NO.1301. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 835 



it i.s learned tliut the hirvie live in steni-j^alls on thi^ above plant and 

 that the iniauos issued Scpteni])er 18 to 23. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA TERRACOTTELLA Busck. 



Giiuriinnsriicma ierracottella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., XXIII, 1900, p. 227, 

 pi. I, H.tr. 3, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5641, 1903. — Dyak, Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Wanh., IV, 1901, p. 471. 



This striking species is easily disting'uishcd from all othei-s in the 

 .^'•enus by its pnre white head and costal marking's. 

 Food plant. — Iw hnhrlcdfii. 

 [L(h!f,it.—F2i\m Beach, Florida (Dyar). 

 7}//;^^.— No. 4934. U.S.N.M. 



NEODACTYLOTA, new genus. 



Plate XXX, figH. 21, 22, 23. 



Type, Dactylota Hnellenella Walsingham. 



As observed by Lord Walsingham/ his species described as Dac- 

 tylota sneUenella differs in several important characters from the t3q3e 

 of Dactylota Snellen {Didactijlota Walsingham.) I am now able to add 

 a congeneric species, and it is proper to erect a separate genus for the 

 American forms, which have the following characters: Labial palpi 

 long, slender, recurved; second joint slightly thickened beneath with 

 nearly smoothly appressed scales; terminal joint much longer than 

 second, smooth, slender-pointed. Forewings narrow, elongate ovate, 

 pointed; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked to costa, rest separate. Hindwings 

 in male as broad as forewings, bilobed, costal and dorsal edge nearly 

 parallel, apex produced, pointed, termen deeply emarginate below apex, 

 forming a shorter obtuse second lobe; costal vein straight, connected 

 by short oblique crossbar to the subcostal at l>asal third; veins 6 and 7 

 stalked; cell not closed; discal vein and veins 4 and 5 obsolete, the 

 latter onl}^ slightly indicated b}' faint traces. The females are unknown 

 to me, but, according to Lord Walsingham, the}" have not l)ilo])ed hind- 

 wings, though termen is deeply emarginate below the apex, and the 

 discal vein is present, as well as veins 4 and 5, which are stalked. His 

 lordship has kindly, through Mr. J. H. Durrant, sent me a sketch of 

 the venation of the hindwing in the female, which is reproduced. 

 (Plate XXX, tig. 22.) 



The West Indian species, Didactylota htcolor Walsingham, will (juite 

 surely be found not to belong to this genus, but to Nealyda Dietz. 



At present only the following two species are recognized, which may 

 be easih' separated, thus: 



Forewings light gray 7, xiirJIenclbt, p. 836 



Forewings dark purplisli brown 2, harbercl/fi, p. 836 



Insect Life, I, pp. 83, 84. 



