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convinced that it is new, and suggest for it the name T. clemensella. It 

 is the same species referred to by me as T. zelleriella f in Cin. Quar. 

 Jour. Sci. ii. 110 (April, 1875). So far as I have been able to learn, 

 there is no authentic specimen of zelleriella now extant, aud we must 

 content ourselves with Dr. Clemeus's brief description. 



Messrs. Frey aud Boll describe a species as zelleriella Clem., suggest- 

 ing the name complanoides for it if it should prove distinct from zelle- 

 riella. It is impossible to say whether complanoides = zelleriella or not ; 

 but complanoides has "the antennae, head, aud breast vivid egg-yellow, 

 of the same color as in the European species {complanella), and the fore 

 wings of the same color". In clemensella, tbe face, palpi, breast, and 

 legs are paler than tbe fore wings, even in the <?, and very much so in 

 the 9; aud, as I understand the description of complanoides, the base 

 of the hind wings is darkened, which is not the case with this species. 

 I do not recognize any species that I have seen in Dr. Clemens's account 

 of zelleriella, nor in that of complanoides by Frey aud Boll. 



T. .asNiA, Frey & Boll. 



In a paper in the Cin. Quar. Jour. Sci. i., I denied the distinctness 

 of this species, which mines the leaves of Bnbus villosus, from T. mali- 

 foliella Clem., which mines Apple leaves. The species had been long 

 known to me before it was described by Frey and Boll as T. cenia, and 

 was referred to by me (loc. cit. iii. 208) as identical with malifoliella. I am 

 not now so certain that it is identical, and probably the greater num- 

 ber of entomologists would concur with Frey and Boll in regarding it as 

 a new species, or a phytophagic species or variety; and yet the only 

 constant or material difference that I have observed is "that T. cenia is 

 of a richer bronzed-brown, while malifoliella is of a duller dead brown. 

 I have received from Mr. Belfrage, from Texas, a single specimen iu 

 good condition, aud now in the museum at Cambridge, labelled T. ceniaf, 

 the food-plant of which is unknown, and which seems to me to bear 

 about the same relation to the Blackberry species that the latter does 

 to the species from the Apple; that is, it is of a brigbter, more brassy 

 lustre than T. tenia from the Blackberry. It is a little smaller than T. 

 cenia aud T. malifoliella, which are of nearly the same size, and the face 

 aud palpi are of a different hue. It will probably prove to be a new 

 species. Tbey may all be regarded as "phytophagic species". 



T. pulvella, n. sp. 



Antennae pale ocbreous; vertex whitish, stained with ochreous; face 

 aud palpi white; thorax and fore wings white, suffused with pale ochre- 

 ous, and densely dusted with ochreous-fuscous, paler and less dusted 

 beueatb the fold; hind wings and cilia pale lead-color ; under surface of 

 fore wings ochreo-fuscous, that of the bind wings whitish ; both wings 

 wide for this genus. Abdomen whitish, dusted with fuscous; anal tuft 

 yellowish-silvery; legs yellowish-white. Alar expansion four lines. 

 Texas. 



