Dec. 1900.] BuscK : New Species of Tineina. 247 



Eucatagma, gen. nov. 



Antenna: simple, a little more than half as long as foreVing, basal joint with well- 

 developed eye cap. Labial palpi moderate, somewhat curved, porrected, smooth, 

 pointed ; maxillary palpi obsolete. Tongue well developed, naked, spiraled. Face 

 and head smooth ; fore wings rather broad and short oval, 12 veins all separate, 7 to 

 termen, lb furcate at base ; between vein II and the dorsal edge a thickened opaque 

 area. Hind wings I, costa deflexed from middle of wing, 7 veins, 4 absent, all sep- 

 arate. Posterior tibite smoothly scaled. 



Type : Eucatagma a my rise //a Busck. 

 Eucatagma amyrisella, sp. nov. (Plate IX, Fig. 8.) 



Antenniv light silvery gray. Eyecaps silvery white. Labial palpi silvery gray. 

 Face, head and thorax pure white. Fore wings silvery white, marked with a .soft flan- 

 nel-like gray as follows : Six indistinct equidistant small transverse spots just below 

 costal edge from base to apical third ; two large areas on dorsal half of the wing sep- 

 arated by a narrow irregular white line, the first and largest one occupying the mid- 

 die third of the wing, the other smaller one at tomas ; thVee small transverse spots at 

 apex ; cilia brownish with a thin white transverse line. Hind wing silvery gray, api- 

 cal third darker, cilia lighter silvery. Abdomen white. Legs white with dusky tarsi. 

 Alar expanse 10 mm. 



Habitat : Palm Beach, Florida. 



U. S. National Museum, type no. 5361. Co-type in collection of 

 Meyrick, England. Described from two specimens issued March 12, 

 1900. 



The following are Dr. Dyar's notes on the larva: 



" The larva spins a delicate open web among the very young leaves 

 of Amyris floridana, not drawing the leaves together or distorting 

 them in any way. It rests on a stem or leaf, not on the web. 



" Head .8 mm. wide, slightly bilobed, the lobes full ; clypeus high and broad, 

 green, ocelli black, mouth brown. Body slender, cylindrical, not tapering ; segments 

 not annulate ; feet normal ; subventral fold rather prominent. The circle of crochets 

 of feet complete ; green, translucent ; dorsum heavily darkly shaded from numerous 

 fine dark red mottled lines, becoming more sparse and dotted towards the ends and 

 only faintly traced on joint 2, which looks green. The dorsal ground color appears 

 as about six fine longitudinal irregular lines. Tubercles small, black ; i dorsad to ii, 

 iv and v in line, approximate but distinct on the subventral fold ; vi distinct ; vii on 

 the leg base, a group of three hairs. On joints 3 and 4 tubercles ia and ib are sepa- 

 rate, iia and iib united in a large, round, elevated, deep black tubercle. Seta: fine, 

 pale. No plates. The pupa is formed in the web and is colored green." — (Harri- 

 son G. Dyar. ) 



Food-plant : Amyris floridana. 



