AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 71 



HOIHOSTIKEA gen. n. 



Ty j >e curviliniella. 



Head very rough. Labial palpi cylindrical, depressed, second 

 joint with apical setse and roughened beneath with scales, third 

 joint shorter than the second, pointed. Maxillary palpi plicate. 

 Antenna? two-thirds the length of forewings, simple in both sexes, 

 rather thick, inserted very close to the orbital margin. Forewings 

 lanceolate, pointed ; 12 veins, 5, 6 and 7 from a common stem, 1^ 

 simple; an accessory cell. Hindwings narrower than the forewings, 

 lanceolate, costal margin retuse in apical three-fifth. Cilia 1] ; 7 

 veins, cell open between 3 and 4, 5 evanescent towards its origin, 6 

 wanting, vein 8 attains the margin at two-fifths. Hind tibiae 

 roughened with coarse long hairs. 



Distinctly Tinea-like in appearance, but wings rather narrow. 

 One specie-. 



H. cnrviliniella n. sp.~Pl. VI, fig. 8. — Head ochre-yellow. Labial and 

 maxillary palpi grayish fuscous, with more or less dark brown. Antenna? fus- 

 cous. Thorax brown, ends of patagia paler. Forewings a sordid yellowish, 

 dusted with fuscous, basal part of extreme costa dark fuscous; the fuscous dust- 

 ing condensed along the costa, except its last fifth, extreme base and particularly 

 anal angle blackish ; a blackish spot in costal half of wing, before the middle, a 

 curved black line, more or less interrupted, in the middle of the apical third, 

 curved towards and somewhat nearer to the dorsal margin, some scattered scales, 

 more pronounced along the dorsal margin ; in the apical part of the wing are 

 some scattered whitish scales. Cilia concolorous with two or three irregular 

 darker lines; underside purplish fuscous. Hindwings grayish fuscous with a 

 feeble brassy lustre towards the apex. Cilia grayish fuscous, paler at their base ; 

 underside pale fuscous. Legs yellowish gray, tibia dusted with fuscous, anterior 

 dark fuscous; anterior tarsi dark brown, middle and posterior fuscous above ; 

 hairs of posterior tibia grayish. Abdomen entirely grayish fuscous. 



Huh. — District of Columbia; Missouri (St. Louis); Kansas 

 (Onaga) ; Louisiana (Vowells Mill). 



The insect shows distribution over a considerable territory. It is 

 possible that it may have been described before, but if so, no de- 

 scription of any North American Tinea tallies, nor does it corres- 

 pond with any types in the Clemens' collection or those at Cam- 

 bridge and in the National Museum. 



TIMOI-A H. S. 

 Dyar's List, p. 570, No. 64 s ?. 



Head entirely rough haired. Tongue and maxillary palpi rudi- 

 mentary. Labial palpi porrect, somewhat drooping, second joint 

 rough scaled beneath with spreading apical bristles, terminal shorter 



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



