200 GEO. D. HULST. 



(luring the summer in the imago state, and is probably several 

 brooded ; indeed, in the warmth of a mill or house, its development 

 may be continuous during the year. 



4. E. iiigrella'n. sp. — Expands 16 mm. Palpi, head, an ten use and thorax 

 blackish fuscous, the thorax with a slight violet shade ; abdomen more grayish 

 fuscous. Fore wings gray, overlaid more or less with blackish ; first line light 

 gray, broad, straight; outer line close to margin, distinct, sharply and somewhat 

 irregularly dentate; basal field much powdered and spotted with blackish ; mid- 

 dle field nearly solid black, except au indefinite band of less deep color including 

 the distinct discal spots; outer field heavily marked, not blackish; below, the 

 costal fold encloses a tuft of yellowish hairs. Hind wings dark to pellucid fus- 

 cous, more heavily marked on veins and margin ; there is but one tuft of hairs 

 above so far as I can determine. 



Central Texas ; July and August. 



5. E. elutella Hiib., Samm. pi. 24, 163 (Tinea); Zinck., Germ. Mag. iii, 17.5, 

 1818 (Phyeh); Treit., ix, 1, 194, 1832; Wood, fig. 1454, 1839; West, and Hum. 

 Moths, p. 229. pi. 115, fig. 7; Dup., x. 279, 8; Steph., 111. Brit. Ins. iv, p. 304, 1834 

 (Phycita); Zeller. Isis 1848, p. 592; Herrich-Schaeffer, Sys. Bear, iv, p. 110; von 

 Heiueraann, Pyr. p. 201 ; Morris, Brit. Moths, iii, pi. 79, fig. 18. 1872; Meyrick, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii, 215, 1878; Trans. Euto. Soc. London, 1887, p. 261 ; 

 Zeller, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., Wien, 1876, p. 338 (Beit, iii, 132) ; Verb. Zool.-Bot. 

 Ges., Wien, 1874 (Lep. West. Am. p. 8); Moeschler, Stet. Ento. Zeit. 1880, 393; 

 Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges., Wien, 1884, p. 310 ; Fisch., v, Roesl. in Sepp. 2d. S. i, p. 138, 

 pi. 31, figs. 1-8; Wall., Pyr. p. 1053; Bonw.st. iii, p. 204, N. 53; Snellen, Vlin. 

 Xeth. i, p. 162 ; De Geer, Ins. i, 16, p. 84 ; Reum., iii, 1, p. 352, pi. 19, figs. 19-21 ; 

 Lienig, Isis 1846, p. 266; Frei, Lep. Sch. p. 279, 1880; Biittner, Stet. Ento. Zeit. 

 1880, p. 393 ; Christoph, Horte Ento. Soc. Ross, xii, 224, 1876. 



ahlutalis Hiib. 



elutea Haw.. Lep. Brit. 496, 1828. 



rufa Haw., Lep. Brit. 497, 1828; Wood. Index 1454, 1839. 



angusta Haw., Lep. Brit. 497, 1828. 

 Labial palpi blackish gray; thorax fuscous gray; abdomen more ochreous: 

 fore wings gray, powdered with blackish, and washed with fuscous along poste- 

 rior half; first line black, often indistinct, dentate; outer line not far from mar- 

 gin, more distinct, with a tooth inwardly below costa, then finely waved, dentate ; 

 discal spots present. Hind wings with two tufts above, light fuscous, deeper on 

 veins and margin. 



Found in all parts of the world, living in old fences and decay- 

 ing wood and rubbish, according to European authorities. 



PEODIA Guen. 

 (Type interpunctella Hiib.) 

 Ann. Soc. Ento. France, 1845, p. 322 (Index Meth. p. 80) ; von Heinemann, Pyr. 

 p. 202, I860; Ragonot, Ento. Mon. Mag. xxii, 25, 1885. 



Labial palpi ascending, rather heavy, second member triangular, 

 heavy, end member lighter, pointed; maxillary palpi small; tongue 



