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VALENTINIA Wish. 

 Type glandulella Riley. 



Labial palpi long, recurved, slender ; generally more robust 

 with the terminal joint relatively shorter in the male than in 

 the female. Antennae shorter than the forewings, basal joint 

 broad, convex, with distinct pecten, deeply excised above 

 the latter with a scale tuft in the excision in the male ; shaft 

 stouter in the male than female. Forewings elongate, pointed, 

 costa approximately straight, depressed to apex in apical part. 

 Twelve veins, 7 and 8 stemmed, 7 to costa, remaining veins 

 free. Hindwings variable ; nearly as wide as the forewings, 

 with dorsal margin more or less distinctly curved, cilia 

 scarcely over \\, or scarcely half as wide as the forewing, 

 dorsal margin nearly straight from near the base to the 

 acutely pointed apex and cilia 2 or over. Eight veins, 6 

 and 7 separate, 4 and 5 stemmed, 3 free, arising before the 

 angle of the cell. Abdomen somewhat flattened. Hind 

 tibise long haired above. 



As far as known the genus is only represented in North 

 America. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



1. Forewings with fascia, at one-third 2. 



Forewing without such a fascia 6. 



2. Spots at end of cell distinct 3. 



Spots obliterated by a transverse fascia 4. nothrotes. 



3. Forewings not obviously narrowed from anal angle 4. 



Forewings narrowed from anal angle 3. qiiaiiitancella. 



4 . Fascia angulated 5 



Fascia curved 5. retectella. 



5. Fascia heavily shaded in costal portion 1. glandulella. 



Fascia not so shaded 2. fractilinea. 



6. Ochreous-gray, a subcostal spot near the base 6. floridella. 



Without such a spot 7 . 



7. Pale yellowish-white ; a streak in basal third 7. canfectella. 



Pale creamy yellow; no such a streak 8. repartella. 



1. V. glandulella Riley. (Plate I, fig. 8,8a.)— Head and thorax 

 ashen gray, densely speckled with dark fuscous scales; antennae dark 

 fuscous, basal joint with pecten, grayish-ochreous ; in the male stouter, 

 deeply excised above basal joint with a strong scale tuft in the exci- 

 sion ; shaft denticulate and shortly ciliate below ; in the female more 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. FEBRUARY, 1910. 



