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blunt projection toward the costa. Near the base is a broad, 

 dark purple band from the costa, which forms the interior 

 limit of the excavation. The costa, from the band to the 

 base of the wing, and the base of the inner margin, is dark 

 purplish. Extreme base of the wing yellow. Cilia purplish, 

 with an intercilial paler line. Hind-wings and cilia pale 

 fuscous. 



Face yellowish; head above tinted with purplish. An- 

 tennas yellowish, annulated with purplish. Labial palpi yel- 

 lowish, with a brownish spot on the end of the middle joint, 

 and the tip of the terminal joint brownish. 



A single specimen. Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila. 



Tinea. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., September, 1859, p. 257.* 



$ s/jwM^ Tinea tapetzella, Lin. Fore-wings blackish at the base, 

 extended further along the costa than on the inner margin ; 

 the remainder of the wing is yellowish-white. The whitish 

 portion of the wing is marked with numerous, interrupted 

 transverse blackish strias, and at the base of the nervules, in 

 the middle of the wing, is a blackish spot and two or three 

 small ones at the apex of the wing. Cilia whitish, at ex- 

 treme apex fuscous. Hind-wings dark gray, with paler cilia. 



Head and face white. Palpi white; second joint exter- 

 nally dark fuscous. Antennas fuscous. 



This is an European insect and does not differ from the 

 descriptions and figures of European authors. I have never 

 before, however, met with a specimen of it and do not know 

 the circumstances of its capture. 



A single specimen. Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila. 



*•• 



CoLEOPnoRA, Zeller. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., March, 1863, p. G.j 



-f ^jXu<fi Coleophora cratipennclla, n. s. Fore-wings white, striped 

 ll ft*' along the veins with dark ochreous. From the base of the 



* See ante, p. 49. II. T. S. • 

 t See ante, p. 210. H. T. S. 



