NEW AMERICAN TINEID JrOTHS—WALSINGHAM. 203 



Antennse with strong flattened tuft beneath basal joint (not a 

 bristly pecten, but closely packed curved scales as in Auxirnohasis) ; 

 whitish cinereous. 



Palpi slightly recurved, divergent, reaching well beyond the head; 

 terminal joint more than two-thirds the length of median; whitisli, 

 speclded with fawn brown. 



Head smooth; white, slightly sprinlded with brownish gray. 



Thorax brownish gray above, tegul?p whitish, sprinkled with 

 brownish gray. 



Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked; white, suffused and 

 sprinkled with brownish fuscous intermixed with pale fawn brown; 

 the markings, so far as the darker shading of these colors indicates 

 them, tend to be longitudinal and consist of a strong line along the 

 fold from near the base, almost joining a spot in the fold above the 

 middle of the dorsum, below the fold the base is suffused; a shorter 

 line on the disc, above the fold, runs parallel to the upper half of 

 the plical line, and above it, below the costa, as well as beyond it on 

 the outer half of the disc are sundry mottlings of the same mixed 

 color; two spots, obscurely indicated at the upper and lower angles 

 of the cell, the lower one a little beyond the upper; an ill-defined 

 obilque streak at four-fifths precedes a broken antemarginal shade, 

 which, leaving the costa at the commencement of the cilia, strikes 

 outward to the apex and reverts at an angle along the termen, the 

 dorsal space behind its lower extremity being much shaded; cilia 

 whitish, much speckled and shaded with pale brownish fuscous, 

 which has a tendency to form slender parallel lines through them, 

 but fading out towards the tornus. 



Alar expanse. — 19 mm. 



Hindwings (detached) 7 veins, .3 and 4 coincident; 5 closely approx- 

 imated to (3+4) at origin, 6 and 7 parallel; shining, pale-brownish 

 gray ; cilia dull-brownish gray. 



Legs (missing). 



r?/2JP.— Female, Cat. No. 3774 U.S.N.M.; Walsingham determined, 

 No. 3688, 1898. 



Habitat. — Jacksonville, Florida. Larva in dry orange infested by 

 beetle {Arseocerus fasciculatus) ; issued, March 17, 1880. Uniciue. 



The type, a female, consists of thorax and head, left forewing 

 (torn), right hindwing (broken), and left antenna. The palpi are 

 broken and the abdomen is missing as also the right forewing and 

 left hindwing. It is probably a Blastobasis Zeller, but this can not 

 be decided from a female. 



This species is omitted from Dyar's List of North American Lepi- 

 doptera. 



