90 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



This genus and the species on which I have founded it approaches Trypauisjiia 

 Clemens, Gelechia difficilisclla and more remotely Agnippe and Evippe. Wings hori- 

 zontal in repose, primaries lanceolate ; the costal attains the margin before the middle ; 

 the subcostal sends to the costal margin two branches before the end of the cell, one 

 from the end, another behind it and becomes iurcate before the tip, delivering a 

 branch to each margin. Cell narrow, closed by a short oblique and faint discal vein. 

 The median sends a branch to the dorsal margin and becomes furcate behind it. .Sub- 

 median furcate at base. Secondaries narrower than the primaries, apex long and 

 sharply pointed with the posterior margin suddenly and deeply incised beneath it and 

 the anal angle rounded ; costa eniarginate from, the middle to the apex. The costal 

 vein attains the margin about the middle. Subcostal straight, attaining the margin 

 just before the tip. Median dividing into three branches. Cell unclosed. *** Tongue 

 scaled, longer than the anterior coxce. Maxillary palpi small, but distinct under the 

 lens ; labial palpi long, slender, overarching the vertex, with the third joint almost 

 acicular and longer than the two others united ; the second joint is laterally slightly 

 compressed and slightly thickened towards its apex. Antennce simple, about two 

 thirds as long as the wings. Head and face smooth. Vertex short and face scarcely 

 retreating." 



This characterization would necessarily, as Chambers says, make 

 Helice a Gelechiid genus. 



Several times later Chambers compared Helice with the narrow- 

 winged Gelechiid genera Trypauisma Clemens, Evippe Chambers and 

 Agnippe Chambers, and in one place (Can. Ent., V, 230) he empha- 

 sized the family character in separating it from Eidotlica Chambers, 

 stating that "the hind wing is even more excised beneath the tip " 

 than in that genus. Again (Can. Ent., VII, 106) he says: 



" Since and Ilclice and Agnippe resemble Laverita in having raised tufts of scales 

 on their wings" and (Can. Ent., IX, 231-232).* "This species {Helice pallido- 

 ihrel/a) will be considered — and is — a Gelechia in the wide sense — the sense in which 

 it is a convenient receptacle for every species that cannot be better disposed of. And 

 as I had previously described a very different species as G. pallidochrella.^ I suggest 

 for this species the specific x\?cn-\& gleiUtschi(cl!a.'''\ 



Thus, far in the definition and comprehension of this genus, Cham- 

 bers was not only right, but unusually clear and full in his character- 

 ization. 



*This reference was evidently overlooked by Lord Walsingham when he wrote 

 his article in 1882. (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, pp. 188-189.) 



I This species, described as Depressaria pallidochrella (Can. Ent., IV, 126) and 

 mentioned (1. c, 129 and 147; Bull. Geo. Surv., IV, 138 ; Smith's List Lep. Bor. 

 Amer., No. 5272) is an entirely different thing and belongs in the germs Gnorimo- 

 schema Busck. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902.) 



X This change of name is inadmissible when Helice is retained as a good genus 

 and the type must be known under the original r\a.m& pal/idoc/n-el/a. 



