240 PAPERS BY DR. B. CLEMENS. 



I have a few specimens of Labradorian moths that I will 

 not venture to describe, in consequence of their denudation 

 and mutilated condition. Doubtless some of the specimens 

 I have named and described in this paper may belong to the 

 Fauna of Northern Europe, a fact which the want of good 

 descriptive works has made it impossible for me to deter- 

 mine. 



TINEINA OF THE UNITED STATES. 



WALSHIA, new gen. 



This genus is apparently related to the genera Laverna 

 and Chrysoclista and partakes of the character of each of 

 them.* 



Hind-wings with long cilia, rather long, narrow and lanceo- 

 late. The costa is somewhat dilated near the basal third, 

 and slightly excised about the middle. Inner margin rounded 

 from the base of the wing to the tip. The submedian and 

 internal veins are obsolete, the former is replaced by a sub- 

 median fold. The costal vein is simple. Subcostal vein 

 attenuated towards the base ; it appears to be simple, but is 

 really bifid, the point of bifurcation being invisible except by 

 transmitted light under a lens ; the lower branch is continued 

 through the disk as a false nervule. The disk is closed, 

 becoming narrower behind or exteriorly. The median vein 

 is very distinct and 4-branched, the three posterior branches 

 being equidistant. 



Fore-wings with large thick tufts of scales ; the tips of the 

 wings are bent or turned under, when closed, lanceolate and 

 pointed. The disk is narrow. The subcostal vein has three 

 marginal branches, the first arising from the middle of the 

 disk ; the apical branch is furcate, and enters the costa before 

 the tip of the wing. Beneath the apical branch are five 

 nervules to the inner margin. 



* The most conspicuous tuft of scales on the anterior wings is placed near 

 the costa, beyond the middle, but the thickened termination of the basal joint 

 of the antennae is the most striking peculiarity. H. T. S. 



