910 PRorEEDTxns of the national museum. 



I have examined ('ham])ers' type of Gelecluagoodelldla in Professor \ 

 Fernald's collection, which Lord Walsingham had before him in Iss: 

 It is undoubtedly the same as Clemens' species, the tj^pe of whicl 

 is lost. Chambers' type came from Massachusetts, Clemens"' typ 

 presumably from Pennsylvania; Zeller's specimens were from ^^'ash- 

 ington City. 



In the U. S. National ^Museum are specimens from all these localitie^ 

 and fi-om New York. 



TRICHOTAPHE PURPUREOFUSCA Walsingham. 



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GdechKf. {Tneliotaphe) parpiirrofnxru. Walsingham, TrauH. Am. Eiit. Soc. Pliila. 



X, 1S82, p. 184. 

 Gelechia purpureofusca Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5458, 1891. 

 Trichotaphe pjurpurr.ofusca Busck, Dyar's List Ainer. Lep., No 5660, 1902. 



This splendid insect 1 have easily identified among- the unnamed 

 material in the U. S. National Museum, I have later examined th^ 

 type in Professor Fernald's collection. 



It is our largest described species of this genus. The large orange 

 yellow palpi contrast strikingly with the dark purplish shining 

 forewings. ^ 



Food plant is not known. 



TRICHOTAPHE NONSTRIGELLA Chambers. 



Dasycera nonstrigella CnxMBERS, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 92, 138, 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5546. 

 Trichotaphe nonstrigella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5661, 1902. 



This species was described from a single female specimen, collcctec 

 in Kentucky, ^" resting on a leaf in the woods June 30.'' 



This unique type is found in the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 in Cambridge, in easily recognizable condition, agreeing minutely 

 with Chambers' description and bearing his label. 



It was somewhat of a surprise to find it to be a Gelechiid with wing- 

 form, venation, and palpi agreeing exactly with the present genus 



The densely ciliated antenna3 which Chambers describes surely ar( 

 remarkable. Ciliate and serrate antennae are found in all the sjieciei 

 of Trk-hotaphe^ but in this species thej^ are unusually developed. 



Still, there is no doubt that the species rightfully belongs to thi 

 present genus and quite near the foregoing species. 



In the U. S. National Museum is a single specimen from Kansi 

 (Crevecoeur), and I have examined one other specimen collected ne 

 Chambers' locality by Miss Annette Braun of Cincinnati, Ohio 



TRICHOTAPHE JUNCIDELLA Clemens. 



Trichotaphe juncidella Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 166 

 Stainton Ed. N. Am. Tin., 1872, p. 122.— Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep. 

 No. 5662, 1902. 



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