262 WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



2. GELECHIA Hiibner 



(Cirrha Chambers; (Eseis Chambers; Pseudochelaria Walsingham; 

 Telcia Heinemann; Lit a Treitschke) 



Palpi with second joint rou gh- scaled ; most often with a divided brush or tuft 

 which is sometimes very large; third smooth, more slender than in Gnorimoschema. 

 Fore wing (fig. 155) normal, oblong or pointed, variable in breadth; M 3 and Cu, 

 sometimes stalked in G. bosquclla; hind wing never much narrower and usually 

 rather broader than fore wing, typically trapezoidal, strongly sinuate below apex 

 in subgenus Lita; R and M t sometimes stalked, M 3 and CUj connate or short- 

 stalked; M 2 approximate to M 3 . 



(Eseis Chambers includes the species with very heavy palpal tuft; Teleia those 

 without ocelli, and otherwise normal. This is a somewhat heterogeneous genus, 

 which should be subdivided. It includes forms transitional to several other 

 genera, notably Anacampsis, Gnorimoschema (or rather, the primitive aberrant 

 Gnorimoschemas which are themselves transitional to Phthorimcea) Telphusa, and 

 Duvita. 



Key to the species 

 1. Ground color black (or dark brown or gray, with contrasting pale markings). 



2. Inner margin yellow to rust red 10. bosquella. 



2. With white or whitish markings only. 

 3. Head pure white. 



4. White markings diffuse 7. continuella. 



4. White markings clean-cut. 



5. Two white f ascise and a triangular spot between them .... 9. viduella. 



5. One incomplete fascia and several spots .1. cercerisella. 



3. Head more or less mottled or dark. 



4. A white oblique streak or fascia from costa a third way out. 

 5. A fascia also at two-thirds way out. 



6. A triangular white spot at middle of costa 9. viduella,. 



6. No spot at middle of costa 8. lugubrella. 



5. No fascia two-thirds way out 2. coloradensis. 



4. No such streak. 



5. An angulate white fascia at apical third 6. Itimaculella,. 



5. No such fascia. 



6. A white posterior spot on thorax 3. argentipunctella. 



6. No white spot on thorax. 



7. Second segment of palpus white or yellow. 



8. Ordinary spots white 4. trialbamaculella. 



8. Ordinary spots black, hardly visible 4%. psiloptem. 



7. Second segment of palpus dark 5. confusella. 



1. Ground color not black or blackish with pale markings. 

 2. A contrasting brown-black bar or patch at basal angle. 



3. An oblique light bar a third way out; patch larger 30. walsinghami. 



3. No such bar; patch smaller 31. pennsylvanica. 



2. No black patch at basal angle. 



3. A black or contrastingly dark oblique bar running to costa near base; 



the ground before it pale fuscous, luteous, or cream white. 

 4. Bar diffuse on outer side ; no decided outer fascia .... 29 mediofuscella. 

 4. Bar sharply defined on outer side; a similar black postmedial fascia. 

 5. Outer margin heavily edged with powdery black; the orbicular a 

 black point, well separated from the outer fascia . . 28. pseudofondella. 

 5. Outer margin without definite black border; orbicular large and fused 

 with outer fascia, or at least with renif orm 27. fondella. 



