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Show 1881.] ON NORTH-AMERICAN TINEIM5. 301 4. On some North-American Tineidse. By THOMAS, Lord WALSINGHAM, F.Z.S. [Received February 15, 1881.] (Plates XXXV., XXXVI.) In a paper published last year in the Proceedings of this Society, I endeavoured to contribute a few observations upon synonymy, calculated to afford some assistance towards a revision of the North-American Tineidse. I now propose to describe a few more new species from that country, and to direct attention to the synonymy of some others of the genera to which they belong. Of the ten genera noticed in this paper, four only have at present been recognized by American authors. The claims of one other to a footing in the N e w World have hitherto rested upon Mr. Walker's record of a single specimen not now to be found in the British Museum. Two European genera are now, for the first time, mentioned as occurring there, unless one of these has possibly been recharacterized in America under another name; and three, so far as I am able to determine, are new. Some species known in Europe are also now recorded from California and Oregon. PHRYGANEOPSIS, gen. nov. Caput hirsutum; antennae pubescentes; haustellum mediocre; palpi maxillares plicati; palpi labiates capite ter longiores, porrecti, supra et infra hirsute pilosi. Ala? antica? a basi dilatata?, costa subarcuata, apice depresso; margo apicalis obliguus. Alee postica? lata?. Abdomen anguste compressum. Tibia? hirsute pilosa?, aliquot incrassata?. Head rough; antennas indented at the joints, pubescent in both sexes, more strongly in the male; ocelli none; tongue of medium length, slightly scaled ; maxillary palpi folded. Labial palpi projecting, three times the length of the head, slightly drooping; the second joint scarcely thickened beyond the middle, the apical joint rather more than half the length of the second, roughly clothed to the points with coarse hair-like scales. 3 . Fore wings rather broad, the costa slightly arched, depressed towards the apex (broader and subfalcate in the female); apicalmargin oblique. Hind wings broad, not perceptibly indented below the apex; fringes long. Abdomen laterally compressed, projecting considerably beyond the hind wings. Tibias roughly hairy, somewhat thickened. This somewhat aberrant form should probably be placed somewhere near the genus Incurvaria. It differs very considerably in the form of the palpi, but approaches that genus in the neuration and in the form of the abdomen, as also somewhat in general appearance. I have failed to find, in the writings of either Mr. Clemens or Mr. Chambers, any generic description which would rightly apply to its peculiar structure and appearance; nor is there any European form which corresponds to it. |