8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [xxxii, '21 



Notes on Microlepidoptera with Descriptions of 



New Species. 



By ANNETTE F. BRAUN. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Isophrictis similiella Chambers. 



Gclccliia simiUclla Chambers. Can. Ent. IV, 193, 1872. 



Paltodora siinincUa (Chambers) Busck, Proc. U. S. N. M., XXV, 

 779. 1903; XXX, 722, 1906. 



The only reference to the life history of this species is found 

 in Mr. Busck's Revision of American Gclechiid Moths, where 

 he mentions the rearing of poor specimens from flower heads 

 of sunflower from Oklahoma. 



The larvae bore in the receptacle of the flower heads of 

 hlack-eyed Susan (Rudbcckia hirla). At pupation the larva 

 burrows down into the stem for a distance of one-fourth to 

 two or three inches, where it makes an opening to the outside, 

 and then pupates in the stern. 



The species is very common locally around Cincinnati, nearly 

 every flower head containing one or more of the whitish larvae. 

 The moths emerge during the flowering period of the plant, 

 which extends from June to August. 



Aristotelia robusta n. sp. 



Head and face yellowish fuscous, palpi dark fuscous irrorated with 

 black ; second segment whitish inwardly and at extreme apex out- 

 wardly, third segment shorter and thicker than usual, apical half 

 white ; extreme tip sometimes black. Antennae blackish fuscous in 

 the apical half, with the last segment, and fifth and tenth from the 

 tip white ; beginning with the fourteenth segment from the tip, paler 

 fuscous, annulate with yellowish white. 



Fore wings dull ocherous rather densely overlaid with purplish 

 fuscous dusting, especially toward apex, where it obscures the ground 

 color. Before the middle of the wing and beginning within the costa, 

 a darker shade crosses the wing very obliquely to the fold where it 

 spreads out, rarely reaching the dorsal margin near tornus. At two- 

 thirds a not very oblique yellowish costal streak passes to the middle 

 of the wing just beyond the rather elongate black spot at the end of 

 the cell. A dark line at the base of the cilia is broken on the costa 

 by four faint ocherous spots ; similar pale spots sometimes visible 

 along termen. Hind wings fuscous. Legs dull yellowish, densely 

 dusted with dark fuscous outwardly. Alar expanse: 11-12 mm. 



pe ( $ ) rind 30 paratypes reared from larvae mining 



