DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW TINEOIDEA. 



By W. D. Kearfott. 



The majority of the following species are the result of breeding 

 from larvae found on various food plants in New Jersey. 



I am indebted to Mr. August Busck for very kindly working up 

 the genera of most of the species, in fact more than half of the 

 species are described on his authority that they were unknown. I 

 have also to acknowledge my obligation to Mr. C. L. Pollard for all 

 the botanical determinations, excepting the conifera, also to Dr. W. 

 H. Ashmead for all identifications of the hymenopterous parasites, and 

 my thanks are especially due to Mrs. William Beutenmiiller, for the 

 very artistic and perfectly drawn figures for the plate that accompanies 

 this paper ; and it is with much pleasure that I can add my small testi- 

 mony to the generally conceded opinion, that Mrs. Beutenmiiller is the 

 first in the ranks of the entomological artists of this cguntry. 

 Symphysa adelalis, sp. nov. Plate IX, Figs, ii and 20. 



Head and thorax pure white, eyes black. Tongue short, yellow. Palpi short, 

 porrect, second joint with long loose projecting scales beneath, apical joint short, not 

 pointed ; color white, shaded with pale golden-brown. Antennte one third length of 

 forewing, ciliated ; basal joint white, enlarged, outer joints white, with annular rings 

 of pale brown on each, darker on the inside. Forewing pure white, a few pale brown 

 scales on median line at base, an interrupted band of the same from costa to inner 

 margin, before middle, the scales within this band on the inner margin are very long 

 and tipped with dark brown. An ovate discal spot of dark brown raised scales. A 

 sub-outer marginal band of very pale brown from costa before apex to inner angle, 

 broadening below and extending up to discal spot and below cell almost to and some- 

 times coalescing with inner band. A few raised yellowish scales, tipped with brown 

 on costa just before apex, in some specimens this is a well-defined spot, in strongly 

 marked specimens there are three small brown dots on outer margin, just below apex. 

 Cilia a pale brown inner band, then a nearly white band, scales tipped with dark 

 brown at apex, becoming paler below. The markings are repeated on the underside, 

 but intensified, and concentrated into two patches of dark brown, one before the dis- 

 cal spot and one subapical. Hindwing pure white, with two shades or patches of 

 light brown on the inner margin, the inner about middle of margin extends upward to 

 cell, the outer beginning at anal angle reaches to within a quarter or a third of apex, 

 nearly parallel to outer margin, in the darkest specimens these shades almost or quite 

 coalesce at their upper parts. There are two tufts of very long raised white scales, 

 tipped with brown, one on median line beginning at base and ending over inner brown 

 shade where the brown tips form a distinctly darker spot, the lower one extends from 

 inner angle to about inner third of dorsum, and the brown tips form another spot at 



