188 



[August, 



of umber-brown scales. Foretoinffn pnle oclireous, with uniber-browii luaoulations 

 tlirougliout, indicating no pattern, but tending to form two fasciae, one before, the 

 other beyond the middle, and noticeable in a series of seven or eight spots extend- 

 ing along the costa to the apex, the ante-apical spot tending to become connected 

 with others at the (ornns; cilia jiale ochreous. Ti.rp. aJ., 14 mm. Sindwingx 

 shining, pale greyish, with a slight ochreous tinge : cilia pale ochreous. Alidomen 

 pale ochreous, somewhat shaded with dull leaden grey above. Legs pale ochreous. 



"i'fipc, S (90510). Mus. Wlsm. 



Hah.: ALGEETA— El-Kantara. 25.y.1008 (7F/,9;».) ; Pbilippe- 

 ville (Mna. Jnnnnis and WJsm.). Three specimens. 



T have a fio^ure (1.558 : 1805) taken from the type of multifjiit- 

 tella, Ugt., which shows that in thnt species tlie hlnck scales and spots 

 do not tend to assume the form of fascine converginj^ towards the 

 dorsum, wnich, although ill-definetl, nre traceable in vmrulnfa. 



TINEINAE. 



459 : 1.— ELATOBTA, H.-S. 



n. synn. = Abacobia, Dietz ; = Dietzia, Biisck. 



Typo, Tinea fuliginoselhi,7j. (H.-S., 1853). 



ELATOBIA, H.-S., SB. Schm. Enr., V, 7, 22: VI. PI. X, 10-12 

 (1853) : V, 78 (1854). 



1 (Type) fnli(jinosella , Z. 



Abacobia, Dietz, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, XXX, 22, 29— .30, 92, 

 PI. V, 1, VI, 9 (1905). 1 (ry|)e) fuliyinosella, Z. (= carLoiiella, 

 Dietz). 



Dietzia, Busck, Pr. U.-S., XXX, 735 (1900). 



Bnsck pro])osed tlie neonym dietzia in lieu of abacobi.v, Dietz, 

 which he repjarded as homonymous with abacobius, Lacordaire (1800), 

 CoJeopfera. Opinions ma}' differ as to the validity or invalidity of 

 abacobia, Dietz, but this we need not discuss here, for in 1853 Herrich- 

 Schaifer proposed tlie jjienconym klatobia with the type fi(Iiginosella,Z. 



Elatobia is omitted by Scudder and by Waterhouse. 



4539 : 9. — Elatobia fuliqinosella, Z. 

 u. synn. = inaHineUa, AVkr. ; ■=^ carboneUa, Dietz. 

 'Jmm fuUginosella, Z., Isis, 1846, 273, No. 18 1: Lin. Ent., VI, 

 150-1 (1852)2. Elafohia fiiliginosella, H.-S., SB. Schm. Eur., VI, 

 expl., PI. X, p. v: V, PI. 83, 037 (1853): V. 78 (1851) 3. Tinea fulig ino- 

 sella, Stgr.-Wk., Cat. Lp. Eur., 100, No. 1232 (1801) ^- Wkr. Cat. 

 Lp. B. M., XXVIII, 408, No. 28 (1803) s. Tinea marfinella, Wkr., 



