CHAMBERS ON NEW TINEINA. 97 



TISCHERIA. 



T. QUERCIVORELLA, Cham. Cin. Quar. Jour. Sci. ii. 109. 

 ? T. quercitella, Frey, ncc T. quercitella, Clem. 



I have not seen the specimens from which Frey described his species 

 nor the single imperfect one from which Clemens prepared his descrip- 

 tion. Frey thought his specimens belonged to Clemens's species ; but 

 Frey's description applies sufficiently well to the four ^ and two 9 before 

 me, and which I cannot reconcile with Clemens's account of his species. 

 In quercivorella, the face, palpi, and antennae are very pale lemon-yellow, 

 the vertex being darker — as dark as the fore wings. Clemens says of 

 quercitella, "antennae, head, labial palpi, dark orange-yellow". In quer- 

 civorella, the thorax and fore wings are lemon-yellow, with the costal 

 margin more reddish, and becoming more so toward the apex, which is 

 reddish-orange and somewhat dusted with darker scales. Clemens says 

 of quercitella, " fore wings orange-yellow ; apical portion reddish-brown, 

 dusted with dark brown", and does not mention the reddish-orange hue 

 of the costal margin. In quercivorella (both sexes), the dorso apical 

 cilia are paler than those of the apex, which, like those of the hind 

 wings, and the entire hind wings themselves, except a fuscous patch at 

 the base, are pale silvery-yellow ; this fuscous patch and a similar one 

 on the under side of the fore wings are peculiar to the male. In querci- 

 tella, Clemens says the hind wings are " pale yellowish, becoming reddish- 

 brown toward the apex, and the apical cilia dark brownish". This does 

 not apply to quercivorella at all. I have quoted the whole of Dr. Clem- 

 ens's brief description. 



In quercivorella, the under side of the wings is paler than the upper, 

 and does not become darker toward the apex, but has the costal mar- 

 gin stained with fuscous on the fore wings. The thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs are pale yellow, as also is the anal tuft ; the front surface of the 

 legs and the under side of the abdomen dusted with fuscous. Alar ex- 

 pansion scant three-eighths of an inch. Kentucky and Texas. 



T. PRUINOSEELLA, Cham. 



I have received slightly injured specimens from Texas which I refer 

 to this species, which is heretofore recorded only from Kentucky. 



T. LATIPENELLA, n. sp. 



A single specimen (c?) received from Texas is pale yellow or lutens, 

 becoming more orange toward the tip of the fore wings; the hind wings 

 are paler than the fore wings and thorax, being, in fact, nearly white. 

 There is a small fuscous patch on the under side of the fore wings; none 

 on the hind wings. It is a little paler in color than T. quercivorella 

 Cham., which it resembles in many respects, especially in size. But 

 the striking peculiarity about it, that which gives it its distinctive 

 character, is the extraordinary width and form of the hind wings. 

 These, instead of being linear-lanceolate, and sharply pointed at the 

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