170 GEO. D. HULST. 



1. K. ziiickenella Treit., Schm. Eur. ix, pt. 1, p. 201, 1832 (Phycis); Zell., 

 Isis 1846, p. 755, 1848, p. 882 iEfieUa) ; Hor. Soc. Ento. Eoss. svi, 177; von Heine- 

 maiin, Pyr. p. 154, 1865; Herrich-Schaeffer, Sys. Bear, iv, p. 72, 1849; Milliere, 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, viii, 231 ; Frei., Lep. Sch. p. 274; Christoph. Horse Ento. 

 Soc. Eoss. xii, 221, 1876. 



etiella Tr. x, pt. 3, p. 174, 1835. 



(hjmniisaUs Wlk., C. B. M. pt. 19. p. 1017, 1859. 



cnlonneUus Costa Fann. Nap. N. 15, pi. viii, fig. 2 (Chilo). 



majorellus Costa Faun. Nap. N. 9, pi. viii, fig. 1 {Chilo}. 

 Labial palpi dark fuscous ; thorax brownish fuscous ; abdomen fuscous ; fore 

 wings fuscous gray, powdered over with blackish, a white stripe reaching from 

 base to apex, edged on the outer half in front with mouse brown ; a basal cross 

 line straight, red, edged inwardly with blackish and outwardly with ochreous 

 reddish ; outer line indicated by black lengthened points on veins. Hind wings 

 fuscous, veins and margin darker. 



Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas. Also West 

 Indies; South America ; Europe; West Africa ; Madagascar; Cen- 

 tral Asia. 



Milliere (Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon viii, 231) says that this insect in 

 the larval stage lives on Coluta arborescens. 



Zeller refers Mella dymnnsalis Walk., as a synonym of this species. 



2. E. shisticolor Zell., Hor. Ento. Soc. Eoss. xvi, p. 178. 

 viUosella Hulst, Ento. Am. iii, 133, 1887. 



Expands 24 — 27 mm. Labial palpi russet-gray above, gray below. Maxillary 

 palpi yellowish, brown on end. Head, collar and fore thorax orange fuscous. 

 Thorax behind fuscous gray. Abdomen fuscous; fore wings mouse color, con- 

 sisting of bluish gray, overlaid partly with fuscous. A broad white stripe ex- 

 tending from base along cosia to apex. Extreme edge of costa of ground color 

 broadening outwardly just beyond middle and fading away towards apex. A 

 dull yellowish basal stripe reaching from white costal stripe to inner margin, 

 edged inwardly with a row of maroon-brown scales, the scales being longer than 

 usual. Hind wings fuscous, deepening outwardly, with dark marginal line. 

 Beneath even glistening, very light fuscous. 



Colorado, California. 



Mr. Ragonot has determined viUosella to be shisticolor Zeller, de- 

 scribed by him in a Russian periodical. It is very close to zincke- 

 nella. Zeller' s types came from California, and were taken on 

 October 8th. 



3. E. rubribasella n. sp. — Expands 22 mm. Close to zinckenella, of which 

 it may be a variety. Head and thorax reddish brown ; abdomen reddish ochre- 

 ous basally, ochreous anally ; wings shorter, apex more sharply angled and anal 

 angle less rounded than in zinckenella. Fore wings with edge of costa i-eddish, 

 followed by a broad cream-white stripe reaching to and including apex, the rest 

 of the wing seal gray, slightly lighter in middle field and darker along costal 

 stripe ; cross line broad ochreous. raised scales reddish with metallic golden outer 



