902 PROCEEDINGS OF THE XATWNAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



GELECHIA VERSICOLORELLA Chambers. 



Deprcttsitria verslcoloreUa Chambers, Can. Ent., lY, 1872, pp. 127, 129, 148; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., lY, 1872, p. 138.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 



No. 5284, 1891. 

 Gelechia versicolorella Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5509, 1891. — BrscK, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIV, 1902, p. 732; Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5832, 



1902. 



As shown ))y me, this species must be a Gelechiid, but definite deter- 

 mination of the genus can not be obtained from the description, 

 Tj'.pe is lost. 



Hah'diit. — Kentucky. 



GELECHIA WACOELLA Chambers. 



Gelecliki wacoella Chambers, Can. Ent., YI, 1874, \). 237; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., 

 lY, 1878, p. 148.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5511, 1891.— Busck, 

 Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5833, 1902. 



Type is lost and exact generic determination is impossible from the 

 description alone. 



ILtlntdt. — Texas. 



MENESTA Clemens. 

 Plate XXXI, fig. 30. 



Menesta Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., 1860, p. 213. 

 Hyale Chambers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., II, 1875, p. 242. 



The characters of this genus in accordance with Clemens's descrip- 

 tion andA'eritied by an undoubted specimen of the type of the genus are 

 as follows: Labial palpi smooth, slender, curved, ascending, reaching 

 vertex; second joint slightly thickened toward apex, terminal shorter 

 than second, smooth, slender, pointed. Forewing short, broad, 

 tortricid-formed apical edge nearly perpendicular on costal and dor- 

 sal edge; 10 veins, veins 4 and 8 absent, all separate, 7 to apex. Hind- 

 wings over I., 7 veins, 5 absent, 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 stalked. 



Lord Walsingham's suggestion* that this genus is hardly righth' 

 separated from Stenoqia Zeller is far from right. Neither is his con- 

 ception of the venation clear. In the article just referred to in his 

 tabulation of the supposed allied genera he writes that veins 7 and 8 

 ip forewing are separate, and he further says^ that Menexta cinerocer- 

 vina Walsingham, the venation of which he gives, diUers in venation 

 from the genus only in having veins 6 and 7 in hindwing connate 

 instead of stalked, thus inferring that Menestd^ like this species, has 

 11 veins in forewing and 8 in hindwing, while in reality it has only 10 

 and 7, respectivel3\ 



Chaml)ers suggested and Lord .AValsingham esta])lished the f<jn- 

 onymy Metiexta Clemens- Ilt/ale Cham])ers, about which there can not 

 be anv doubt. 



Insect Life, II, p. 154. '^Proc. Loud. Zool. Soc, 1895, p. 85. 



