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COPTOTRICHE Wlsm. 

 1 zellerieUa Clem. 



Tiseheria zclleriella Clem. ( 1859). 



= Tiseheria complanoides F. and B. (1873). 

 = Tiseheria zellerella F. and B. (1873). 

 = Tiseheria latipennella Chamb. (1878). 



TISCHERIA Z. 



Since the late Professor Frey's types have come into my hands I have gained much 

 information about this genus and have at least one important correction to make in my 

 previous notes. 



1. Tiseheria citrinipennella Clem. <? 



=^ quercitella Clem. 9 



= quercivorella Chamb. ^ $ 



2. Tiseheria badiella Chamb. 



=^ citrinipennella Stn. and Wlsm. {nee Clem.) 



= sulphurea, Wlsm. [Insect Life ii, 324 (1890) (nee Frey). 



The specimen which I supposed to be citrinipennella Clem., as compared with the 

 type in 1871, exhibits no signs of the fuscous patch at the base of the hind wing, re- 

 ferred to in the description of that species. 



The specimen sent by Clemens to Stainton under this name agrees with mine and 

 also wants this character although both are males. 



These two spe imens have the faint gray spot at the anal angle of the fore wings 

 noticed by Staititon in his republication of Clemens's papers [Tin. N. Am, p. 39, and 

 foot note p. 82 (1872)] on which I had partly relied for the identification of my speci- 

 men. 



This distinguishing mark was not referred to by Clemens, and considering the num- 

 ber of closely allied species of this genus which have since been found in the United 

 States it is extremely probable that Clemens had more than one species in the series 

 from which he selected the example sent to Stainton. 



The only species known to me (and I have a lar i amount of material for compari- 

 son) in which the fuscous patch occurs at the base of the wings of the male (not in the 

 female) is qtiercivordla Chamb., while the only one of the pale yellow oak-feeding 

 species which possesses the dark scaling at the angle of the fore wings is badiella 

 Chamb. 



It is therefore more than probable that querciv orella Chamb. equals the true citrini- 

 pennella C\eii\. [indeed Chambers himself seems to have had a strong suspicion of 

 this syiioiu HIV iCin. Qr. Jr. Sc, ii, 110), and I have had it from larvte received as 

 citrinipennell'i Horn Miss Murtfeldt J, whereas badiella Chamb., although in Clemens's 

 possession, was uot specifically described by him. 



I have already identified quercivorella Chamb. as a synonym of quereitella Clem. 

 [Insect Life, ii, .324 (1890)] which was described from a single crippled specimen. It 

 was not surprising that Clemens should have failed to recognize the female of his 

 citrinipennella in a specimen absolutely devoid of the characteristic dark patch which 

 distinguishes the male. Female specimens from Frey's collection and Zeller's are 

 labeled quereitella Clem, and correspond with those females which I have bred from 

 the same mines as produced typical maley with the dark patch. 



Tiseheria sulphurea Frey. 



The hind wings of the ^ are broad and evenly lanceolate and the costal cilia are 

 brownish fuscous for three-quarters of the wing-length, but especially from the base. 

 The fore wings possess a thick mat of coarse, closely appressed scales on the under side 

 along the discal cell. It is remarkable that Frey should not have observed that the 



