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plants. Myrmicocela ochracella, a European lepidopteron allied to the 
Tineina, is also known to occur in ants’ nests. In most of these cases 
it is probable that the species preferred the dead vegetation to the liv- 
ing, and such we know to be the case with the Pyralid, Asopia costalis, 
the Clover Hay-worm. 
As might have been supposed, from the region of country whence 
it comes, the insect under consideration has been somewhat difficult 
to place. It is without question a new species, and though having the 
general aspect of Eupithecia, nevertheless, upon close study of its 
structure, has affinities nearer to Acidalia; but it can not be placed in 
either of these genera nor in any other of the Phalenid genera charac- 
terized in Packard’s Monograph or known to occur in America.- In fact 
it hardly fits into any of the subfamily definitions, and will, perhaps, 
some day be included ina separate subfamily, but for the present it may 
be placed in the Acidaline. It is characterized below: 
CARPHOXERA gen. noy. 
Having most of the characters of the subfamily Acidaline, as defined by Packard, 
except in the primaries being subfalcate, and the first subcostal venule (vein 11) short 
and not originating at the subcostal cell, but some distance beyond it. Agrees with 
Acidalia in having the head 
short, the front being some- 
what sunken between the large 
globose eyes, the antenne be- 
ing simple or nearly so in both 
sexes, the pectinations being 
but slight, and in the short, 
slender palpi barely projecting 
beyond the front. Differs from 
Acidalia in the longer, nar- 
rower primaries; in the sub- 
costal cell being elongate or 
rhomboidal; in the first sub- 
costal venule (vein 11) being 
short, not much longer than 
the second and originating be- 
yond the apex of the sub- 
costal cell. The fifth subcostal venule (vein 7) branches from vein 8 at a point be- 
tween the first and second subcostal venules. Legs slender and elongate, the hind 
tibiz not thickened, spurred; tarsi as long as or longer than the tibix. 
CARPHOXERA PTELEARIA n. sp. Imago.— @ ; average length, 4 to 5 millimetres, alar 
expanse, 12 to 14 millimetres. Head, including eyes, dark brown except a large trans- 
verse oval spot on the vertex, including the base of the antenne, which is pale 
luteous; palpi, dark brown; antenne, luteous above and behind, darker beneath; 
where they are faintly serrate. Thorax and abdomen pale luteous, flecked with 
brown; legs slightly more dusky; wings sparsely scaled. 
Primaries grayish-yellow inclining to saffron, with the ordinary discal patch and 
five more or less distinct obliquely-transverse bands, as follows: one rather broad, 
and across basal one-fourth of the wings, arched posteriorly near costa, and thence 
obliquing basally to inner border, along which it extends to inner angle; a second 
of same width, obliquing more directly from widdle of costa to middle of inner 
an 
Fia. 11.—Carphoxera ptelearia; outline of wings, showing 
venation. Enlarged. (Original.) 
