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NORTH AMERICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY HRACKENRIDlit: CLEMJ:NS, M. D. 



BRENTHIA Clemens. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila., May 1860, p. 172. 



Brenthia Virginiella n. s. — Fore wings dark brown, tinged with oolireous 

 between tlie markings toward the tip, with an oblique, somewhat violet-hued 

 silvery line, from the oosta at the apical third, directed toward tlie anal angle: 

 a line of the same hue from the tip of the wing, parallel to the hinder margin, 

 and a white costal streak equidistant from the two silvery lines. C)n the inner 

 margin, a little interior to the anal angle, is a silvery, somewhat violet-hued 

 spot. Cilia whitish beneath the tip of the wing, with a dark intercilial line. 

 Hind wings dark brownish, with a silvery spot near the hinder margin above 

 the anal angle. 



A single specimen. Virginia. 0)11. Ent. Soc. Phila. * 



GRACILARIA Zeller. ^ 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., March 1863, p. 9. 



Gracilaria Blandella n. s. — Fore wings yellow, dark purple along the dorsal 

 margin from near the base to the tip of the wing. Near the tip is a projection 

 from the dorsal stripe extended to the costa, and a little interior to the middle 

 of the wing, the dorsal stripe is excavated, and presents a blunt projection to- 

 ward the costa. Near the base is a broad, dark purple band from the costa, 

 which forms the interior limit of the excavation. The costa, from the band to 

 the base of the wing, and the base of the inner margin, is dark jiurplish. Ex- 

 treme base of the wing, yellow. Cilia purplish, with an intercilial paler line. 

 Hind wings and cilia, pale fuscous. 



Face yellowish ; head above tinted with purplish. Antennee yellowish, an- 

 nulated with purplish. Labial palpi yellowish, with a brownish spot on the 

 end of the middle joint and the tip of the terminal joint brownish. 



A single specimen. Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila. 



TINEA. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Sept. 1859, p. 257. 

 Tinea tapetzella Lin. — Fore wings blackish at the base, extended further 

 along the costa than the inner margin ; the remainder of the wing is yellowish- 

 white. The whitish jrortion of the wing is marked with numerous, interrupted 

 transverse blackish stria; and at the base of the nervules, in the middle of the 

 wing, is a blackish spot and two or three small ones at the apex of the wing. 

 Cilia whitisli, at extreme apex fuscous. Hind wings dark grey, with paler cilia. 



