136 GEO. D. HULST. 



I have been perplexed in determining the position of this insect. 

 The antennae are very nearly intermediate between Dloryctria and 

 Nephopteryx ; I have finally concluded it favors D lory etria the more, 

 and so have located it. 



4. D. clarioralis Walker, C. B. M. pt. 27, p. 54, 1863 {Nephoptery.c).--Cine- 

 reous, head and fore part of the thorax blackish cinereous. Fore wings rather 

 narrow, somewhat rounded at the tips, slightly black speckled, here and there 

 ferruginous, with two pale cinereous irregularly undulating black bordered lines. 

 Space on the inner side of the first and discal space between the two lines more 

 or less clouded with black ; marginal points black ; costa straight, exterior border 

 slightly convex, hardly oblique. Hind wings brownish cinereous; fringe pale, 

 cinereous, interlined. Expands about 28 mm. 



United States. 



This is Walker's description ; the reference is Mr. Kagonot's. I 



do not know the insect. 



PINIPESTIS Grote. 



(Type Zhnmermanni Grt.) 

 Can. Ento. x, 19, 1878 ; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, iv, 699, 1878. 



In every resi:)ect like Diorydria, except that there is upon the fore 

 wing a raised scale ridge or tufting just within basal line. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1. Color nearly all reddish pygmseella. 



" mostly blackish 2. 



2. Cross lines pure white, very distant, basal straight aiiiafolla. 



" dull white, quite near, basal oblique Ziiniuerniaiiiii. 



" white, approximate, basal dentate ...albovittella n. sp. 



1. P. pygmreella Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 5, 1887 (Dioryctria). — Ex- 

 pands 17 mm. Fore wings purplish gray with irregular patches of dark red ; 

 lines pale gray, sinuous, with black margins, which broaden out into patches on 

 the costa; scale ridge dark ; an oblique lunule on disc. Hind wings fuscous. 



North Carolina, Florida. 



2. P. ailiatella Hulst, Ento. Am. iii, 131, 1887 (Nephopteryx) .—Expands 27 

 mm. Head light gray ; palpi fuscous ; color light gray. Thorax fuscous in front, 

 gray behind. Abdomen gray, with the segments banded with fuscous anteriorly, 

 and a black spot on dorsum. Fore wings brown with some reddish posteriorly, 

 three white cross lines; the first extra basal, diffuse, broad, edged outwardly with 

 black ; the second central, twice angulate inwardly, lined outwardly with blacky 

 which is followed centrally by a whitish blotch ; the third submarginal with large 

 sinus inwardly below costa, and a dentation before middle, then curved to inner 

 margin ; it is lined inwardly with black, which is preceded by a diffuse lengthened 

 whitish blotch, confluent with the rather large white discal spot. Margin a black 

 line, preceded by a gray baud. Hind wings fuscous, with black marginal line. 

 Beneath dark fuscous, with lighter fuscous outer line, less distinct on hind wings. 



Florida. 



