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slight tuft, and the remaining joints of the antennae and also the joints of 

 the tarsi are steel gray annulated with white. 



The cases are brown, composed of a portion of the leaf, cylindrical 

 or fusiform, slightly compressed laterally, and with a more or less 

 distinct ridge above and beneath. The mouth is more or less oblique, 

 with the edge flaring out slightly. One side of the case is covered with 

 fine hairs while the other is smooth, showing that the larva constructs its 

 case from the upper and under sides of the leaf 



Described from three specimens received from Mr. James Fletcher, 

 for whom I name this species, and who bred it from apple. I have also 

 received the same species from Prof. Lintner who also bred it from apple. 



NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BOMBYLID.^. 



BY D. W. COQUILLETT, LOS ANCxELES CAL. 



Exoprosopa, Macq. — At the present time no little confusion exists in 

 regard to those species in which the brown of the wings does not form 

 crossbands, and I am unable to give a table for separating these species 

 that would be of much use to the student. Those species from the 

 United States which possess crossbands of this kind, and which always 

 have the anal and axillary cells more or less brown, may be tabulated 

 as follows : — 



1. Wings brown, the apex broadly, and a large spot in the discal 



cell, hyaline emargmata, Macq. 



Wings not marked like this 2 



2. The brown crossband at apex of discal cell reaches the hind 



margin of the wing 3 



The brown crossband does not reach the hind margin 4 



3. A pure hyaline crossband near base of wing i f ^^ ^l-^' ^' c^ 



{. dorcadion, O. S. 



A yellowish but never pure hyaline crossband near base of 



wing decora, Lw. 



4. Extreme apex of marginal cell hyaline 5 



Extreme apex of marginal cell brown fascipeimis, Say, 



5. With a brown spot at base of vein between the second and 



third posterior cells 6 



Without this spot, the wing at this point being pure \\.y2iX\wt. grata, n. sp. 



6. Base of discal cell more or less hyaline 7 



Base of discal cell wholly brown eremita, O. S. 



7. First posterior cell open,or closed near the margin of the wing,^/^r/.f, O-S. 

 First posterior cell closed and long petiolate . iota, O. S. 



