DESCRIPTIONS OF TINEOID MOTHS (MICROLEPIDOPTERA) 

 FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



By August Busck, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The U. S. National Museum is indebted to Mr. William Schaus for 

 the material on which the following paper is based, as well as for the 

 bulk of the Central and South American material of tineoid moths it 

 possesses, which is considerable. 



In the working up of this material the writer has carefully avoided 

 any interference with Lord Walsingham's part of the Biologia 

 Centrali- Americana, which is now in press or partly issued, and with 

 the material for which the writer is thoroughly familiar. For this 

 reason very many new species and genera from South America, now 

 contained in the National Museum, were passed by and these remain 

 to be described when the genera shall have been established by the 

 publication of the Biologia. 



In the identification of the forms already described from South 

 America, Zeller's careful descriptions usually suffice to establish the 

 identity of the species ; Felder's species also may be recognized with 

 reasonable certainty from his colored figures. Walker's numerous 

 descriptions, on the other hand, are as a rule quite inadequate for 

 recognition, but the writer has had the opportunity to study his 

 types in the British Museum, and the National Museum has obtained 

 carefully colored figures of these types, which proved a valuable aid 

 in their identification. 



Family GELECHIID^. 



PLEUROTA LITERATELLA, new species. 



Plate 8, fig. 12. 



Labial palpi very long, typically Pleurota-formed, brown with 

 whitish base. Face and tongue whitish. Head and thorax light 

 brown. Forewings long, narrow, pointed, spear-shaped, light brown; 

 dorsal half somewhat lighter and more yellowish than costal half 

 and separated from it by an indistinct longitudinal streak of darker 



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