AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 45 



Fuscipiinctella Group. 



The species which comprise this group resemble each other in 

 general appearance and mode of wing markings. Ground color of 

 fore wings ochreous or grayish, with an ochreous tinge, dusted and 

 marked with dark fuscous ; stigmata generally all present. Hind 

 wings as wide or wider than the fore wings (except bimaculella), 

 costa not or feebly retuse beyond the insertion of vein 8, which 

 attains the margin about three-fourths or four -fifths the wing length. 

 Head never white. 



1 have arranged the species as follows : 



Forewings with large, well-marked costal spots; eyes as widely separated be- 

 neath as their diameter. 



Ground color of forewings ochreous misella. 



Forewings grayish fuscous <>b*<-iii'0*l rigel la. 



Costal spots, when present, small and irregular; eyes separated beneath less than 

 their diameter. 

 Forewings ochreous; stigmata all present. 



A semi-circular spot on base of forewing fiiNCi punctella. 



Without such a spot. 



A dark streak from base to apex :ipi<i maculella . 



Without such a streak. 



Dark spot on middle of dorsal margin orleansella. 



Without such a spot. 



A row of spots in the fold. 



Forewings stramineous Nil rami n iel la. 



Costal half of forewing fuscous brown bimaculella. 



Fold without row of spots. 

 Without transverse lines. 



Wings broader, pale yellow trimaculella. 



Wings more elongate, ochreous brown rarnai'iella. 



With transverse lines • • -griseella. 



Forewings pale gray to grayish fuscous, tinged with ochreous; first discal spot 

 often absent or ill-defined. 



With paler lines in apical part of wing grumel la. 



Without pale line. 



Forewings nearly unicolorous pelliouella. 



Forewings not unicolorous misceella. 



T. misella Zell.— Dyar's List, p. 572, No. 6514. — Maxillary palpi ochreous; 

 labial palpi moderate, ochreous, more or less fuscous enternally, second joint setu- 

 lose beneath and at the apex, third joint somewhat compressed, pointed. Head 

 ochreous brown, more so on vertex. Thorax brown, patagia paler. Antenna- 

 brown, indistinctly annulated with yellow, basal joint with pecten. Forewings 

 elongate-elliptic, ochreous, overlaid in varying density with dark brown ; basal 

 half of costa with numerous dots almost concealing the ochreous; beyond the 

 middle are two large, subquadrate spots, and between them a smaller dot (some- 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXI. JANUARY. 1905. 



