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3. E. nigricaiitella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 14, 1887.— Expands 22—26 

 mm. Fore wings gray, very strongly and evenly dusted with black ; lines 

 hardly paler, black margined in median area, approximate, remote from base; 

 first line with a deep sinus in the middle outwardly, and an angle on dorsal vein : 

 second line angled in the middle, indented on the folds. A white spot on the 

 disc. Hind wings yellowish white, veins fuscous. 



Arizona; Sonora, Mex. 



4. E. aglieella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 14, 1887.— Hulst, Ento. Am. v. 

 155, 1889. — Expands 20 mm. Fore wings elongate, pale gray, washed with pale 

 reddish brown, except on the costa; lines approximate, whitish, black margined 

 in median area; first line very remote from base, perpendicular, but forming an 

 angle inwards on dorsal vein, second line obtusely angled in the middle. Median 

 area much dusted with black ; an elongate spot on disc. Hind wings whitish. 



Utah; Sonora, Mex. 



5. E. oehrifroiitella Zell., Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., Wien, 1875, p. 337 (Beit, 

 iii, 131), {Ephestia). 



ferruginella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 14, 1887. 

 Expands 10 — 12 mm. Head ocher yellow, thorax ocher fuscous, reddish. Ab- 

 domen ocher gray; fore wings dark brownish red, lines slightly sinuous, very 

 approximate, remote from base, pale ochreous, so broadly black margined in me- 

 dian area that this appears quite black ; a whitish spot on disc. Hind wings 

 fuscous, darker on margin. 



Massachusetts, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Ohio. 



Prof". Forbes took the insect at " sugar" at Urbana, Ohio, August 

 od and in September. This insect is also somewhat variable in ap- 

 pearance. A specimen identified by Mr. Ragonot as ferriiginella, 

 corresponds with Zeller's type of oehrijrontella in the Cambridge 

 Museum. 



6. E. fraiicoiiiella n. sp. — Expands 28 mm. Labial i)alpi dark fuscous; 

 front gray, darkened with fuscous in middle; thorax dark fuscous; abdomen 

 fuscous gray; fore wings dark fuscous, lightened with light gray on costal half 

 within outer line; a distinct central longitudinal black dash at base reaching to 

 first line ; first line white, indistinct, broken, difl'use ; outer line indistinct, white, 

 oblique, starting just within apex, with a sharp zigzag at middle; discal spots 

 distinct, coalesced, somewhat difl'use ; outer field fuscous. Veins lined with black, 

 this color showing sharply on the gray anterior portion ; a black line also cross- 

 ing the cell longitudinally in middle field. Hind wings fuscous gray, veins and 

 margin darker. 



Franconia, N. H. Taken by Mrs. A. T. Slosson, of New York. 

 Very like ZopJiocUa graciella in appearance. 



SEBTECA* n. gen. 

 (Type tmniduleUa Rag.) 



I am unable to give a full description of this genus, as I have 

 * An ancient tribe of Indians of Central New York. 



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