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ARISTOTELIA QUINQUEPUNCTELLA, new species. 



Arlstotelw qnJiKpiepunctelhi BrscK, Dyar'H Lif^t Aiiier. Lt'p., No. 5591, 1903. 



Antennae lig-ht yellowish brown, annulated wdth w^hite. Labial 

 palpi, second joint fuscous with white apex; terminal joint yellow with 

 fuscous shading- toward the tip. Face yellowish white. Head and 

 thorax yellow. Forewings pale whitish yellow, sparsely sprinkled 

 with fuscous on disk, more strongly overlaid with fuscous along the 

 edges and gradually more so toward the tip, which is quite dark. On 

 the disk are four nearl}^ equidistant black prominent dots forming a 

 rhomb; one within the costal edge at ])asal third, one opposite a little 

 farther outward, wnthin dorsal margin on the fold, a third also on the 

 fold near base, and the fourth on the middle of the wing. A fifth 

 similar black spot is found just outside the end of the cell at the same 

 distance from point four as that between the other dots. Cilia yellow 

 with an indistinct dark line at base parallel with the edge of the 

 wing, Hindwings light silvery fuscous, ('ilia dark yellowish fuscous. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous. Legs yellowish, shaded with fuscous; anterior 

 coxffi in front dark fuscous. 



Ala7' expanse. — 11.6 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsjdvania (June). 



Type.—^o. 6353, U.S.N.M. 



The moth has a certain general i-esemblancc with TrlcJt<>ta2)fie 

 trimaculella (Chambers. I ha\'e tried to reconcile this species with 

 the description of the unrecognized Geleeh'm j^^it^^^tiferella Clemens, 

 which seems to be a similar s})ecics, but without success. 



HELICE Chambers. 

 Plate XXIX, tig. 12. 

 Ilellce Chambers, Can. Ent., V, 1873, p. 187. 



Labial palpi very long, smooth, curved; second joint somewhat 

 thickened toward apex with appressed scales; terminal joint longer 

 than second, slender, pointed. 



Forewings narrow, elongate ovate, pointed; 11 veins, 5 absent, 7 

 and 8 out of 0, 3 and 4 stalked. Hindwings narrower than forewings, 

 apex produced pointed, termen emarginate, anal angle rounded; 6 

 veins, 5 and 6 absent, 3 and 4 stalked, transverse vein obsolete. Fore- 

 wing with tufts of raised scales. 



Only the one species is known. 



HELICE PALLIDOCHRELLA Chambers. 



Helice 2)allidochreUa Chambers, Can. Ent., V, 1873, pp. 188, 230; VII, 1875, p. 105; 

 IX, 1877, p. 231; Bull. IT. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 150.— Busck, Journ. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc, X, 1902, p. 89; Dyar'w List Amer. Lep., No. 5592, 1903. 



