NOVEMBER, 1859. 01 



[Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, November, 1859, pp. 317—328.] 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEROLOGY.— No. 2. 



BY BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS, M.D. 



TlNEINA. 



LlTHOCOLLETID^. 



Imago with pointed or almost caudate anterior wings, 

 with the costal nervure rather short, and nearly coincident 

 with the basal portion of the anterior margin ; with the 

 subcostal simple from the base to the apical third of the 

 wino-, where it delivers to the costa two or three very short 

 marginal nervules (except in Tischeria) ; with the discoidal 

 cell usually acute behind, with one or two branches to the tip 

 of the wing ; with the median simple nearly to the tip, and 

 dividing into two approximated nervules, with the submedian 

 simple. The posterior wings linear-lanceolate, with a very 

 short costal nervure at the base ; with the subcostal nervure 

 simple ; with the median nervure simple and both rather 

 faintly indicated. 



Table of Genera. 



Head with a tuft above. 

 Tuft abundant and hairy. 

 Antennae simple. 

 Lithocolletis. Anterior wings with two subcosto-mar- 

 ginal veins, and one from the apex of the discoidal celL 



