SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF PSEUDACONTIA RHIZOLEUCA BRABANT 59 



A GALLERIINE FEEDING IN CACAO PODS 



{Lepidoptera, Pyralida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



The following new genus may best be placed in the Galleriinac : 



Tineopsis, new genus. 



Fore wing paraJlel-sided, tip roundedly tapered ; 1 veins : 2 well 

 before end of cell ; 3-4 stalked ; 5 absent ; closing vein of cell obsolete 

 below ; 6 free, below tip of cell ; 7-9 stalked, 7 and 8 coincident ; 1 

 and 1 1 from the cell, free. Hind wing elongate, trigonate, the tip pro- 

 duced and outer margin a little excavate below it ; 7 veins : 2 before 

 end of cell ; 3-4 forming a long stalk, forked just on the m2u:gin ; 5 ab- 

 sent ; 6 separate ; 7 and 8 aneistomosing. Tongue completely absent. 

 Palpi of $ slender, upcurved nearly to vertex, covered with dense vesti- 

 ture and appressed to the vertical tuft ; of 9 rostriform, rather thick, por- 

 rect, the end joint drooping, exceeding the long frontal tuft. Eyes large, 

 round. Basal joint of antennae flattened, formmg an eye-cap. Hind 

 tibiae v^th four long spurs. 



Tineopsis theobromae, new species. 



Dark gray ; fore wing without markings. Hind wing paler, silky gray. 

 The head is heavily tufted and with the narrow, pointed wings gives the 

 insect the aspect of a Tineid. Expanse, 13-15 mm. 



Cotypes, two (? , one 9 , No. 1 5 7 1 8, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; bred from 

 " cacao bean " at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1913 (Pennsyl- 

 vania Chocolate Co.). 



NOTE ON THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF 

 PSEUDACONTIA RHIZOLEUCA BRABANT 



(Lepidoptera, Noctuida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



The late E<louard Brabant recently described a noctuid from French 

 Guiana as Pseudacontia ? rhizoleuca (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1912, 

 No. 15, p. 330). He places it in the "Acronyctae" but uses a genus 

 {Pseudacontia Smith) of the Erastriinae. Some specimens aure before me 

 from Mr. Schaus's collecting. I find difficulty in placing them. Vein 5 



