130 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



cause confusion by naming what might prove to be a described species in 

 a difficult genus which I had not specially studied, I refrained from further 

 describing the perfect insect. Unfortunately, this precaution seems to 

 have been unavailing, for several have written to me for further information 

 on the species ; and, as the name has been introduced into published lists 

 of North American Lepidoptera, I have thought it best to prepare the 

 description here submitted, particularly as further study has convinced 

 me that the species here named does not agree with any of the described 

 species of this genus. 



Described from 9 specimens (3 males and 6 females). Types of 

 both sexes deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 



A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 



CHOREUTIN.^. 



BY PROF. C. H. FERNALD, AMHERST, MASS. 



Genus Kearfottia 



Frons smooth and rounded, with the scales inclining downward, not 

 closely appressed, erect on the vertex ; labial palpi ascending, the second 

 segment with more or less separated scales beneath, recalling the genus 

 Choreutis, third segment a little shorter, naked and somewhat pointed ; 

 maxillary palpi present; proboscis very short ; eyes hemispherical; ocelli 

 absent ; antennae not quite half the length of the costa, ciliate, the ciliae 

 nearly as long as the diameter of the shaft ; thorax with a small tuft at 

 the end above. 



Fore wings subelliptical, nearly three times as long as wide ; vein ib 

 with a long fork at the base and ending near the outer third of the hind 

 margin ; cell about two-thirds of the length of the wing ; vein 2 arises 

 before the end of the median, a little further from 3 than that is from 4 ; 

 veins 3 to 10 nearly equidistant at the origin; 1 1 arises from the sub- 

 costal vein near the end of the first third of the cell ; 7 ends in the outer 

 margin and 8 in the costa ; the anterior intercellular vein arises from the 

 subcostal intermediate between the origin of veins 10 and 11 and forks 

 near the cross vein, the forks running into 7 and 8 ; the posterior inter- 

 cellular vein arises at the base of the wing and continues beyond the cell 

 as vein 6. 



Hind wings about half as long as wide, subsemicircular ; median 

 vein not pectinate above towards the base; three internal veins, vein ib 

 forked at the base, 2 from near che beginning of the outer third of the 



