198 GEO. D. HULST. 



Labial palpi erect, recurved, rather short, filiform: maxillary 

 j)alpi distinct, somewhat scale tufted on end ; tongue rather strong ; 

 ocelli present; antennae simple, pubescent; fore wings rather long, 

 narrow, with costal fold beneath. Hind wings tufted above near 

 base. Genitalia of % : uncus bifid at end, spine rather spreading, 

 a spine at base on each side ; harpe simple, long haired ; lower plate 

 short and broad, conical truncate, with turned in bristles. Venation: 

 9 veins, 5 and 8 wanting, 3 and 4 separate, 10 separate ; hind wings 

 H veins, 5 and 8 wanting, 2 quite far from angle, 3 and 4 stemmed. 



Synopsis of Species. 



1. Fore wings cream-white rileyella. 



otherwise 2. 



2. Basal line followed hy a broad black band fliscofasciella. 



no broad black band 3 



3. Color blackish iiigrella u. sp. 



" gray. 



4. Costal fold without tnft beneath kuehiiiella. 



" with tuft elutella. 



1. E. rileyella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 17, 1887.— Expands 20—22 min. 

 Fore wings cream-white, very sparingly sprinkled with black scales. Lines 

 black, interrupted, distinct; first line per])endicular, formed of two black spots 

 on donsal and median veins; second line oblique, formed of numerous black dots 

 on the veins. Hind margin spotted with black, the lower discal dot distinct. 

 Hind wings bluish white. 



Utah, Mexico. Larva lives in fruit of Yucca baccafa. 



2. E. fuscofasciella'Eag., Diag. N. A. Phyc. p. 17, 1887.— Expands 26 mm. 

 Fore wings narrow at base, dilated and rounded on costa, posteriorly gray duster! 

 with black, especially on the veins, basal area paler; first line indistinct, slightly 

 elbowed at the middle, shaded externally by a broad blackish band ; second line 

 sinuous, indented on discal fold, pale gray, edged with blackish internally. An 

 irregular black lunulc on disc. Hind wings pale brownish yellow, the veins 

 fuscous. 



Missouri, Texas. 



3. E. kuehiiiella" Zell., Stett. Ento. Zeit. 1879, p. 476; Snellen, Tids. Ento. 

 xxviii, 237, 1885, pi. viii ; Thompson, Entomolosiist, xx, 66, 1887; Barrett, Ento. 

 Mon. Mag. xxiii. 255, 1887; Riley, Insect Life, i, 315, 1888.- Expands 24-26 mm. 

 Labial palpi blackish gray ; head and thorax somewhat lighter; abdomen the 

 same color, with an ocher shade; fore wings even gray, overlaid rather unevenly 

 with blackish .scales generally, a little more pronounced on the veins, giving a 

 striated appearance; lines not very distinct, the basal faint, dentate, edged out- 

 wardly and faintly with black ; the outer gary, with a large inward angle below 

 costa, then finely dentate; marginal spots black. Hind wings light pellucid 

 fuscous. 



