234 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. vii:. 



•whitish line, broadening at apex and inner angle ; fringe dark with white spots at 

 ends of the veins. Secondaries dark brown ; the costal margin whitish crossed by 

 three brown lines. Expanse 30 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. 

 Hydrias varona, sp. nov. 



9 Body dull grayish brown. Wings dull grayish brown, the veins slightly oliva- 

 ceous. Primaries a broad median paler shade on costa, rather indistinct ; a subter- 

 minal wavy paler shade. Expanse 50 mm. 



Habitat : Castro, Parana. Somewhat like the species of Tityd. 



NEW AMERICAN TINEINA. 



By August Busck. 



U. S. Department of Agricidliire, Washington, D. C. 



In the present unsatisfactory state of our knowledge of American 

 Tineina it is of little value (or worse) to describe promiscuously new 

 species from collected material, difficult of subsecjuent recognition. 

 No one is any the better off because he learns that such and such a 

 new species of Geleciiia or LitJiocoIletis has been taken in such and 

 such a locality. Only when working up a group, either faunistic, or 

 preferably systematic, does it seem to me excusable at present to de- 

 scribe more species, which are known from the type specimen only. 

 Exceptions may be made in the case of new generic forms or espe- 

 cially striking or otherwise interesting species. I believe anyone will 

 endorse this view who has tried to grope through Chambers' flood of 

 descriptions, many of which represent only valueless names, a dead 

 weight on our lists, and which will not for a long time, if ever again, 

 be connected with the species they represent. But as it will take years 

 before the American Tineina fauna can be worked up systematically by 

 groups, which is the end for which we should strive, it does not seem 

 desirable in the meanwhile to withhold from publication new forms, 

 of which the life history has been ascertained and which are of such 

 interest as to be of some positive gain to our knowledge. 



And here I might point out an opportunity for any student, who 

 has not the facilities or the desire to do systematic work, but who still 



