232 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxiii. 



TRICHOTAPHE Clemens. 



TRICHOTAPHE MELANTHERELLA, new species. 



(Plate I, fig. 7.) 



Antenna? purplish brown. Labial palpi long, smooth, curved. Sec- 

 ond joint thickened with appressed scales, third as long as second; 

 shining dark purplish brown, extreme tip yellow. Face, head, and 

 forewing unicolorous, deep purplish l)rown, nearly black, with a satin 

 luster. Before middle of wing, near dorsal margin, is a short black 

 streak, edged anteriorly and posteriorly with a few white scales. At 

 the end of the cell is a small round l)lack dot, slightly edged posteriorly 

 with white; a scarcely perceptil^le, outwardly angulated, narrow fascia 

 of a paler shade at apical fourth terminates in a yellowish costal 

 streak. Cilia dark purple. Hindwing dark purplish gray; cilia a 

 shade lighter. 



Venation.- — Forewing: 12 veins; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked. 

 Hindwing: 8 veins, 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 approximate, 6 and 7 con- 

 nate, discal vein nearly obsolete. 



A])domen purplish black, anal tuft yellow; legs silvery fuscous. 



Alar expanse, 12.5 to 13 mm. 



Described from 11 specimens from material collected by Dr. Dyar 

 at Palm Beach, Florida. Food plant Melanthera deltoidea. 



Type.—^o. 4939, U.S.N.M. 



It is near T. juncidella Clemens. 



Larva when full grown is about 12 mm. long, very prettily marked. 

 Front of head light brown, posteriori}- black. Next 5 joints rich 

 brown, thoracic shield lighter brown, edged with black. First and 

 second abdominal segments (the last two brown ones) with large trans- 

 verse dorsal velvety black spot. Remaining segments green; seg- 

 ments 7 and 8 (head counted as the first) with black semicircular line 

 across pointing backward and reaching down to abdominal legs; also 

 a short transverse black dorsal line behind the curved one; segment 9 

 all black above; rest of segments with the l^lack predominating in 

 streaks and dots. All legs black. It lives within a roomy fold made 

 of edge of leaf turned down or sometimes of an entire loaf of above 

 plant. 



Imago issued during early March. 



TRICHOTAPHE CONDALIAVORELLA, new species. 



Antenna f tinel}' serrate, shining bronze. Labial palpi second joint 

 smooth, flattened laterally, considerably thickened toward apex with 

 hairs above and below and cut off sharply at end — approaching the 

 palpi of Ypsolophus; third joint erect. Second joint deep l)la('k with 

 apex light j^ellow, third joint fuscous. Face, head, thorax and ba.sal 



