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NEW AMERICAN TINEINA. 



BY AUGUST BUSCK, U. S. NAT. MUS., WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The following seven species of Tineina were part of a large and 

 well-preserved collection of Microlepidoptera, recently received for deter- 

 mination from ^^r. Henry Engel, Pittsburgh Pennsylvajiia^ who has 

 presented the types, together with many otlier specimens of other species, 

 to the U. S. National Museum. 



Five of the following species have previously been collected 

 around Washington, L). C, by the writer. 



Anacarnpsis fionstrigella, new species. — Antennae black, with silvery- 

 white annulations. Labial palpi bright deep ochreous, tips of terminal 

 joints slightly shaded with black. Eyes dark red. P'ace white, iridescent, 

 gradually mixed with the darker colour of the vertex. Head and thorax 

 dark olive brown, iridescent. Basal two-thirds of fore wings dark olive, 

 apical part deep blackish brown, with a few golden-brown scales just 

 before apex. Hind wings dark purplish fuscous, with dorsal cilia white. 

 Abdomen above dark purplish brown, with each joint tipped with silvery- 

 white, the entire body below shining straw yellow. Legs straw-coloured, 

 with broad black bars on the exterior side. 



Alar expanse, 15 mm. 



Habitat: Oak Station, Pe?insylvaJiia,]w\y. U. S. Nat. Mus. Type 

 No. 9792. 



This species is nearest to A?iaca??ipsis trisirigel/a, Walsingham, and 

 very similar to it in size and colour, but is devoid of all the prominent 

 white apical lines characteristic of that species. 



Trichotaphe Washi?igto7iiella, new species. — Antennae serrate, deep 

 blackish brown, without lighter annulations. Labial palpi with smoothly 

 appressed thickening of the second joint, blackish brown, colour on the 

 inner side of second joint and on the terminal joint slightly mixed with 

 ochreous. Head and thorax dark purplish brown^ face a shade lighter. 

 Fore wings dark purplish brown ; on the fold are two connected, round, 

 velvety black blotches, the outer one extending up in the middle of the 

 wing, and containing a few ochreous scales. At the end of the cell is a 

 somewhat larger aggregation of ochreous scales, forming two small 

 indistinct moon-shaped spots, separated and partly surrounded by velvety 

 black scales. Just before apex is a transverse velvety black fascia, 

 outwardlv nearly straight and parallel with the edge of the wing, inwardly 



April, 1906. 



