TEX AX TIXEID MOTHS— BUSCK. 



725 



Fici. 3.— Venation ok Evippe pollostella 



ARISTOTELIA RUBIDELLA (Clemens). 

 Ainstote/ia ruhuh'JId ('i-e.men8, Dyar Cat. N. Am. Lep., No. 5578. 

 Five specimen.s. 



EVIPPE POLLOSTELLA, new species. 



Antennae light fuscous with narrow black annulations. Labial palpi 

 silvery white, second joint with tive black bars on the exterior side, 

 terminal joint with tip and an annulation around the middle black. 

 Face and head iridescent white, some- 

 what sprinkled with dark fuscous 

 scales. Thorax ochreous fuscous. 

 Forewings with ochreous white 

 ground color heavily overlaid with 

 dark fuscous scales, which in some 

 places agg-regate into blackish spots 

 irregularly sprinkled over the wing. 

 Cilia ochreous. Hindwings dark fuscous with ochreous cilia. Abdo- 

 men blackish, each joint tipped with silvery scales. Legs ochreous 

 white, silvery; tarsi with black annulations. 



Alcor expan><e. — 5.5-6 mm. 



i?aZ»?';^a?!.— Brownsville, Texas (Barber). 



Type.—C2it. No. 9768, U.S.N.M. 



This is the minutest Gelechiid I have met with and by its size alone 

 easily separated from any described American species. Due to this 

 extreme small size veins 4 and 5 in the forewings, which in the other 

 species of the genus are connate or stalked, are in this species united 

 altogether making the wing thus have only 11 veins. All the other 

 points of generic value agree closely with the other species, and I have 

 no hesitation about referring it to the present genus, the venation of 

 which should therefore be corrected to: Veins 4 and 5 connate, stalked 

 07' united. 



RECURVARIA ELACHISTELLA, new species. 



Antennae ochreous, with narrow black annulations. Labial palpi 

 whitish ochreous, second joint somewhat mottled with black exte- 

 riorly, terminal joint with a black annulation around the middle and 

 one just l)efore the tip. Face silver}^ white. Head and thorax ochre- 

 ous. Forewings light silvery ochreous, somewhat darker along the 

 costal edge and toward apex. There are six small dots of blackish 

 raised scales in two longitudinal rows, the upper through the middle 

 of the wing, the undei- on the fold. Hindwings light fuscous, cilia 

 ochreous. Abdomen light ochreous. Legs whitish ochreous, hind 

 tibia? mottled with black exteriorly; tarsi unmarked. 



Alar expanse. — 7-8 mm. 



