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



men, determined by Professor Fernald and also fine specimens, collected 

 by Mr. E. A. Schwarz. 

 Habitat : Texas. 



Blastobasis Zeller. 



As remarked by Lord Walsingham (Proc. Zoo. Soc. Lond., 91, 

 1897) the species placed in this genus in American lists do not con- 

 form with the type species {phycidella Zeller) in neuration. 



There is one exception to this, namely sciaphiella Zeller, which 

 together with Blastobasis gtti/andi/ia: Busck (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu- 

 seum, XXXIII, 234, Plate I, Fig. 9, 1900), are the species at present 

 described from this continent, which properly belong in Blastobasis. 



I have, however, other bred species of Blastobasis ; but as Lord 

 Walsingham has a monograph of this group nearly ready, I shall 

 not at present describe them. Until this monograph appears, the 

 other supposed species of Blastobasis may temporarily be placed in 

 Clemens' s genus Holcocera, to which most of the species truly belong. 



To the latter genus should also be transferred the " fringed-wing 

 applebud moth," Nothris ? mali;^ei>iiiiella Murtfeldt (Mo. Agr. Exp. 

 Sta. Bull., No. 42, 1898) a type of which (No. 4017), received from 

 Mr. J. M. Stedman, is in the National Museum. It is possible that 

 this on further study will be found synonymous with one of the pre- 

 viously described species. Fig. 5 on Plate XII is a delineation of the 

 venation of this species made from the type. 



Martyringa, gen nov. (Yponomeutidse. ) (Plate XII, Fig. 6.) 



Type : iE^oconia latipennis ^Valsingham. 



Antennae stout, compressed, with the lower edge serrate. Labial palpi long, re- 

 curved ; second joint slightly thickened and slightly rough beneath ; terminal joint as 

 long as second, slender pointed. Maxillary palpi small, porrected. Tongue well de- 

 veloped, scaled in its entire length. Face, head and thorax smooth. Fore wings 

 elongated, more than three times as long as broad, apex rounded ; II veins, 2 and 3 

 stalked, 5 absent, 8 and 9 out of 7 to termen just below apex. Hind wings as broad 

 as fore wings, 7 veins; 4 absent, 3 and 5 connate, 6 and 7 parallel. Posterior tibiae 

 smooth. 



This striking venation alone easily separates this genus from any 

 described /American one and I am unable to find any exotic genus 

 like it. Among the American genera it comes nearest, though not 

 very near, Yponomeuta Latreille. 



Martyringa latipennis Walsingham. 



(7£gocoiiia latipciniis Walsingham, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. Phila. , X, 190, 

 1S82 ; Rii.KY, Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5578, 1891. 



