DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW NORTH AMERICAN TINEID 

 MOTHS, WITH A GENERIC TABLE OF THE FAMILY 

 BLASTOBASID.E. 



By Lord Walsingham, 



Merton Hall, Thelford. EiKjland. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Several papers were published under the title "Steps Toward a 

 Revision of Chambers Index; With Notes and Descriptions of New 

 Species" in Insect Life," a journal published by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture from 1888 to 1895. The object was the gradual 

 improvement of the catalogue of North American Tineid moths by 

 the publication of descriptions of new species and corrections of 

 the generic locations of old ones. The standard catalogue of North 

 American Tineida? at the time these papers were begun was pub- 

 lished by V. T. Chambers under the title ''Index to the Described 

 Tineina of the United States and Canada" in the Bulletin of V. S. 

 Geological and Geographical Survey, IV, No. 1, 1878. During the 

 sixteen years that have elapsed since the last installment of these 

 papers was printed, the journal Insect Life has been suspended, 

 but the series is herewith continued under a more explanatory title. 



The material on which these descriptions are based was in part 

 received by the U. S. National Museum from the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture through the late Dr. C. V. Riley, and in part is con- 

 tained in the author's collection. Types of the new species are in 

 the collection of the U. S. National Museum in most cases, as indi- 

 cated by the type numbers, some from the museum material and 

 some donated by the author. 



Family GELECHIAD^. 



GELECHIA LAUDATELLA, new species. 



Antennse white, annulated with brownish fuscous, the basal joint 

 having a wider white ring than those beyond it. 



Palpi white, both joints brownish fuscous at the base, terminal 

 joint tipped with brownish fuscous. 



"The last paper of this series appeared in Insect Life, III, 1891, p. 389. 



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