two nar- 



