IOWA MICROLEPIDOPTERA 
A. W. LINDSEY 
After writing my last paper on the Lepidoptera of Iowa, viz., 
“Some Iowa Records of Lepidoptera,” I still had in my posses- 
sion a considerable number of specimens of Tineoidea and all 
of the Phycitinse which I had taken in the state. I attempted to 
work up this material during my last few months as curator of 
the Barnes collection at Decatur, Illinois, and succeeded with 
most of the Tineoidea. . The subfamily Phycitinse of the Pyra- 
lidse is in such great need of careful revision that I feel safer in 
omitting it entirely at present, though I have identified a few 
species with a reasonable degree of certainty. 
Since returning to Iowa I have done a small amount of field 
work in the vicinity of Sioux City with very interesting results. 
I hope to add such observations as I am able to make in the 
spring of 1922, and possibly the summer, to complete the ma- 
terial for a supplementary paper, and therefore limit the present 
list to the records of Tineoidea. 
My good friend, Mr. R. A. Leussler, of Omaha, Nebraska, 
communicates to me from time to time some very remarkable 
captures made near that city. Is there no person in the adjacent 
portion of our own state who takes an interest in this order of 
insects? The field must be fertile, and careful collecting should 
add many species to our known fauna. 
My list of species is as follows : 
Cosmopterygidae 
1. Psacaphora termineila West. Iowa City, one, June 3, 1917. 
2. Mompha eloisella Clem. Sioux City, July. 
Gelechiidae 
3. Metzneria lappella Linn. Sioux City, one, July 17, 1917. 
4. Aristotelia roseosuffusella Clem. Ames, August, abundant. 
5. Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis Riley. Sioux City and Iowa 
City. 
6. Gnorimoschema septentrionella Eyles. Iowa City, one, Oc- 
tober 8, 1917. 
7. Bpithectis attributella Wlk. Sioux City, July. 
8. Aro galea cristifasciella Cham. Sioux City, May. 
