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Show 1880.] LORD WALSINGHAM ON NEW TINEID^E. 85 ginal types, especially as he himself subsequently referred a specimen with white hind wings to the same species. I have a female with white hind wings in m y own North-American collection. Genus ANESYCHIA, Hiibner. In tbe " Index to the described Tineina of the United States and Canada," given by Mr. Chambers in the 'Bulletin of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey,' vol. iv. (1878), in enumerating the species which have been placed in the genus Anesychia, he includes " A. sparcicella (sic), Clem." (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 430), described from specimens in the collection of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. This species should be placed in the genus Cryptolechia (Zell.). It is the Cryptolechia contrariella of Walker's ' Catalogue,' part xxix. p. 771, the preface of which is dated March 7th, 1864-the same month in which Dr. Clemens's description appeared. The same species is also described and figured by Prof. Zeller (Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxv. pp. 343, 344, pl. x. fig. 51) under the name of Cryptolechia atropicta; the only difference appears to be the absence in this figure and description of a small black spot at the base of the dorsal margin, which exists in Clemens's and Walker's specimens. If I am correct in believing the three authors above quoted to refer to the same species, its synonymy would be as follows :- CRYPTOLECHIA CONTRARIELLA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxix. p. 771. Anesychia sparsiciliella, Clem. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 430 ; Stainton, Tin. N. Amer. p. 255. Cryptolechia atropicta, Zell. Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien, xxv. pp. 343, 344, pl. x. fig. 5J. Anesychia sparcicella, Cham. Bull. U.S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. iv. p. 129. ANESYCHIA HAGENELLA, Chambers, Bull. U.S. Geog. and Geol. Surv. iv. p. 81. This species seems to be nearly allied to Psecadia semilugens, Zell., = Anesychia multipunctella, Cham, (non Hyponomeuta multi-punctella, Clem.), and should perhaps more properly be placed with some of its allies in the genus Psecadia (Hiibn.). Genus PSECADIA, Hiibner. Zeller, in the ' Horae Soc. Ent. Ross.' xiii. pp. 235, 236, pl. iii. fig. 71, describes aud figures Psecadia xanthorrhoa, from Porto Rico. A comparison of the figure, which is very accurate, with a specimen in the British Museum shows this to be the species described by Walker (Cat. Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 536) as Psecadia notatella, from St. Domingo. The following new species, belonging to the genera Hyponomeuta and Psecadia are at present in my collection. I have also here |