NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 149 



3. 1?I. uiiicolorella Hulst, Ento. Am. iii, 136, 1S87 (Dioryctrta). — Expands 

 20 mm. Head and tliorax even mouse gray. Abdomen with segments ringed, 

 fuscous in front, light ocher fuscous behipd. Fore wings even light mouse gray. 

 Basal line whitish, obsolete, except at inner margin. Costa with a patch darker 

 than the ground color. Outer line very near margin very faint, bent outwardly. 

 Hind wings light fuscous mouse gray, subpellucid with black marginal line. 

 Beneath light fuscous, the hind wings lighter. 



Canada. 



4. jfl. caiiescentella Hulst, n. sp. — Expands 18 mm. Labial palpi white- 

 stained with fuscous, the front and thorax being of the same color ; abdomen 

 fuscous yellow. Fore wings, costa arched, apex sharp, outer angle rounded ; 

 color white, washed with light fuscous and sprinkled not very heavily with 

 black scales, altogether giving a light gray appearance ; lines indistinct, known 

 only by the shading ; the basal oblique, waved, shaded outwardly by a broadish 

 dark line, which at middle runs outward into a blackish dash extending to 

 middle of wing; costa at base, and median space in front of dash, relieved of 

 blackish scale sprinkling, and consequently nearly pure white; outer line very 

 faint, very'close to margin, even, parallel to margin. Hind wings white, washed 

 slightly with yellowish fuscous. 



Central Texas. 



SAL.EBR1A Zell. 

 {Type palumbeUa S. V.) 



Isis 1846, p. 733; 1848, p. 779; Von Heiuemann, Pyr. p. 155, 1865; Grote, Bull. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, iv, p. 695, 1878; N. A. Ento. i, 11, 1879; Ragonot, Ento. 

 Mou. Mag. xxii, 19, 1885. 



Labial palpi erect, somewhat recurved ; maxillary palpi long, bipencil-tufted ; 

 tongue long and strong; ocelli present; autennse of % bent above base with 

 tuft of scales in bend ; thorax with tuft of long hairs on each side in front of 

 last segment. Venation : fore wings 11 veins. 4 and 5 separate, 10 separate ; 

 hind wings 8 veins. 2 at angle, 3, 4 and 5 stemmed; 6, 7 and 8 separate; cell 

 rather short. Genitalia of %: uncus slenderly built, spine not long, bifid below ; 

 harpe rather narrow, haired; lower plate, triangular, conical, long haired on 

 outer edge with a strong spine on either side at base ; anal opening armed with 

 seven long strong spines arranged somewhat in a circle about it; last segment 

 of abdomen beneath with six tufts of hairs. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1. Fore wings, except cross lines all reddish ochreous (lelassalis. 



all deep purple red (•arneella. 



" not all of one color 2. 



2. Basal field reddish 3. 



" not reddish 4. 



3. Red distinct, outer cross line distinct tariiiitalis. 



Red faint, outer line indistinct COiitatella. 



" distinct, very dentate cellidella n. sp. 



4. Hind wings light fuscous, nearly white 5. 



dark fuscous 7. 



