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Myrmicocela ochracella, a European lepidopteron allied to the 

 Tineiiia, is also kuown to occur iu ants' nests. In most of these cases 

 it is probable that the species preferred the dead vegetation to the liv- 

 ing, and such we know to be the case with the P;yTalid, Asopia costaUSy 

 the Clover Hay- worm. 



As might have been supposed, from the region of country whence 

 it comes, the insect under consideration has been somewhat difficult 

 to place. It is without question a new species, and though having the 

 general aspect of Eupithecia, nevertheless, upon close study of its 

 structure, has affinities nearer to Acidalia; but it can not be placed in 

 either of tliese genera nor in any other of the Phaljenid genera charac- 

 terized in Packard's Monograph or known to occur in America. In fact 

 it hardly fits into any of the subfamily definitions, and will, perhaps, 

 some day be included in a separate subfamily, but for the present it may 

 be placed iu the Acidalinae. It is characterized below: 



CARPHOXEUA geu. UOV. 



Having most of the characters of the subfamily Acidalintp, as defined by Packard, 

 except in the primaries being snbfalcate, and the first subcostal venule (vein 11) short 

 and not originating at the subcostal cell, but some distance beyond it. Agrees with. 



Acidalia in having the head 

 short, the front being some- 

 what sunken l)etween the large 

 globose eyes, the antennte be- 

 ing simple or nearly so in both 

 sexes, the pectinations being 

 but slight, and in the short, 

 slender palpi barely projecting 

 beyond the front. Differs from 

 Acidalia in the longer, nar- 

 rower primaries; iu the sub- 

 costal cell being elongate or 

 rhomboidal; in the first sub- 

 costal venule (vein 11) being 

 short, not much longer than 

 the second and originating be- 

 yond the apex of the sub- 



FlG. U. — Carphoxeraptclearia: outline of -wings, showing 

 venation. Enlarged. (Original.) 



costal cell. The fifth subcostal venule (vein 7) branches from vein 8 at a point be- 

 tween the first and second subcostal venules. Legs slender and elongate, the hind 

 tibiic not thickened, spurred; tarsi as long as or longer than the tibine. 



CAUPnoxEK.\ PTELEARiA u. sp. Immjo.— 9 ; average length, 4 to 5 millimetres; alar 

 expanse, 12 to 14 millimetres. Bead, including eyes, dark brown except a large trans- 

 verse oval spot on the vertex, including the base of the antenn:©, which is i)ale 

 luteous; palpi, dark brown; antenusB, luteous above and behind, darker beneath; 

 where they are faintly serrate. Thorax and aMomen pale luteous, flecked with 

 brown; legs slightly more dusky; wings sparsely scaled. 



Primaries grayish-yellow inclining to saffron, with the ordinary discal patch and 

 five more or less distinct obliquely-transverse bauds, as follows: one rather broad, 

 and across basal one-fourth of the wings, arched posteriorly near costa, and thence 

 obliquing basally to inner border, along which it extends to inner angle; a second 

 of same width, obliquing more directly from middle of costa to middle of inner 



