814 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Gelechia vagatioeUa CnxyiBERU, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 147. — Eiley, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5505, 1891. 

 Recuivaria dor.vriltdln BfscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5603, 1903. 



T3^pe of (lor^iviifrUd was found in the uiuseuui in Cambridge in 

 good condition in May, 19()(X and agrees with a .specimen determined 

 by Lord Walsingham in the V . S. National Museum. 



1 assume the synonymy of Chambers' vagatloelJa^ which seems rea- 

 sonably certain from the generic and specific descriptions of that 

 species, all authentic material of which is lost. 



Habitat. — Texas, Kentucky, Eastern United States, West Indies. 



RECURVARIA CRISTATELLA Chambers. 



Gelediid cristdtelld Chambers, Cimi. Quart. Journ. 8c., II, 1875, p. 241; Ball. 



U. S. Geol. Surv.jIV, 1878, p. 142.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 



5346, 1891. 

 Gelechia {Evngoi-a) cridateUn Walsixcham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 1882, 



pp. 179, 182. 

 Recurvarki cristatella Bcsck, Dyar's List. Amer. Lep., No. 5604, 1903. 



Type No. -±49 in the U, S. National Museum, received from Cham- 

 bers, is identical with four types examined by the writer in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, 



The former is a male and has the yellow hair pencil on hindwing; so 

 have the males in Cambridge, No other specimens are known to me. 



Ilahitat. — Kentucky. 



RECURVARIA NIGRA, new species. 

 Renirviirid nigra. Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5605, 1903. 



Antennae black, with indistinct narrow silvery annulations. Labial 

 palpi with second joint black except at apex, which is silvery white; 

 terminal joint white, with two broad black annulations; extreme tip 

 white. 



Face, head, and thorax ])lack, with purplish reflections. Ground 

 color of forewings silvery white, but so thickly overlaid with l)lack * 

 and dark fuscous scales as to appear black to the naked eye. Under 

 a lens is indistinctly seen six deep black spots of raised scales in two, 

 rows, one above, the other below fold. At apical fourth is a very 

 narrow, irregular. V-shaped, silvery white fascia, with the angle pointed 

 toward the tip of the wing, and farther out toward apex is a very indis- 

 tinct thin row of white scales, parallel with the costal edge and meet- 

 ing a similar line parallel to the dorsal edge just before apex. Cilia 

 dark gray, Hindwings nearh' black, with metallic luster. Legs black, 1 

 with white annulations; tuft on posterior tibiae silvery white. J 



Alar expanse. — 11 nun. 



Habitat. — District of Columbia. 



Type.—^o. 6356, U.S.N.M. 



