Abstract

Oneida luniferella, n. sp.—Tongue blackish with some light gray scales; labial palpi and face light gray; antennæ blackish gray; antennal protection light gray at base, becoming blackish gray towards summit; thorax gray, patagia lighter, becoming nearly white posteriorly; abdomen gray with black scales intermixed, somewhat washed with fuscous, and often stained with yellowish. Fore wings light gray at base to raised scale ridge immediately before the first cross-line; this line is white, rounded from costa to median vein, and thence to inner margin, edged on both sides with black and preceded by a scale ridge which is reddish brown in colour; middle field light gray, glistering, slightly powdered with blackish scales, this colour reaching to outer margin posterior to vein 5; near middle of field and between vein 1 and median vein a raised scale tuft, blackish.

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