Descriptions of some New Tineina. 191} 



NEPTICULA. 



N. UNiFASCiELLA, Cham. 



Described from specimens bred iu Kentuck}'. I have also received 

 it from Texas. 



N. GRANDISELLA, n. Sp. 



Chiefly remarkable for its large size for this genus, having an al. e.r., 

 of over 3-8th inch. Face, sordid, straw or sandy 3'ellow, with palpi a 

 little paler; eye-caps, white; antennjie, reddish brown. Bod}-, wings 

 and legs, brown. Texas. 



N. MACULOSELLA, U. Sp. 



Resembles N. nigrivuticella^Cham., and may prove to be the same, or 

 a variety, but t think it is distinct. Antennae, pale yellowish, stained 

 above with fuscus; eye-caps and palpi, sordid white; vertex, blackish 

 brown; tufl, small; forewings. pale ocherous or yellowish white, dusted 

 with small fuscus spots, with a dark brown longitudinal streak on the 

 costal margin at the base, and near the base a dorsal dark brown spot 

 which reaches the fold, and in the apical part of the wing a very large 

 brown spot or fascia which is widest on the costal margin; cilia, paler 

 than the wings; hindwings, pale lead color; abdomen, pale ochreous 

 beneath, brown above. Al. ex., 1-4 inch. Texas. 



N. QUERCiCASTANELLA, Cham., and N. castane^foliella, Cham. 



I have bred these species from tlie white oak, as well as the chestnut 

 oak and chestnut. 



TINEA. 



T. tapetzella, Linn. var. occidentella, var. nov. 



T. tapetzella is known in this country only by two specimens, 

 one received b}' Dr. Clemens from Virginia, and one received by me from 

 Quebec. The minute difTerences of these specimens and European 

 ones, indicated b}^ the notes of Dr. Clemens and myself, are probably 

 not greater than may be observed among European specimens. I have 

 to thank Mr. James Behrens, of San Francisco, for these specimens, 

 sent to me from that place, which I think belong to a A'ariety of tapet- 

 zella, but which ma}^ prove to be a distinct species. In these three 



