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the inside into a deep furrow or pocket its entire length, the edges 

 scaled, becoming tufted on posterior edges outwardly ; beyond sinus 

 filiform ; from beyond basal joint the antennae are unipectinate, the 

 pectinations one on each segment, filiform, being longest just beyond 

 sinus, and these five or six times the diameter of the stem, each armed 

 with straight parallel hairs on each side ; end segments ciliate. Antennae 

 of $ filiform ciliate. Thorax and abdomen rather stout, the genital 

 armature of ^ prominent. Fore wings rather elongate, subtriangular, 1 1 

 veins, 4 and 5 separate, 6 from cell near angle, 8 on 7, 9 and 10 from cell. 

 Hind wings broad, 8 veins, 2 near angle, 3 from angle separate from 4, 

 4 and 5 stemmed half their length, 6 separate from 7. Cell very short, 

 not more than ^ wing length. Legs as usual in the group, rather heavy. 



A very peculiar genus, with Ceara, Rag., unique m the unipectinate 

 antennre of the ^ . 



M. nubilella, n. sp. — Expands 21-23 '^'^- Palpi dark fuscous, 

 lighter on inner side ; front fuscous, much darker in front of eyes ; in one 

 specimen purplish in middle, antennae fuscous ; thorax fuscous, with 

 purple tint more marked in front, and lightening into grayish behind \ 

 abdomen fuscous to light fuscous-gray, somewhat purplish on anterior 

 segment. All the segments darker lined ; fore wings dark fuscous, 

 broadly shaded with blackish longitudinally on veins, and lightened with 

 white scales on anterior half, and submarginally making these portions 

 gray, with blackish dashes of ground colour, the gray being most decided 

 on sub-basal and central anterior portions. Over the wings on the 

 intervenular spaces is a purplish stain, more evident posteriorly; cross 

 lines faint, whitish, the inner shown mostly by the heavier dark angulate, 

 somewhat diffuse, blackish outer shading, the outer fine, rounded outwardly 

 in middle, with indistinct dentate tendency ; discal spots geminate, 

 black ; marginal line broken, black ; fringe fuscous. Hind wings dark 

 smooth fuscous, lighter basally and along inner margin, the lines darker. 

 Beneath even smooth fuscous, the fore wings the darker ; marginal line 

 blackish. 



Specimens from National Museum and Department of Agriculture, 



taken in Maryland, Florida and Alabama. The insect, which promises to 



be of considerable economic importance, will have its habits and history 



made known by the Department of Agriculture. The type number in 



National Museum collection is 4393. 



