134 GEO. D. HULST. 



tibia shorter than tarsus. Phycita spissicella is tufted on thorax below on each 

 side. Venation : fore wings 11 veins, 4 and 5 separate, 10 separate ; hind wings 

 8 veins, 2 near angle, 3 separate, 4 and 5 stemmed, 6 short stemmed with 7; cell 

 short, about one-third of wing. 



1. P. flavicornella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 4, 1887 (Phycitopsis).—Ex- 

 pauds 26 mm. Fore wings elongate, nearly straight on costa, gray, marked with 

 reddish brown and suffused with blackish toward the costa ; lines approximate, 

 gray, indistinctly edged with brownish black, a triangular patch of brownish red 

 and black scales before fir.st line. Discal spots invisible. Antennte pale yellow, 

 head in front dark. Very much like Phycita spissicella Fab. in appearance. 



Texas. 



DIORYC'TRIA Zell. 

 (Type abietella S. V.) 



Isis, 1846, p. 732; Isis, 1848, p. 585; Von Heinemann, Pyr. p. 148, 1865; Eagonot. 

 En to. Mon. Mag. xxii, p. 52, 1885. 

 Labial palpi erect, exceeding front; maxillary palpi distinct, filiform; tongue 

 strong, ocelli present; antennpe of % pubescent, slightly bent above base with a 

 ridge of appressed tufts of scales in bend. Venation : fore wings 11 veins. 4 

 and 5 separate, 10 separate; hind wings 8 veins, 2 quite far from angle, 4 and 5 

 stemmed, 6 and 7 stemmed. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Fore wings bright orange-yellow »tiraiiticella. 



" fuscous gray abietella. 



" ferruginous clarioralis. 



" more or less red aetualis. 



1. n. aiiraiiticella Grote, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1883, p. 57 (Nephoiiteryx). 

 Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. viii, 57, 1883; Hulst, Ento. Am. v, 156, 1889; miniatella 

 Rag. Uiag. N. A. Phyc. p. 4, 1887 {Dioryctria). — Expands 30 mm. " Fore wings 

 bright orange-red. A white, somewhat diffuse longitudinal stripe from base to 

 end of median vein, followed by a slight oblique white clouding; subterminal 

 line white, contrasting with the red wing, running inwards a little on costal and 

 internal margins. The wing is more yellowish or orange at base, redder out- 

 wardly. Tegulse and sides of collar orange. Head above and collar centrally 

 white. Legs red outwardly; palpi red, white at base. Thorax beneatli, white. 

 Hind wings pale translucent fuscous, with a fine terminal line and white fringes 

 interlined at base. Beneath yellowish fuscous, with a red mark on the prima- 

 ries at costal inception of transverse line. This brilliant species wants the usual 

 transverse line on wings above." 



Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado. 



I have received a specimen of his miniate/la from Mr. Ragonot, 

 and it is the same as Mr. Grote's species. The insect is one of the 

 most beautiful of all our Phycitidce, and is as well very strongly 

 marked. 



