THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 169 



SOME NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PHYCITIN^ 



BY GEO. D. HULST, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



Tetralopha formosella, n. sp. 



Expands i8 mm. Head nearly pure white ; thorax white with black 

 scales intermixed ; fore wings pure white, sometimes intermixed with 

 black, and with black spot on costa to basal line ; basal line black, with 

 three l^ong black teeth on outer side ; middle field whitish, costa towards 

 base black; along inner margin and reaching half way across wing, dull 

 brick red, broken by median cross scale ridge, which is of intermingled 

 black and white ; outer line white, edged on both sides with blackish ; 

 outer field grayish, mixed with black, much darker along costa to apex; 

 hind wings fuscous, much darker along outer edge ; beneath fuscous on all 

 wings, an outer lighter cross line showing on all wings. 



Texas. National Museum type number is 4703. 



Mineola scitnlella, n. sp. 



Of the size and much the appearance of A. tricolorella, Grt. It 

 differs in the much more vivid colouring, being thus a much more showy 

 insect, and especially in having the outer cross line edged outwardly with 

 dull red. 



Colorado. 



Mineola rubesceniella, n. sp. 



Expands 24-26 mm. Fore wings a smooth reddish gray, the reddish 

 a little more pronounced along costa and about the outer line ; a faint 

 reddish spot at middle of base along inner margin ; a broad dark red 

 basal cross line, reaching from subcostal vein to inner margin, narrowing 

 towards the latter ; discal spots faint, geminate, superimposed ; hind 

 wings shining fuscous, marginal line much darker ; beneath an even light 

 fuscous. 



Tennessee. In appearance very considerably like Acrobasis rtibri- 

 fasciella, Pack. National Museum type number is 4707. 



Aa-ocauia, n. gen. 



Palpi of (^ erect, recurved, rather slender, somewhat long ; maxillary 

 palpi small ; tongue strong ; antennae with tooth on inner side of basal 

 member as in Acrobasis, then bent over basal member, with a slight scale 

 ridge in the bend, the segments beyond this evenly ciliated with hairs on 

 the under side ; thorax untufted ; abdomen tufted at end ; fore wings 1 1 



