PROC. ENT. SOC. WASH., VOL. 22, XO. J, OCT., 1 920 159 



Type. Cat. No. 22S25, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Described from ten specimens, four males and six females. 

 Nine of these specimens were collected by Geo. Hofer at light 

 between May 28 and August 10, and the other specimen was col- 

 lected by Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz, on July 5th. 



This species is allied to crypto, Say, but is easily distinguished 

 from that species by being more parallel, pubescence more dis- 

 tinctly variegated with white and ochreous hairs, and by having 

 the antennae not distinctlv annulated. 



COLEOPHORA NOTES WITH DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW 



SPECIES fLEPID.). 



BY CARL HEINRICH, Bureau of Entomology. 



Coleophora occidentis Zeller. 



Dyar Cat. No. 6034. 



Zeller describes the larval case of occidentis as very similar to 

 that of the European nigricella. This would indicate that it is 

 a good species and should be removed from its present position 

 as a synonym of pruniella Clem. The larval case of the latter 

 as described by Miss Braun (Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. XXI, No. 4, 

 p. 157, 1914) is of quite a different structure, resembling that of 

 leucochrysella much more than it does nigricella. 



Coleophora acamtopappi Busck. 



Busck. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 17, p. 87, 1915. 



Busck described this species from adults only. We "have since 

 received two reared specimens from H. Jobbins-Pomeroy with 

 larval cases. The larval case is very striking and the longest 

 yet recorded from North America. It is white; cylindrical; 25 

 to 2<S mm. long by 4 mm. thick; tapering slightly to posterior 

 end, which is triangularly compressed; mouth deflecting to 45 

 degrees. The larvae were taken feeding on Coreopsis species, 

 Havana, 111., moths issuing in June. Busck's type was reared 

 from Acamtopappus from Los Angeles Co., Calif. 



Coleophora astericola, n. sp. 



Labial palpi grayish fuscous streaked with white above and below; second 

 joint tufted. Antennae white faintly annulated with pale gray-brown; basal 

 joint slightly thickened with appressed, glossy gray-brown scales, not tufted. 

 Face, head and thorax glossy, gray-brown with narrow borders of white 

 above the. eyes and antennae and along the inner margins of the patagia. 

 Fore wings dark grayish brown with two longitudinal white stripes, one on 

 costa from base to middle, the other extending along the lower vein of tin- 

 cell , and disappearing towards tornus; a few blackish scales scattered over 

 the wing; cilia concolorous with wing, somewhat marked with white scales 



