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at tornus. Hind wings dark grayish brown; cilia concolorous. Abdomen 

 pale glossy gray-brown. Legs white, longitudinally banded on outer sides 

 with grayish fuscous. 



Alar Expanse. 13 mm. 

 Locality. Boston, Mass. 

 Food Plant. Aster multiflorus. 

 Type. Cat. No. 22806, U. S. N. M. 



Described from a single female reared September 20, 1920, by 

 August Busck, from larva taken feeding on Aster multiflorus. 

 This species is nearest to C. infuscatella Clemens, but separable 

 from it by having two, not four, longitudinal white stripes on the 

 forewings. 



The larval case is grayish white, of silk, evenly and entirely 

 covered with small particles of sand (possibly an accidental accre- 

 tion from the rearing jar); cylindrical; slender and slightly taper- 

 ing toward posterior end; 13 mm. long by about 2 mm. thick 

 at the widest part just before middle; posterior end rounded and 

 flatly compressed; mouth deflected to 45 degrees. 



Coleophora veroniaeella Chambers. 



Dyar Cat. No. 6051. 



Braun. Ent. News, Vol. 23, p. 163, 1912. 



This species was described by Chambers from larval cases taken 

 on Vernonia. Miss Braun later reared and described the moths. 

 During 1914 I found cases answering Chambers' description very 

 abundantly on a species of swamp Helieanthus in a low, shaded, 

 damp piece of woodland at Falls Church, Va. The moths reared 

 from these proved to be Chambers' species. Larvae were taken 

 feeding in May and adults issued June 24 to July 10. The near- 

 est iron weed (Venonia) is about a mile distant but to date I have 

 not found any larval cases on it. As there is no doubt as to the 

 identity of the adults, both plants must be regarded as food 

 plants. 

 Coleophora tiliafoliella Clem. 



Dyar Cat. No. 6048. 



Kearfott. Can. Ent., Vol. 36, p. 324, 1904. 



Kearfott describes the moth reared from cases collected at 

 Ottawa, Canada, as having white scaling on and below the costa 

 of forewing. Specimens in U. S. N. M. (reared by Wm. Wild, 

 from Gowanda, N. Y.) show no such white markings, which 

 would indicate that there are two pistol case feeders on Tilia, 

 or that the species is more variable than others in this genus. 

 The cases, however, agree in every detail with Clemens' descrip- 

 tion. To date I have not been able to locate Kearfott's specimen. 



