246 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. viii. 



Fig. 6) that this species differs in some respects in the fore wing from 

 that given by Dr. Meyrick as characteristic of the genus ; but the 

 toiit-oiscinble of the insect, the larva and the cocoon is so evidently 

 close to the European forms, that I do not hesitate in placing it in the 

 same genus. 



The venation of the present species is : Fore wing, lo veins, 4 and 

 8 absent, all separate, 7 to costa, ib furcate at base. Hindwing : 

 6 veins, 3 and 4 absent, cell open between veins 2 and 5. 



Tinea oregonella, sp. nov. (Plate IX, Fig. 7.) 



Antennfe dark fuscous. Labial palpi brownish, both joints tipped with white. 

 Maxilary palpi very short white. Face and head rough, yellowish white. Fore 

 wing rusty white, somewhat variably marked with dark l)rown, nearly black, longi- 

 tudinal streaks. The two most conspicuous and constant are one on the fold reaching 

 from the base to the apical third of the wing and one in the middle of the wing, reach- 

 ing from basal third to apex. At the base of wing is a costal and a dorsal less con- 

 spicuous streak and along the edge of the wing is a more or less regular row of dark 

 brown spots ; cilia white, dusted with reddish brown. Hind wing dark gray, cilia 

 yellowish. The ground color of the wing varies somewhat in different specimens, 

 being pure dull white in some while in others ii is reddish or brownish ; and with the 

 exception of the two first-mentioned heavy streaks all the other markings are some- 

 times nearly effaced, while in other specimens they are emphasized. Also the color 

 of the streaks is somewhat different in different specimens ranging from brown to pure 

 black. Legs white ; tarsi with black annulations, tuft on hind tibise yellowish. Alar 

 expanse 15-17 mm. 



Habitat : Oregon. 



U. S. National Museum, type no. 5360. Co-types in the collec- 

 tions of Murtfeldt, Fernald, Dietz, Meyrick, Walsingham, and maybe 

 obtained for any other collections where they may be desired. 



Described from some 300 specimens bred from a large woody 

 Polyporus-like fungus on Redwood, containing about half a cubic 

 foot, collected in Oregon by Dr. H. von Schrenk, and kindly turned 

 over to me by Mr. E. A. Bessey, of the Division of Vegetable Pa- 

 thology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



When I received the fungus many moths had already issued, more 

 than two hundred, in fact, from an actual count of the protruding 

 empty pupa-skins. 



I placed the fungus in a covered glass jar and during the following 

 Aveek (late September) more than six hundred more moths issued. 

 The fungus was a curious sight, looking like a strange hedge-hog, with 

 the closely-set projecting empty pupa-skins sticking forth like spines. 



