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Expands 17 — 20 mm. Fore wings gray, dusted with black, especially iu the 

 median area, sometimes washed with reddish ; lines pale, black margined in 

 median area, rather approximate, both parallel with hind margin ; first line pro- 

 duced on dorsal vein into a strong angle; second line sinuous, produced into a 

 distinct angle on median vein. Discal dots forming a streak. Hind wings 

 whitish. Larva, according to Packard, lives in the uests of buml)le-hees and 

 feeds on the cells. 



Canada, New York, North Carolina, Florida, Texas. 



I have referred dentosella Rag. as a synonym of edmandsil Pack, 

 on the authority of a specimen received from Mr. Ragonot labeled 

 Vitula. dentosella Rag., which is the same as Packard's type of ed- 

 mandsu in the Cambridge Museum. 



2. V. werratiiiiieella Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 15, 1887.— Expands 25 

 mm. Fore wings unicolorous blackish gray, lines black, very distinct and den- 

 tate. The first is slightly curved outwards ; the second approximate to the hind 

 margin is acutely angled inwardly on the discal fold and outwardly below. A 

 black lunule on disc ; a few black scales at the base. Hind wings pale brownish 

 gray. 



No locality given by Mr. Ragonot. I have it from S. California. 



3. V. basimaculella Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 15, 1887. -Expands 16 

 mm. Fore wings white, speckled with black; below median vein suffused with 

 brownish gray; first line whitish, indistinct, perpendicular, distinguishable by 

 its very broad iilack external border, which is less distinct on inner margin ; 

 second line white, distinctly black margined, oblique, indented on the folds. 

 Discal spots one above the other, distinct. A black spot on the costal vein at 

 base. Hind wings fuscous. 



No locality is given by Mr. Ragonot. 



€ANA11SIA«- n. gen. 



(Type ulmiarrosorella Clem.) 



Labial palpi erect, recurved, exceeding head, end member one-half 

 middle; maxillary palpi distinct, scaled, but not pencil tufted in % ; 

 tongue strong, but rather short, about four times head; ocelli pre.seut, 

 quite distinct; antennae of S bent above base, a large tuft of scales 

 in the bend, otherwise crenulate pubescent. Legs light, not long, 

 all tarsi spinulated. Genitalia of S : uncus short, bifid, broad at 

 base; liarpe broad; lower plate spatulate conical, with inturned hairs; 

 last segment of abdomen below with chitinous plate and two tufts of 

 hairs; between these two chitinized processes with lateral projection 

 half way out, and in front of all these filiform, pennant-like pro- 

 cesses four in number; the abdomen of the 9 on penultimate and 



A tribe of Indians formerly on Long Island, N. Y. 



