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that the moth seen by Mr. Howard and Mr. Rose, to which I 

 referred in the previous note, is specifically the same as those 

 sent on by Prof. Watson, but the presumption as to identity is 

 justified, for the work in the capsules is the same in both cases 

 and different from that of C. saltitans in the capsules of the 

 other species of Sebastiania to which I have referred. The 

 species may be known as Grapholitha sebastiani<z , and I sub 

 mit a description : 



Grapholitha sebastianise, n. sp. 



Average expanse, 12 to 16 mm. General color, dusky gray, primaries 

 with the costal median area brighter bluish-gray, and with a faint 

 metallic luster ; the ordinary eye-patch on the posterior third of the 

 wing circular and not distinctly separated from the rest in color. The 

 costa is conspicuously marked with about eight dark-brown posteriorly- 

 obliquing dashes, alternating with geminate white streaks, the dark dashes 

 broadening towards the apex. The third of these dark dashes from the 

 apex curves uniformly toward the posterior margin and then extends 

 along the margin until it meets a branch of the fifth, the two together bor 

 dering the eye-spot and making almost a perfect circle of it. Secondaries 

 quite uniformly blackish-gray. 



Described from three specimens reared from the seed capsuls 

 of Sebastiania bicapsularis , Watson, from Northern Mexico. 



The species is closely related to Grapolitha caryana Fitch, 

 from which it is distinguished, however, by the prominent 

 furcate dark streak extending from the fifth costal streak count 

 ing from the apex. The coloration of the hind wings in 

 caryana is also not uniform, but whitish along the anterior 

 border. 



The species would seem to belong, according to Heine- 

 mann's Tables, to the sub-genus Coptoloma, the principal 

 character of which is a truncation of the hind wings between 

 the anal angle and vein 2 ; but as I cannot consider this of 

 generic value, I prefer to describe it under the better defined 

 genus Grapholitha. . 



FIG INSECTS IN MEXICO. 

 BY C. V. RlLEY. 



In connection with the a.bove, and in the same letter, Prof. 

 Watson sent me a fig full of galls, with the following inquiry : 



" I also enclose what may interest you, the fruit of a Ficus 

 from Mexico, in which you will find the gall-insect in its perfect 

 winged ' state. I have examined the fruit of a considerable 

 number of species of the wild figs of Mexico and this is the only 

 instance in which I have found the gall-insect, though the gall- 



