174 GEO. D. HULST. 



indistinctly dusted with wbite, with very shadowy dark fascije; the costa white 

 to the second line, and to the end of the cell, which is followed by a large 

 shadowy blackish round spot ; the veins marked as fuscous lines on the white 

 part. Hind wings fuscous. 



Cilifornia. 



4. Z. glaucatella Hulst, Euto. Am. iv. 117, 1888 (Jfonorrt).— Expands 22 

 mm. Palpi, head and thorax light gray, stained with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous 

 gray; fore wings white along costal half and base, stained with fuscous on pos- 

 terior half of middle and outer fields; basal line rounded, indistinct, edged out- 

 wardly with black, broad and heavy in middle, ob.solete at both ends; discal spot 

 black, prominent; outer line oblique, wavy, edged both sides with dark fuscous, 

 outwardly becoming black at costa; hind wings faded white, pellucid, yellowish 

 outwardly. 



Texas. Taken in May. 



.5. Z. flilatifasciella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 13, 1887.— Expands 17 mm. 

 Fore wings white, sparingly dusted with black on the costal half, washed and 

 dusted with reddish gray towards inner margin. Lines white, distinctly black 

 edged, the outer border of first line forming a broad baud, wide on inner margin, 

 narrow on costa. Second line sinuous, discal dots distinct. 



Arizona ; Sonora, Mex. 



EIJZOPHERA Zeller. 



(Type cineroseUa Zell.) 

 Stett. Ento. Zeit. xxviii, 377, 1867; Eagonot, Ento. Men. Mag. xxii, 30, 1885; 

 Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv, 239, 1879; vii, 156, 1872. 

 Stenoptycha, von Heinemann, Pyr. p. 190, 1865. 

 Melia, von Heinemann, Pyr. p. 209, 1865. 



Labial palpi ascending, slender, end member one-half middle ; 

 the end member is slightly indented at end with a' groove reaching 

 downward, not very distinct; maxillary palpi distinct, a little scale 

 tufted on end; tongue weak, not long; ocelli present, very small; 

 antennpe simple, or hardly bent above base; legs slender; fore legs 

 tarsi scarcely spinulated. Venation: fore wings 11 veins, 4 and 5 

 stemmed, 10 separate; hind wings 2 distant from angle, 3 and 4 very 

 short stemmed, rarely separate, 7 and 8 long stemmed. 



The tendency in the end member of palpi to a furcation is aber- 

 rant, and is the only point in the Piiycitidre which seems to suggest 

 an affinity to the Galleriidte. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1. Fore wings washed with deep reddish ; middle field not darker than the others. 



ostricolorella u. sp. 

 " tinged with reddish; middle field much darker 2. 



