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thoroughly the allied species are made known, the more completely will 
the supposed distinction vanish. 
ADRASTEIA, gem. 70Y. 
The two following species resemble each other very closely, not only 
structurally, but in ornamentation. They are closely allied to Gelechia, 
or rather to some species of that genus. The second joint of the palpi is 
clothed beneath with a dense sfreading, but scarcely divided, brush ; the 
basal joint of the palpi is distinctly clavate, and the wings have distinct 
though small tufts of raised scales, and rows of separate raised scales not 
in tufts. Having but a single specimen of each species, I have not 
denuded the wings to examine the neuration. It, however, can be seen 
to approach closely that of Ge/echia, if it is not identical with it. In all 
other respects the genus agrees with Gelechia. 
A. Alexandriacella. N. sp. 
Head and second joint of the palpi grayish-white flecked with dark 
brown; third joint dark brown, with the tip and an annulus about the 
middle, white. Antenne dark brown, faintly annulate with white ; thorax, 
to the naked eye, gray; under the lens, white, flecked densely with dark 
brown, and with a minute ochreous or yellowish-white tuft on each side 
at the tip ; anterior wings to the naked eye gray, mottled with dark brown 
spots and with a few small white spots; under the lens they appear dark 
_ brown, largely intermingled with grayish-white, and the white spots are 
seen to be four minute tufts of raised scales placed - : + An irregular 
white fascia, angulated in the middle towards the apex, crosses the wing 
at the beginning of the ciliz. To the naked eye, this fascia appears as 
two small white streaks, one at the beginning of the costal, and the other 
of the dorsal ciliæ. Apex dark brown, with a row of small white spots 
around the base of the ciliae; ciliae pale luteous, dusted with dark 
brown. Posterior wings pale fuscous ; abdomen pale fuscous, somewhat 
iridescent. Alar ex. 56 inch. Captured at Alexandria, Kentucky, in 
June. 
A. fasciella. N. sp. 
Head yellowish-white, dusted with dark brown ; antennæ dark brown ; 
first and second joints of the palpi dusted with dark brown, third joint 
dark brown, scarcely flecked with white, and white at the tip; thorax and 
anterior wings pale gray mottled with small dark brown spots, one of 
which is just within the dorsal margin near the base, another behind the 
