722 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. ' vol. xxx. 



ATTEVA PUNCTELLA (Cramer and Stall). 

 Atteva aurea Fitch, Dyar, Cat. N. Am. Lep., No. 5481. 



Two specimens. This species, which is not found around Washing- 

 ton Citj", occurred commonly near St. Louis, Missouri, during the 

 summer and autumn of 1904, where I secured a large series at light. 



Recent studies of West Indian and South American material enable 

 me to correct the following names used in Doctor Dyar's list: 



Aiirea Fitch is undoubtedl}' a synonym of the earlier name pimcteUa 

 Cramer and Stoll, and that species extends from the middle of North 

 America through Central America and the West Indies down to Brazil 

 and Argentina. Specimens from Trinidad, French Guiana, and Ven- 

 ezuela in the U. S. National Museum are not distinguishable from the 

 Missouri specimens. 



The name gemmata Grote has been wrongh' used for the Florida 

 species and belongs to the species, peculiar to Cuba, subsequenth' well 

 described and figured by Zeller as fastuosa, which is characterized by 

 the thin, wavy, white lines in the dominating dark, metallic, blue spots. 

 Our very distinct brilliant, orange-red Florida species must be known 

 under the name fioridana Neumogen. 



PLUTELLA MACULIPENNIS (Curtis). 

 PhiteUd iiiaruUpenuls Curtis, Dj'ar, Cat. N. Am. Lep., No. 5503. 

 Four specimens. 



Family GELECHIID.E. 



PALTODORA SIMILIELLA (Chambers). 

 Paltodora sbniliella Chambers, Dyar, Cat. N. Am. Lep., No. 5548. 



Five specimens. These are the first specimens I have seen outside 

 of Chambers's and Zeller's types and the few other authentic specimens 

 considered in my Revision of American Gelechiidpe.'* 



SITOTROGA CEREALELLA (Olivier). 



Sitofroga cerealella Oi.iviek, Dyar, Cat N. Am. Lep., No. 5552. 

 Two specimens. 



TELPHUSA ACACIELLA, new species. 



Antennct' blackish with narrow silvery white annulations; labial palpi 

 ochreous with a ros}' tint, second joint barred with black, terminal 

 joint with two black annulations, one near the base, the other just before 

 the tip, which is light. Face and head ochreous, strongly mottled 

 with, dark purple. Thorax dark purple. P^orewing dark purple, 



«Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 779. 



