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Family TINEIDAE. 
Oeta gemmata, Grote. 
Among a collection of Lepidoptera received by the American 
Entomological Society from Professor Poey, of Havana, and which 
collection has been the subject of several papers’® in the Proceedings 
of that Society, is a specimen in excellent conservation, bearing the 
number 821, and belonging to the genus Oeta, Grote. This little 
moth is of a most brilliant golden orange, and the markings of the 
fore wings are similar to those of our United States Oeta compta 
Clemens sp. (= Deiopeia aurea Fitch, as suggested, probably correctly, 
by Mr. Stretch). It is one-third smaller than our species. There 
are, as usual, four bands composed of white dots on a blackish 
ground, but here the dots are smaller and linear, appearing as inter- 
rupted streaks and allowing the darker ground color of the bands 
to obtain. But the bands themselves are narrower in O. gemmata, 
so that the golden appearance of the wings is much less interrupted 
than in O. compta. The third band is furcate before costa, while 
the fourth, covering internal angle, is not connected with the outer 
limb of the apical furcation, as in O. compta. The hind wings are 
smoky hyaline, becoming darker exteriorly. The smoky abdomen 
has a bluish reflection. The legs, palpi and face are dark with white 
points. The basal joint of the fore legs is golden outwardly. 
Altogether, this is a narrower insect that O. compta, and very evi- 
dently a smaller species. The Cuban specimen expands 23 m. m., 
while the fore wings at their greatest breadth near the external mar- 
gin measure 3 millemétres. 
Professor Zeller characterizes Oeta punctella (Cramer) compara- 
tively with O. compta, in the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, p. 
178, 1871. Cramer describes his species from Surinam, while Pro- 
fessor Zeller seems to hesitate to regard his So. American specimens 
as belonging to a distinct species from our United States O. compta. 
16 Grote—Notes on the Sphingidae of Cuba, Proc. E. 8. Phil., Vol. 5, pp. 33-84, 1865; Notes 
on the Bombycidae of Cuba, id., pp. 227-255; Notes on the Zygaenidae of Cuba, id., Vol. 6, 
pp. 178-189, and pp. 297-334, 1866-7; List of the Sphingidae, Aegeriadae, Zygaenidae and 
Bombycidae of Cuba, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. 3, pp. 183-188, October, 1870. 
