OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XII, 1910. 133 



ture as the genus Crocidosona Zeller and should be placed 

 as a synonym of this genus. It has a very similar costal fold, 

 as is found in C. laiitaiia, and is also much like this species in 

 ornamentation, but has yet another secondary sexual character 

 in the male, namely, the strongly notched antennae. 



Family 



Cremastobombycia lantanella, new species. 



Labial palpi silvery white. Face silvery white with a brassy sheen. 

 Antenna 1 with the entire under side silvery white, upper side dark fus- 

 cous, with narrow silvery cross-lines indicating the joints. Tuft on head 

 of mixed white and golden-yellow hairs. Thorax golden yellow. Fore- 

 wings golden yellow with white markings consisting of a short, thin, 

 basal, central, longitudinal streak, two costal and two dorsal streaks, all 

 slightly edged with black scales exteriorly and all before the apical 

 third. At apical third is a large white costal and an opposite white dor- 

 sal blotch, and at apex is a similar white spot, all strongly mottled with 

 single black scales. Cilia golden. Hind wings blackish fuscous. Ab- 

 domen dark fuscous above, silvery white on the underside. Legs sil- 

 very white with golden tibial bars and with black tarsal annulations. 



Alar expanse, 7 .o to >s mm. 



Habitat: Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. O. H.Sweeney, 

 collector. 



Foodplant: Lantana. 



Type: No. 13150, U. S. National Museum. Cotypes in 

 British Museum. 



This is a Mexican species definitely known to have been in- 

 troduced into Hawaii by A. Koebele; it is now firmly estab- 

 lished there. It is the species mentioned by the writer in a 

 footnote on page 134, Canadian Entomologist, April, l')08. 



Both fore and hind wings have vein 5 present and stalked 

 with vein (>. The larva makes a large bulged or inflated mine 

 on the leaf of [Miitana, equally visible on both sides of the 

 leaf. It makes a white, spindle-shaped, slender cocoon, sus- 

 pended within the mine by silken threads from each end like 

 a hammock. 



It is with much satisfaction that I am able to correct my 

 expressed views on Miss Braun's genus Cremastobombycia; I 

 am now convinced of its generic validity and it must, as 

 Miss Braun has stated, be regarded as an earlier genus than 

 both Chambersia and Phyllonorvcter, the former of which 

 has retained the ornamentation, but has developed its peculiar 

 larval form, while the latter has retained the ancestral larval 



