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BLASTOBASIS?, new species. 



Blasiobasis, new species [Riley and Howard], U. S. Dept. Agr. Ent. Bull.. Ins. 

 Life, IV (1892), p. 290. 



Habitat. — Australia. Larva on CJiionasjns on oranoe (sent to 

 Washington by Koebele). 



BLASTOBASIS COCCIVORELLA Chambers. 



Blasiobasis coccivorella Chambers, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., fur 1879, 1880, pp. 207, 

 245.— CoMSTOCK, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., for 1879, 1880, p. 244.— Packard, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Intr. Ent. Comin. Bull., No. 7, 1881, p. 54.— Douglass, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., XXIV, 1888, p. 228.— Hy. Edwards, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 35, 1889, p. 125.— Packard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Rept. Ent. Comm., V, 

 1890, p. 219.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, p. 104, No. 5562. 



Type. — A female. 



Habitat. — Cedar Keys, Florida. Larva in Coccid-scales on oak 

 {Kermes, species, near pallidus Reaumur). Collected in March ; issued 

 between April 1-10. This species is omitted from Dyar's List. If the 

 type is still extant '^ there should be no difficulty in placing it in 

 its proper genus. Chambers's reference to the neuration is doubtless 

 incorrect. 



Genus HOLCOCERA Clemens. 

 HOLCOCERA NIGROSTRIATA, new species. 



Antennse yellowish; basal joint considerably widened, with strong 

 pecten, dirty whitish. 



Palpi white, sprinkled with blackish scales, very densely on the 

 outer sides. 



Head and thorax white, sprinkled with blackish scales. 



Forewings white, much sprinkled and striated with blackish scales; 

 an elongate patch of these scales extends from the base along the 

 fold to about one-sixth, and is diffused downward to the flexus; a 

 narrower streak from the base near the costa extends to a little 

 beyond one-third, running parallel with the costa, but not touching 

 it ; beyond this, and a little further removed from the costa, a shorter 

 but darker streak follows the upper edge of the cell to its outer extrem- 

 ity; two other streaks, commencing rather nearer to the base, are 

 situated on the cell and on the fold, respectively, while there is an 

 indication of two dark dots at the end of the cell, scarcely more 

 conspicuous than the blackish dusting which is generally distributed 

 around them, and especially along the margins to the apex; cilia 

 pale yellowish brown, speckled with white and fuscous. 



Alar expanse. — 13 mm. 



a The type is lost. — Harrison G. Dyar. 



