NO. 1567. 



NEW A MERICA N TINEID MO THS— WA LSINGHA M. 227 



and somewhat broken-up along the dorsum, this is joined by a short, 

 straightish band which connects it with the costa at one-third from 

 the apex, and beyond this again is a narrower band preceding the 

 termen, a detached costal spot before it and another almost about 

 the middle of the wing; cilia hoary, much speckled with fuscous; un- 

 derside cinereous, cilia paler. 



Alar expanse. — Male 18 mm.; female 24 mm. 



Hindwings brownish cinereous: cilia with a slight ocherous tinge. 



Abdomen brownish cinereous; anal tuft slightly tinged with ocherous. 



Legs cinereous, with some darker speckling. 



Type.—Msde No. 32547; female No. 5.390 « Mus. Walsingham; para- 

 type female (Walsingham determined. No. 4902, 1906); Cat. No. 

 10358, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat.— Arizoim— (Cox, collect( »r ) ; Texas (' ' Ber. Gerh . " ' ) . Three 



specimens. 



Genus TINEA Linnaeus. 



TINEA SPARSIPUNCTELLA, new species. 



AntenucE blackish, white towards the base. 



Maxillary palpi folded. 



Labial palpi hoary, with a few projecting bristles on the upper side 

 of the median joint. 



Head and thorax hoary white. 



Forewings grayish ^vhite, profusely sprinkled with brownish fus- 

 cous dots, very equally distributed about the wing; these have a 

 tendency to run together into narrow transverse streaks in fine speci- 

 mens, but are apparently very easily obliterated; somewhat morc^ 

 conspicuous than the others are is a line of spots along the costa and 

 around the apex and termen to the tornus; a small patch at the end 

 of the cell, about e(|uidistant from the costa and dorsum, and three 

 or four spots ranged parallel to and beneath the foKl ; cilia white at 

 the base, grayish outwardly, with a darker parting line. 



Alar expanse. — 26 mm. 



« I wrote to Lord Walsingham, calling his attention to the fact that his Pseudu.nj- 

 h'stia angustella had apparently been already descriljed as Dyotopasta yumadla 

 Kearfott. He replied as follows: "Our generic descriptions are at variance— you 

 write -ocelli large,' I write 'ocelli absent;' you write 'tongue and maxillary pnlju 

 obsolete,' I write 'Haustellum long. Maxillary Palpi present.' Mr. Durrant and 

 I have very carefully reexamined my types under the microscope. The male (No. 

 32547) from Arizona (Cox, through Riley, 1886), the head of which, however, is much 

 distorted and possibly injured, has no tongue. The female (No. 5390) Texas (Ber. 

 Gehr.) received from Ragonot, has a long tongue curled round one of the labial palpi 

 and possesses distinct maxillaries." On reexamination I find that there are no 

 ocelli; but all the specimens, both the cotypes returned by Lord Walsingham and 

 others before me, lack tongue and maxillary palpi. Lord Walsingham's name, P>^eii- 

 doxylestia angustella. is therefore retained based on the female type (No. 53f)()) in 

 his possession. — August Busck, 



