NO. 1304. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 821 



PHTHORIM^^A Meyrick. 

 Plate XXX, tig. 19. 

 Phfhorlwwa Meyrick, Entoin. Mo. Mag., XXXVIII, 1902, p. 10:]. 



Df. Edward Meyrick has been so kind as to pulilish this well- 

 founded genus, which has Geleclua operculeUa Zeller as tj^pe, in advance 

 of his paper, so that it could l)e included in this revision. 



It has the following characters: Labial palpi long, curved; second 

 joint with heavy divided brush beneath; terminal joint nearly as long 

 as second, somewhat thickened, with appressed scales, especially at 

 base; apex pointed. 



Fore wings elongate ovate pointed; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked to costa, 

 rest separate; hindwings as broad as forewings, apex pointed, termen 

 sinuate below apex; 8 Aeins; 6 and 7 separate parallel, 5 nearest 4, 3 

 and 4 connate. In the males the basal half of costal edge forms a 

 broad, shallow fold in which a large, expansible bunch of long, scale- 

 like hairs tind place when the insect is at rest. 



The recognized American species may be separated thus: 



With longitudinal black streaks on forewings xlrUttella, p. 822 



Without such streaks 1 



1. With dark marking on outer halt' of costal edge inannnri'Ila, p. 823 



Without such markings 2 



2. With distinct longitudinal ochreous streaks oprrculclhi, p. 821 



Without such streak s ijlorlihwlla, p. 822 



PHTHORIMiEA OPERCULELLA Zeller. 



Gelechia terreUa Walker (not Fischer v. Rosterstamm), Cat. Lep. Ins. Brit. 



Mus., XXX, 1864, p. 1024. 

 Gelechia {f Bryotropha) operrulcIl<i Zet.ler, Verh. k. k. zool.-))()t. (lesell. Ayien, 



XXIII, 1873, p. 262. 

 Gelechia operculella, Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, j). 145. — Riley, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5434, 1891.— Howard, I". S. Dept. Agr., 



Farmers' Bull., No. 120, 1900, p. 28. 

 Bryotropha solanella Boisduval, Journ. Soc. Cent. Hort. de France, 1874, VIII, 



p. 713. 

 Gelechia tahacella Ragoxot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1879. 

 Gefec/ti« sofane^to Staudinoer and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Eup., II, No. 20;>6, 1901. 

 Phtorimu'a operculella Meyrick, Ent. Mo. Mag., XXXVIII, 1902, p. 103.— BrscK, 



Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5616, 1903. 



While studying Zeller's types in the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy in Cambridge, dui'ing May, 1*J(»(), I decided that his Gelechia oper- 

 culella was the same as the common tobacco and potato feeding Tineid, 

 which had hitherto passed under the name solanella Boisduval. 

 Zeller's types in Cambridge, which are in fine condition, leave no doubt 

 thereon, and his description and figure further substantiate it. 



However, I did not at the time wish to change the name of so Avell- 

 known an insect entirely on n\y own observation, but was able, through 

 the kindness of Mr. S. Henshaw, to submit one t^^pe (male) to Mr. E. 



