820 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PARALECHIA, new genus. 

 Plate XXX, fig. 18. 



Antenna? simple, rather thick, three-fourths as long as forewing. 

 Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending-; second joint somewhat 

 thickened beneath with rough scales; terminal joint shorter than 

 second, pointed. Forewings elongate, ovate; apex bluntly pointed, 

 dorsal edge slightly sinuate at vein 2; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked to 

 costa, 6 separate; 3, 4, and 5 long approximate from end of cell, 2 dis- 

 tant shorter. 



Hindwings narrower than forewings, elongate trapezoidal, termen 

 slightly sinuate below apex; 8 veins, 6 and 7 parallel, 5 approximate 

 to J:, 3 and -i connate or short stalked, 



Forewings with raised scales. 



Onl}" the following two species are at present known: 



Forewings -white and Ijlack criMifasciella, p. 820 



Forewings brown inmfoliella, p. 820 



PARALECHIA PINIFOLIELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia pinifoliella Chambers, .Tourn. Cinn. 8oc. Nat. Hist., II, 1880, p. 181. — 

 CoMSTOCK, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., V, 1890, p. 793, fig. 269.— Riley, Smith's 

 List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5448. 



Aristotelia pinifoliella Dietz, Smith's List Ins. N. Jersey, 1900, p. 475. 



Paralediia pinifoliella BuscK, Dyar's List. Amer. Lep., No. 5614, 1903. 



Chambers t3^pe (No. 458) and a large bred series of this common 

 moth are in the U. S. National Museum. 

 Ilahltat. — Atlantic States. 



PARALECHIA CRISTIFASCIELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia rristifo.'^ciellaCnAiiKERs, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 87, 142. — 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5847, 1891. 

 Gelechia {Poedlia) mscrija^a Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 1882, 



p. 180. 

 Gelechia insci'inta Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5390, 1891. — Dietz, 



Smith's List Ins. N. Jersey, 1900, p. 474. 

 Paralechia criMifasciella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5615, 1903. 



In the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge there are two 

 types of cristifascieUa^ received from Chambers and in good condi- 

 tion. They show conclusively that this species is the same as Wals-i 

 Ingham's mscripta, an authentic specimen of which, labeled by thej 

 author, is in the U. S. National Museum. The descriptions also agree. 4 



I have repeatedly bred this species from oak, where the larva andl 

 pupa are found between leaves spun together, but have unfortunatel^vl 

 no serviceable description of the larva. | 



The moth from overwintered pupw appears in April, and in Ju 

 another generation is found as imagos. 



Habitat. — Eastern United States, Missouri, Kentucky. 



