.1881.] ON NORTH-AMERICAN TINEIDJ5. 301 



4, On some North-American Tineid?e. By Thomas, Lord 

 Walsingham, F.Z.S. 



[ReceiTed February 15, 1881.] 



(Plates XXXV., XXXVI.) 



In a paper published last year in the Proceedings of this Society, 

 I endeavoured to contribute a few observations upon synonymy, 

 calculated to afford some assistance towards a revision of the 

 North-American Tineidee. I now propose to describe a few more 

 new species from that country, and to direct attention to the 

 synonymy of some others of the genera to which they belong. Of 

 the teii genera noticed in this paper, four only have at present been 

 recognized by American authors. The claims of one other to a foot- 

 ing in the New World have hitherto rested upon Mr. Walker's record 

 of a single specimen not now to be found in the British Museum. 

 Two European genera are now, for the first time, mentioned as 

 occurring there, unless one of these has possibly been recharacterized 

 in America under another name; and three, "so far as I am able 

 to determine, are new. Some species known in Europe are also now 

 recorded from California and Oregon. 



Phryganeopsis, gen. nov. 



Caput Mrsutum; antennce pubescentes ; haustellum mediocre; palpi 

 maxillares plicati ; palpi labiales capite ter longiores, porrecti, 

 supra et infra hirsute pilosi. Alee anticcB a basi dilatatcB, casta 

 subarcuata, apice depresso ; margo apicalis obliquus. Alee posticce 

 latce. Abdomen anguste compressum. Tibice hirsute piloses, 

 aliquot t?icrassatce. 

 Head rough ; antennae indented at the joints, pubescent in both 

 sexes, more strongly in the male ; ocelli none ; tongue of medium 

 length, slightly scaled ; maxillary palpi folded. Labial palpi pro- 

 jecting, three times the length of the head, slightly drooping ; the 

 second joint scarcely thickened beyond the middle, the apical joint 

 rather more than half the length of the second, roughly clothed to 

 the points with coarse hair-like scales. 



(S . Fore wings rather broad, the costa slightly arched, depressed 

 towards the apex(broader and subfalcate in the female) ; apical margin 

 oblique. Hind wings broad, not perceptibly indented below the apex ; 

 fringes long. Abdomen laterally compressed, projecting considerably 

 beyond the hind wings. Tibiee roughly hairy, somewhat thickened. 

 This somewhat aberrant form should probably be placed some- 

 where near the genus Incurvaria. It differs very considerably in the 

 form of the palpi, but approaches that genus in the neuration and 

 in the form of the abdomen, as also somewhat in general appearance. 

 I have failed to find, in the writings of either Mr. Clemens or Mr. 

 Chambers, any generic description which would rightly apply to its 

 peculiar structure and appearance ; nor is there any European form 

 which corresponds to it. 



