Descriptions of some yeir Tineina. 187 



the costal is short aud indistinct; subcostal without branches goes 

 straight to the margin in the apical part of the wing. Median (or 

 submedian?) distinct, attaining the hind margin about midway its 

 length; an indistinct fold (the median vein?) along the middle of the 

 wing. 



Head, smooth; vertex, arched; face, full, but less so than in the ge- 

 nus Aeaea. Antennfe, slender, subpectinate toward the apex, more 

 than half as long as the wings; tongue, long, naked; no maxillary 

 palpi; labial palpi, drooping (probably recurved in the living insect); 

 divergents, slender, joints of about equal size; ocelli, none; eyes, 

 moderate. 



A. BIPDNCTELLA, n. Sp. 



Yellowish oclircous, with a small blackish spot on the fold before the 

 middle; another beliiud the middle beneath the fold, with one nearly 

 opposite to it on the disc, and another at the end of the cell. Al. ex., 

 8-8th inch. Texas. 



Elachista bickisiatella, u. sp. 



Next to the' Gelechidce, the Elachistidoe appear to be most numer- 

 ous, both in species aud individuals among the Texan Tineina, judg- 

 ing from the collections that I have received from that region. Many 

 of the species, however, can not be placed in ElachisfAi.^ though closely 

 allied to it (such as Eripliia., Aeaea, etc.), whilst some that I have re- 

 ferred to, Elachista, will, perhaps, be removed from it. Dr. Clemens 

 describes as E^ orichalcella, a species which Mr. Stainton "imagines 

 to be quite distinct from *' Elachista. Unfortunately it was de- 

 scribed very brie% from a single specimen which does not seem to be 

 now extant. From Dr. Clemens' description, I supposed it might pos- 

 sibly' be Eriphia concolorella, Cham., but Dr. Clemens' account of the 

 neuration does not agree with that of^ Eriphia, and orichalcella is de- 

 scribed as of a metallic cupreous color, and Eriphia concolorella is of a 

 dark bronzy brown. Some of the species which approach Elachista 

 closely, have raised tufts on their wings, and this (bicristatella) is one 

 of them. 



Palpi, simple, slender, drooping; antenuje, slender, more than half 

 as long as the forewings. Insect, dark gra3'ish brown. About the 

 middle of the costal margin of the forewings is a small white spot, 

 which almost touches an opposite larger dorsal white spot, which is 

 margined behind b}- a tuft of raised scales; aud just before the cilia is 



