140 GEO. D. flULST. 



GI.YPTOCERA Rag. 

 (Type consohrinella Zell.) 



Cat. N. A. Phyc. Euto. Am. v, 114, 1889. 



Labial palpi short, erect, recurved, middle member heavily scaled, four times 

 end member; maxillary palpi distinct, small ; tongue middling strong ; antenna 

 pubescent, bent above base, toothed in bend, with scales appressed, tufted, but 

 much \\k& Dioryctria ; ocelli distinct. Venation: fore wings 11 veins, 4 and 5 

 short stemmed, or from a point, 10 separate. Hind wings 8 veins, 2 near angle, 



3 stemmed or separate, 4 and 5 stemmed, 8 stemmed with 7. Genitalia not 

 studied. 



This description is from the type in the Cambridge Museum. I "" 

 am not aware that Mr. Ragonot has described the genus. 



1. G. consobrinella Zell., Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 1872, p. 548 (Beit. 

 I, 102) (Nephopteryx).—^7i\>^\iAs 22—30 mm. Labial palpi dark fuscous, front 

 light gray; antennse dark fuscous; thorax fuscous; abdomen dark fuscous, an- 

 nulated with ocher yellow; fore wings gray, washed over with fuscous, except 

 at base and on outer field ; base reddish, not so decided costally, often obsolete 

 altogether, and never reaching basal line; basal line oblique, sinuate, with a 

 broad blackish inner band ; middle field darker on basal half with a little wash- 

 ing of reddish; discal spots quite distinct; a short black dash just beyond 

 lower spot, and another black dash at middle near inner margin ; outer line gray, 

 finely sinuate, rounded at middle, angulate above and below, edged on both sides 

 finely with black, as is also the basal line outwardly ; marginal line black ; the 

 basal line is distant frombase and the two lines approximate on inner margin. 

 Hind wings yellow light fuscous. 



Texas, Florida. 



ORTHOL,EI»IS Rag. 

 {TyY)e jugosella Rag.) 



Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. (i, 1887. 



Labial palpi thick, broad, brush-like in front, oblique ; maxillary palpi fan- 

 like; head with a strong tuft of scales in frout; antenna? hardly pubescent, 

 curved and thickened towards base, with a furrow filled with black scales in the 

 curve. Fore wings with a basal scale ridge. Venation : fore wings 11 veins, 



4 and 5 nearly parallel. Hind wings 8 veins, 4 and 5 stemmed, 3 appearing 

 stemmed with them, 8 separate. 



1. O. jugosella Rag., Diag, N. A. Phyc. p. 6, 1887— Expands 20 mm. 

 Fore wings narrow at base, costa arched, gray, suflfused posteriorly from middle 

 of median area and in basal area with blackish tinted with purplish ; cross lines 

 cray, the first oblique, edged externally with black on the costa and preceded on 

 the inner margin by a straight thick ridge of black scales; second line sinuous: 

 discal spots distinct. 

 No locality given. 



