790 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The synonomy with the following species, which Cham])ers himself 

 suo-gested, will not stand as explained under that species. 



Food jplant. — Chambers surmised ^ that this species fed in some way 

 on Gleditschla trlcanthos (honey locust), but nothing definitely is 

 known of the early stages. 



Hah! tat. — Kentuck}^ 



AGNIPPE FUSCOPULVELLA Chambers. 



Agnippe fdscopulvella Chambers, Can Ent., IV, 1872, ]i. 195. — Busck, Dyar's List 



Amer. Lep., No. 5568, 1903. 

 Agnippe, blscolarellu Chambeks, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, j). 12S. 

 Agnippe hiscolorella var. fumopulwUd Riley, Sniitli'a List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 



5296a, 1891. 



Though at first recognizing this as a distinct species, Chaml)ers was 

 led later l)y the superficial similarity to make it a synonym of the 

 foregoing spe^-ies. 



In the U. S. National Museum, however, is, besides the type of his- 

 colorella, another specimen received from Chambers at the same time 

 as this. It is in Chambers's mounting and furnished with an iden- 

 tical small label and the number 7, as is found on the pin of hhcolorella. 

 But it is a difierent, though very similar insect, which agrees well 

 with Chambers's description oi fuscojndveUa, and which I feel confi- 

 dent is the original type of that species. This view was substantiated 

 during a study of Chambers's types in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology in Cambridge, where types of both species, correctly named 

 by Chambers himself, were found, 



A superficial examination might bring the conclusion, as it did to 

 Chambers, ihiit yuscojndmUa h a worn specimen, or a variet}^ of hisco- 

 lorella, but when closely examined it is easily seen that the dirty 

 whitish ground color in ^fuscopulvella, which gives the appearance of 

 a worn wing, reallv is intact and suits Chambers's description oi fusco- 

 pulvella well. 



And a study of the venation will show that though veiy similar to 

 that of hiscolorella it differs in lacking vein 5 on the forewings. 



All other points in venation, form of wing, and palpi are identical 

 with those of the type of the genus, the definition of which I have 

 therefore only widened in that one respect. 



Hahitat. — Kentucky. 



NEALTDA Dietz. 

 Plate XXVIII, fig. 8. 



Nealyda Dietz, Ent. News, XI, 1900, p. 850; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, 

 p. 228. 



Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, smooth, second joint 



Can Ent., IX, p. 231. 



