NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEKA. 195 



duste<] with black, with a dark red tinge; median area darker; lines indistinct, 

 grayish, the first nearly perpendicular, the second oblique, sinuous. Discal spots 

 indistinct. Hind wings pale fuscous. 



North Carolina. 



3. E. erythrella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 16, 1887.— Expands 16 mm. 

 Head dark reddish fuscous ; antennse dark fuscous ; thorax reddish : fore wings 

 rather dilated posteriorly, dark vinous red, dusted with black on costa and veins, 

 and with gray in basal area; lines very indistinct, gray, oblique; the first 

 rounded externally, the second slightly sinuous. Discal dots invisible. Hind 

 wings fuscous. 



California. 



EIJRVTHMIA Rag. 

 (Type hospitella Zell.) 

 Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 16, 1887. 



Labial palpi erect, equaling head, end member not as long as 

 middle; maxillary palpi filiform ; tongue long, strong; antennse sim- 

 ple, members above base slightly toothed, ocelli very minute; front 

 with scale tuft. Fore wings rather narrow, angles rounded, costa 

 arched, a small tuft of scales beneath. Hind wings narrow, anal 

 angle rounded, outer and anal margin waved, fringes very long. 

 Legs slender, long; tarsi spinulated, heavily so on hind legs; fore 

 tibia = upper tarsus, hind tibia twice upper tarsus. Genitalia of % : 

 uncus bifid at end with two short spines, trunk rather long, bifid at 

 base; from the base reaches out a long straight spine, a little curved 

 in and pointed at end; harpe plain, haired; lower plate broad, trun- 

 cate, conical, somewhat shape of a broad-necked bottle, heavily 

 armed with bristles ; within, reaching back to beginning of last 

 segment, a chitinous cylindro-conical tube armed within with over- 

 lying larainse or plates, joined in with tube on one side, oak-leaf 

 in shape, with three to seven teeth or spines on end and outer side. 

 These overlying each other begin below at base of tube and extend 

 out in a spiral, making two complete circles in their coui'se. They 

 are about twenty-six to twenty-eight in number. These laminae 

 themselves seem to be composed of interfitting plates one to each 

 tooth, somewhat (though more elongate) as the scales of a lily 

 bulb fit in each other. Venation : fore wings 9 veins, 2 at angle, 3 

 and 4 stemmed one-half length, 5 wanting, 8 wanting; hind wings 

 2 at angle, 3 and 4 stemmed three-fifths length, 6 separate, 8 very 

 short. 



