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Alar expanse: 16-17 mm. 



Habitat: St. Louis, Missouri (McElhose, Busck). 

 • Type: U. vS. N. M., No. 10243. 



The tufted thorax and the ochreous markings on the fold of 

 the fore wings distinguish this species from its alUes. 



Hysterosia villana. new species. 



Labial palpi ochreous with under side and tip black. Face, head and thorax 

 ochreous. Fore wings clear straw-yellow with blackish fuscous markings 

 and slightly suffused in irregular spots with deeper ochreous. Base of costa 

 blackish. A basal patch of unmottled yellowreaches further out on the costal 

 edge than on the dorsal edge, and is limited by a large ill-defined dark suf- 

 fused patch, running obliquely across the wing, though not reaching the costal 

 edge. Beyond this central patch is a narrow, nearly unmottled light space 

 across the wing, limiting the dark mottled apical part of the wing in an in- 

 wardly angulated line from tornus to apical third of costal edge. At the end 

 of the cell is a blackish dot, connected with dark apical part by some dark 

 fuscous scales. Hind wings light silvery fuscous on the upper side; under 

 side slightly mottled with dark transverse striation. Abdomen and legs 

 ochreous. 



Alar expanse: 19-21 mm. 



Habitat: Denver, Colorado (Oslar). 



Type: U. S. N. M., No. 10244. 



This species approaches in color aureoalbida, Walsingham, but 

 belongs rather together with the dark species described in the 

 present paper. 



Hysterosia inopiana Haworth. 



There is in the U. S. National Museum a single specimen 

 collected in California by Lord Walsingham, and determined as 

 this species by him. From the comparison of this specimen with 

 European specimens I am unwilHng to pronounce on their identity 

 .but I am incined to regard the record from this country as doubt- 

 ful. 



Genus CARPOSINA Herrich-Schaffer. 



This remarkable genus was defined, naturally rather incom- 

 pletely, as a Tineid genus by Herrich-Schaffer in his "Syst. Bear, 

 der Schmetterlinge von Europa," vol. v., p. 38, 1853, and has not, 

 as far as I am aware, been adequately characterized in print 

 since. It has the following characters: Labial palpi in the female 

 very long, straight, porrected; second joint thickened with short 



