94 Journal New York Entomological Societv. [Voi. x. 



dusted with dark scales. Hind wings shining, dark fuscous ; cilia a shade lighter. 

 Legs silvery, strongly shaded on the outside with dark purple. Alar expanse lo mm.* 



Habitat : Kentucky. Collector, V. T. Chambers. United States 

 National Museum type No. 454, formerly supposed to be the type of 

 /Helice pallidochrella. 



Eumeyrickia, gen. nov. (CEcophoridae.) (PI. XII, Fig. 3). 



Type : Chatochihis trimaculellus Fitch. 



Antennae a little more than half as long as fore wings, evenly ciliated, l, through- 

 out except the basal joint, which is long and smooth, without pecten. Labial palpi 

 as in the genus Ypsoloplnis, second joint with a long dense projecting pointed tuft be- 

 neath, terminal joint erect, slender, pointed, markedly longer than second joint. 

 Head somewhat loosely scaled. Fore wings three times as long as broad, apex pointed, 

 termen oblique ; 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen just below apex, 2 from before 

 angle of cell. Hind wings ovate, nearly I ; venation typically necophorid, 8 veins: 

 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 parallel. Hind tibins rough haired. Both males and females 

 winged ; female with protruding horny ovipositor. 



This interesting genus is named in honor of Dr. Edward Meyrick, 

 of England, the authority on the (Elcophoridai, who has most liberally 

 extended his help to the author through a long series of highly prized 

 letters. 



I sent him a specimen and delineation of the present species, ask- 

 ing him whether it might be placed in any of his numerous Austra- 

 lian cecophorid genera. In his answer he says : 



" I have no hesitation in regarding this as a new genus of < Ecophoridte. It is 

 allied, I think, generally to the Pleurota group and in my tabulation would come 

 near Atheropla, but I think it not really very near to any genus that I know ; from 

 those with mo-t similar characters it differs by the absence of antennal pecten and also 

 particularly by the terminal joint of palpi being longer than the second, which is quite 

 exceptional in tlie ( Ecophoridre." 



Eumeyrickia trimaculella Fife]!. 



Ch^thochilus triinacuUlla FrrcH, Rep. Nox. Ins., II, 233, 1S56. 



Ypsotop/ius triviactilellus Chambers, Bull. Geo. Surv., IV, 167, 1S78 ; Riley, 

 Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5532, 1891. 



Annrsia ? a/bapulvil/a Ch.\UK-£.k^, Can. Ent., VII, 147, 1875. 



Chimahache ? haustellat i VValsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 173, 

 1882 ; Riley, Smith List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5209, 1891. 



Fortunately I have been able to study the types of all three 

 authors. Fitch's type in good condition and with his own large label 

 attached is in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. Cham- 



* Helice pallidochrella is .slightly larger, 10.5-II mm; Chambers' measure,^ 

 inch, is too small. 



