NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 157 



rador. They are not Myelois, but Salebria fusca, so that I think I 

 am justified in not catalogueing Myelois altensis as an American 

 species on Moeschler's authoi'ity. 



KL,ASWOPAL,PUS Blanch. 

 (Type Ugnosellus Zell.) 



Gay, Hist. Chili, Zool. vii, 104, 1852. 



Labial palpi erect, not recurved, rather heavily scaled, end member very short, 

 about one-eighth middle; maxillary palpi pencil tufted; tongue strong; ocelli 

 present: antennae bent above base, with a heavy tuft of scales in bend. Fore 

 wings narrow, subparallel. Genitalia of % ; uncus longer and slenderer than 

 usual, bifid at base, these parts arched, the S])iue long; harpse broad, with long 

 hairs along upper edge, forming somewhat of an anal tuft, a strong bent spine at 

 base ; lower plate conical ; within entrance a long slender bent spine ; last seg- 

 ment of abdomen beneath with two tufts of hair. Venation : fore wings 11 

 veins, 4 and 5 separate, 10 separate ; hind wings 2 more or less distant from angle, 

 4 and 5 stemmed, 6, 7 and 8 stemmed, cell rather short. 



The genitalia of some of the species ( petrellus, floridellus, melanel- 

 lus) differ very radically from those of lignoseJlus, the type of the 

 genus, and indeed from all the rest of the Phycitidse. The uncus 

 and lower plate are much after the ordinary pattern, but the harpse 

 are entirely different in construction in the % . The harpse are di- 

 vided to the base into two long, slender, almost linear lobes, which 

 stand at a strong angle from each other. The upper lobe is armed 

 with quite long hairs, wliile the lower is without hair.*, but has at the 

 end a development into three very short incurved teeth. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Color reddish brown petrellus. 



" blackish, with middle of wing yellowish or reddish; lines obsolete. 



lignosellus. 



" entirely blackish; lines obsolete tarfarellus. 



" lines distinct nielaiielliis n. sp. 



" gray; a reddish band beyond basal line floridellus u. sp. 



" " no reddish band decoralis. 



1. E. nielanellus n. sp. — Expands 23 — 25 mm. Labial palpi, head and 

 thorax dull black ; abdomen with an ocher cast and annulated with lighter color ; 

 fore wings even dull blackish, with a slight sprinkling of gray .scales a little 

 more pronounced along inner margin and on outer field; basal line very faint ; 

 outer line distinct, grayish, angulated below costa, then straight, waved-dentate 

 to inner margin ; discal spots jet-black, evident; marginal dots present at middle 

 of border; hind wings dark fuscous, veins and border black. 



Florida, April. 



