230 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tineina of the locality where they were collected. Twenty-nine of these 

 species belong to the genus Gclechin, and twenty-five others l)elong in the 

 •same family. Fifty-three of these species thus belong to the Gdechidce^ and 

 only twenty three to other genera. The GdechidcE are numerous every- 

 where, and a preponderance of species belonging to this family is to be 

 •expected in almost any collection, but I have not known any other 

 •collection in which it was so great as in this one. 



The collection contains seven species of Laverna, and another species 

 which I lia\ e made the type of a new genus very nearly allied to Laverna. 

 These seven species differ from each other somewhat as to the neuration, 

 and also as to the raised tufts on the wings, but perhaps not to any greater 

 degree than do well recognized species of Laverna, as e. g. Z. Staintoni 

 and Z. lajigidlaoi Europe. INIr. Staintoii (Nat. Hist. Ti?i.,vii) enumerates 

 only twenty species belonging to this genus, and three others are also known 

 from this countr}-. This collection then contains nearly one-third as many 

 species of this genus as were heretofore known altogether. Of the 

 species heretofore known, but one (if I rightly understand Mr. Stainton) 

 is fairly described as white, that being the prevailing or ground color, 

 though some others ha^e more or less white markings. But of these 

 seven, five may fairly be placed in the white section ; and the other two 

 are also strouLrlv marked with white. 



The collection contains five species which I ha^•e jjlaced in Bntalis, 

 though with great doubt as to two of them, which are totally unlike all 

 other species of the genus in color, though I have not been able to discover 

 any structural differences whatever. 



But it is, perhaps, more remarkable for what it does not than for what 

 it does contain. As before stated, such a collection is typical of the 

 Tineina of tlie locality where it was collected. ' Yet it contains no speci- 

 men of Lithocollctis, which, both in the collections of Dr. Clemens and 

 myself, is the genus next most numerous in species and individuals after 

 GelccJiia. Tinea, Coteophora, Graeitaria, Bucciilatri.x, Tischeria and 

 Neptieula are also genera usually numerous in species and individuals. 

 Yet this collection contains only one Tinea, t\\'o Coleophora, no Gracilai'ia 

 •(unless a single species of Coriseeuni be held to represent it), and three ? 

 .species of Bucculatrix, one of which is a somewhat aberrant form. 



All of the species are new exce])t ten. These are as follows : 

 Geleehia eereerisel/a Ch:im., Ypsolophus enpatorie/ta Ch^m., 



" cEqua^pulvella " PliiteUa erueiferarum Zell, ' 



