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T. vicinclla n. sp. — Labial palpi dark brown. Head, basal joint of an- 

 tennae and large oval spot on anterior part of thorax saffron-yellow, remainder 

 of thorax and antennae dark, coffee-brown, latter rather thick, joints closely set, 

 without scales. Forewings rather elongate, uniformly dark coffee-brown, with 

 some lustre; on the fold the dark is intensified and along it is a row of large 

 whitish scales; some similar scales on the disc beyond the middle. Cilia brown. 

 Hindwings fully as wide as the forewings, costa not retuse, pale fuscous, with 

 some brassy lustre; underside of wings fuscous, hindwings paler. Abdomen 

 above, body beneath and legs sordid ochreous, dusted with fuscous; anterior 

 and middle legs dark fuscous, tarsal joints paler at the apex. 



Exp. 20.0 mm.; 0.8 inch. 



Hab.— Florida (Gotha). 



A male specimen, not in very good condition, in ray collection. 

 Its nearest ally is thoracestrigella, but larger. In size it comes close 

 to leucoeapitella, but the head is distinctly yellow, lacks the plical 

 spot of that species and has a large yellow spot on the thorax. 



T. unomaculella (Jh.— Dyar's List, p. 573, No. 6526. — "Thorax and fore- 

 wings dark brown, with a yellowish spot at the end of the cell ; antennae and 

 outer suface of the labial palpi brown, inner surface and apex yellowish; head 

 and maxillary palpi yellowish, under surface and legs yellowish, marked with 

 fuscous. Al. ex. 1 inch. Texas." 



The type, an unspread specimen, but otherwise in good condition, 

 is in Cambridge; beside the spot at end of cell, there is a semi cir- 

 cular spot, at two thirds of the fold and seven or eight spots at the 

 base of the cilia. The palpi rather thick, third joint obtase. In a 

 specimen in my collection the plical spot is obsolete on one wing. 



T. iliveocapitella Ch.— Dyar's List, p. 572, No. 6516.— "'Dark brown : 

 there is a small pale ochreous or whitish spot just within the dorsal margin, 

 placed about midway of the wing length and margined before by black scabs; 

 head very pale yellowish white*; maxillary palpi fuscous, lahial palpi dark brown, 

 the third joint tipped with pale yellowish or white. Al. ex. 7 lines. California." 



I have not seen this species; it appears to be very closely allied 

 to leucoeapitella and vlcinella, but smaller. More extensive mate- 

 rial may prove them to be mere varieties of the species under con- 

 sideration. 



T. leucoeapitella Busck.— Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXVII, 776. 

 This species, of which I have been permitted to see the type, is 

 very closely related to niveocapitella Ch., from which, to judge by 

 the description of the latter alone, it appears to differ by its larger 

 size (22.5 mm.) ; and the absence of the pale spot at end of cell ; the 

 palpi are wanting. In both species the spot on the fold is midway 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXI. FEBRUARY. 1905. 



