March, 1901.] DyAR : PyRALID LaRV^ FROM FLORIDA. 23 



dish reticulate over the apices and the lobes, mouth brown ; ocelli, a spot behind and 

 the posterior rim of the lobes black ; width 1. 1 mm. Body shaped as in L. intcgra and 

 colored much the same, but the tubercles, and especially iii, are shaded with black, 

 and the excretory tubules show very distinctly white as long finely waved lines in a 

 recurved loop reaching forward from joint 10 to 8 on each side. Tubercles slightly 

 elevated, iv -f- v. Segments shining, obscurely 2-annulate. 



Food-plant : Capsicum frutescens ; the habits as in Z. Integra. 

 Thyridopyralis, gen. nov. 



Median nervure non-pectinate, proboscis absent, veins 7 and 8 of hind wings 

 strongly anastomosing. Palpi porrect, uniformly scaled, projecting about the length 

 of the head in front ; maxillary palpi distinct, slender, dilated with scales at the 

 end. Antennse short, simple, thickened toward base and scaled above. Legs moderate, 

 the hind tibiae with four spurs. Fore wing with a long branch from the basal loop of 

 vein I ; Ic absent ; median 4-branched, veins 2 to 4 equally spaced, 5 very close 104 ; 

 cell weakly closed ; a small accessory cell ; vein 6 from the middle of the accessory 

 cell ; 7 and 8 stalked from the end of the accessory cell, 9 absent ; lo from the end 

 of the accessory cell ; II from the cell, free ; 12 from base. Hind wings with two 

 internal veins, Ic absent, scarcely with even a rudiment toward base ; median vein as 

 on fore wings ; cell closed, the upper part obliquely retracted ; veins 6 and 7 stalked, 

 the upper vein of the cell weak ; 8 strong, free from base, broadly anastomosing with 

 7 beyond the cell ; $ frenulum a long spine. 



T. gallserandialis, sp. nov. 



Head ashen, palpi, front and basal antennal tuft purple brown ; thorax purple 

 brown, tips of patagia and end of thorax pale sordid ashen. Abdominal segments 

 broadly ringed with black at base. Fore wing whitish, sordid tinted except in the 

 disk ; a large subbasal quadrate purplish black patch resting on the costa and con- 

 tinued not quite to inner margin, joined to the narrow dark costal edge ; a rounded 

 elliptical patch in the disk, oblique, lying between vein I and the subcostal and 

 centered nearly by the origin of vein 2, reddish purple, relieved by a patch of orange 

 scales toward costa and toward inner margin and a little tuft of raised metallic scales 

 toward base. A small cluster of purple scales on accessory cell. Subterminal line 

 finely crenulate, gently incurved on the lower third, linear, purple brown, but pre- 

 ceded by a broad purple brown shaded band which is pulverulent and obscure on the 

 upper half, distinct below, diffuse inwardly. Three purple brown patches on the 

 margin, the costal one faint and powdery, those at centre of margin and at anal angle 

 distinct. A terminal row of blackish dots, often obsolete. Fringe pale, interlined 

 with dark opposite the dark spots and black tipped. Hind wing sordid white, a 

 terminal shaded black band, broad at apex ; sometimes an outer wavy diffuse band. 

 In one 9 nearly the whole wing is suffused with brown. Expanse, 27 to 29 mm. 



Six specimens, Key West, Florida (E. A. Schwarz), Pahii Beach, 

 Florida. U. S. Nat. Museum, type no. 5418. 



Prof. Fernald examined a specimen of this interesting moth and 

 said: " Not a micro.; I do not know where it should be placed." 



