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[Extracted from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of Philadelphia, Vol. II. pp. 415-430, March, 1864.] 



NORTH AMERICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS, M.D. 



Labradoeian Tineina. 

 Tinea. 



1. Tinea biflavimaculella* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 Sept. 1859, p. 257. 



A single, much mutilated specimen collected in Labrador 

 by Mr. A. S. Packard, Jr., and numbered 1631. 



Mr. Stainton remarks in his Observations on American 

 Tineina : This insect is closely allied to, if not identical with, 

 Tinea Spilotella (see Linn. Ent. vi. p. 108, Rusticella, 

 var. b.). Spilotella appears confined to the North of Europe, 

 occurring in Finland and Scotland. 



Ornix. t 



q%1|] 2. Ornix Boreasella, n. s. Fore-wings dark fuscous, 

 with two white costal spots, one exterior to the middle of the 

 costa, and the other midway between the first and the apex 

 of the wing ; and with two white dorsal spots, one a little 

 interior to the first costal spot, and the other, with some 

 scattered white scales, opposite the second costal spot. Cilia 

 dark fuscous, with a white patch behind the second dorsal 

 spot, and apparently a few white scales on the costa behind 



* See ante, p. 50. H. T. S. 

 f See ante, p. 94. H. T. S. 



