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MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



EY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 Continued from Page 17G. 



Errata. — For Eidothoa, p. 186, read Eidothea. 



Since the preceding # accounts of the genera Evippe, Eidothea and 

 Helice were sent to the publishers, I have taken a single specimen of the 

 species described below. Its small size, general appearance and the 

 tufts of raised scales at first inclined me to place it near Larwia ; but a 

 closer examination shows it to belong to the Gelechidai, and to the same 

 group (or subsection of Gelechia) with Evippe, &c. and Gelechia difficili- 

 sella. I am not altogether satisfied that I am right in separating these 

 species from Gelechia, in the present heterogeneous condition of the group 

 called by that name. But that group is already so large, and contains 

 such a mixed assemblage of small moths, that the existence of such a 

 group is rather a hindrance than an assistance to the student of the 

 Tineina, unless, indeed, he is content to use it as a mere limbo to which 

 may be consigned anything allied to the Gelechida which cannot be 

 satisfactorily located elsewhere. 



Neither am I entirely satisfied that I am right in separating these 

 genera, Sinoe t Agnippe, Evippe, Eidothea, Helice and Taygete (vid. post) 

 from each other, so nearly are they related, yet the process of division 

 once begun I have not found it practicable to separate them otherwise 

 than as above indicated. 



The species described below resembles Gelechia difficilisella and Helice 

 pallidochrella, and even Gelechia obliqui-strigella in the pattern of colora- 

 tion. From the latter, however, it is distinct as to the neuration, whilst 

 in this respect it closely resembles the two former, as it does also as to 

 the palpi, whilst it differs from them decidedly by the absence of the 

 tongue. In the hind wings the apical branch of the subcostal is delivered 

 below the tip in this species, instead of at it as in Gelechia difficiliselhh 

 and in this respect only do the hind wings differ ; and the only difference 

 in the fore wings is the wider angle between the first and second branches 



