NO 1.567. . NEW AMERICAN TINEID MOTHS— WALSINGHAM. 201 



Head and thorax smooth. 



Forewings elongate-lanceolate, with straightened costa and de- 

 pressed apex. 



Neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa; rest separate. 



Hindwings with flexus well developed, cilia 1^. 



Neuration 8 veins; 3 separate, 4 and 5 stalked; 6 and 7 se])arate. 



Abdomen somewhat flattened. 



Legs, hind tibiae hairy above. 



I have named this genus. in honor of my late friend Charles Valen- 

 tine Riley, who described the type. 



VALENTINIA GLANDULELLA Riley. 



Gtiechia glamluldlu Riley, ('an. Ent., Ill, 1871, pp. 118-119. 



Holcocera glandulella Riley, Rept. Inj. Ins. Mo., IV, 1872, pp. 144-145, figs. 



6G a-^f.— Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, No. 5979. 

 Blastobasis nubilella Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., XXIII, 1873, p. 297, 



pi. IV, fig. 36. 

 Holcocera nubilella Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, No. 5980. 

 Holcocera triangularisella Chambers, Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sci., II, 1875, p. 25G; 



Can. Ent., IX, 1877, p. 72.— Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, 



No. 5981. 



Habitat. — Atlantic States; Texas; Kentucky; Massachusetts, Cam- 

 bridge (Zeller Coll., Frey Coll.); North Carolina (Morrison, collector, 

 1883) ; (California, LakeCounty, Blue Lake, June 15. 1871 (Walsingham). 



Chambers "■ regarded nuhilella Zeller, triangidarisella Chambers, and 

 sciapJiilella Zeller as varieties of gladnlella Riley and quotes Riley as 

 having the same opinion. We may therefore accept their opinion 

 that glandulella Jiilej = triangularisella Chambers. Mr. Busck in- 

 forms me that "the unique type 9 of nuhilella Z. in C^ambridge is = 

 glandulella,^^ but that "the unique type $ of sciapltilella , Z. in Cam- 

 bridge is a true Blastobasis, Z. wath seven veins in hindwing only." 

 Chambers's figure of the neuration of glandulella ^ is incorrect. 



VALENTINIA RETECTELLA Zeller. 



Blastobasis retectella Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XXIII, 1873, p. 297.— 

 Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 132.— Riley, Smith's list 

 Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 104, No. 5575. 



Holcocera rectectella Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, No. 5978. 



Tyye. — Female, No. 101611, Mus. Walsingham. 

 Habitat. — Bosque County, Texas, August 29 (Belfrage, collector) . 

 I have a second specimen (female. No. 33097, Mus. Walsingham), 

 also collected by Belfrage, dated September 2, 1876. 



a Can. Ent., IX, 1877, p. 72. 



6 Trans. Cin. Soc. Nat,. His., II, 1880, p. 203, fig. 24. 



