HO THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 Continued from Page 91. 



Errata. — For T. eunitarceella, ante p. 85, read T av meter Hell a. 



PITYS. 



(This is a section of Tinea having the wings tufted and narrower than 

 in Tinea.) 



Head and face rough (as in Tinea), tongue very short. Maxillary- 

 palpi folded; labial palpi drooping, with the terminal joint more than half 

 as long as the second, which has a few bristles beneath ; eyes globose; 

 no ocelli. Antennae two-thirds as long as wings, filliform. Anterior 

 wings with raised tufts of scales, the tufts generally rather brightly 

 coloured ; lanceolate, narrower than in Tinea ; the costal vein attains the 

 margin before the middle ; discal cell closed by a straight distinct discal 

 vein, which gives off four branches, two of them to the costal and two to 

 the dorsal margin, one of the latter near the apex. The subcostal attains 

 the costal margin, giving off a long branch before the middle and a shorter 

 one near the end of the cell ; the median is three branched, the two last 

 arising together from the end of the cell ; submedian simple, fold 

 thickened at the end. 



Posterior wings linear, lanceolate ; costa excised from the middle to 

 the tip ? the costal vein attains the margin about the middle ; the sub- 

 ■costal is straight to the margin before the apex ; the cell is closed by a 

 •curved discal vein which gives off two branches, one to the apex, the 

 •other below it ; the median vein is three branched, the terminal one 

 having a common origin with the lower discal branch ; the two others 

 arise from the apical half of the cell. Ciliae long ; submedian and 

 internal obsolete. 



/. P. aurieristatella. N. sp. 



Pale gray, with intermixed brown scales. Head hoary ; a small 

 •scattered patch of raised golden scales within the costal margin near the 



