202 PRO f'FEDINaS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxm. 



VALENTINIA FRACTILINEA Zeller. 



Blaslobasis Jmciilincu Z?:ller, Verli. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XXIII, 1873, p. 298, 



pi. IV, figs. 37 a-h. 

 Holcocera fractilinea Dyar, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 52, 1902, p. 529, No. 5984. 



Type. — Male, No. 101612, Mus. Walsingham; paratype, male, No. 

 101613, Mus. Walsingham. 



Habitat. — Bosque County, Texas, August 1-19 (Belfrage, collector). 



VALENTINIA NOTHROTES, new species. 



Antennse pale slaty brownish. 



Palpi grayish brown, with whitish sprinkling. 



Head and thorax whitish, with grayish fuscous speckling, especially 

 in a band across the front of the thorax and another across the pos- 

 terior half of the tegulae. 



Forewings dirty white, profusely sprinkled with grayish fuscous, of 

 which a transverse fascia crosses the wing at one-third ; this is slightly 

 angulated outward in the middle, and partially diffused outward at 

 the middle and about the costa; at the end of the cell a somewhat 

 less defined, straight, transverse fascia occurs, absorbing the two 

 spots which would otherwise appear at the end of the cell, corre- 

 sponding to a small discal spot at about the middle of the wing; the 

 apical area is thickly bestrewn and mottled with gTayish fuscous; 

 cilia brownish gray, sprinkled with whitish and grayish fuscous 

 atoms. 



Alar expanse. — 12 mm. 



Hindwings brownish gra}^; cilia slightly paler. 



Abdomen slaty gray, anal tuft paler. 



Legs pale brownish gray. 



Type. — Male, No. 35536, Mus. Walsingham. 



Habitat. — Arizona, 1883 (Morrison, collector). Unique. 



A small and narrow-winged species, somewhat similar in markings 

 to retectella Zeller, with which it agrees in having a strong notch and 

 pecten on the antennse, and 4 and 5 of the hindwings stalked, but is 

 quite distinct in size and shape. 



Genus BLASTOBASIS Zeller. 

 BLASTOBASIS(?) CITRICOLELLA Chambers. 



Blastobasis citricolella Chambers, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agric, for 1879, 1880, p. 207.— 

 CoMSTOCK, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., for 1879, 1880, pp. 206-7.— Hy. Edwards, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 35, 1889, p. 125.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. 

 Am., 1891, p. 104, No. 5561. 



Blastobasis citriella Chambers, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., for 1879, 1880, p. 245. 



