July, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 317 



wing, but exteriorly rather sharply edged by a whitish area ; the tip 

 liberally sprinkled with black and brown ; cilia dirty white, sprinkled 

 with dark scales and with a faint transverse line of brown before 

 the tip. Hind wings light fuscous. Underside of body silvery white. 

 Anterior legs brown with white tarsal annulations ; posterior legs 

 white, mottled with brown exteriorly. Alar expense : 12 mm. 



Habitat San Diego, California. (W. S. Wright, collector.) 



Type U. S. N. Mus. No. 11915. 



A neat little species without the sinuation at vein 2 in the 

 forewing normally characteristic of the genus, but otherwise 

 conforming with the definition and undoubtedly properly 

 placed. In the ornamentation of palpi and wings it reminds 

 one somewhat of Anacampsis paltadoriella Busck. 



Gelecbia morenella n. sp. 



Labial palpi white with base of second joint black and with entire 

 terminal joint liberally sprinkled with black; brush evenly rounded. 

 Antenna? purplish black. Face, head and thorax white ; patagina black. 

 Abdomen light golden fuscous, iridescent. Forewings deep pur- 

 plish brown, nearly black, with two longitudinal white stripes ; 

 of these one is costal, beginning at the base of the wing and running 

 very close to the costal edge and terminates at apical fifth ; the other 

 white streak covers broadly the dorsal edge from base to tornus, 

 whence it bends slightly upwards along the terminal edge of 

 the wing in a narrower and fainter spur, obscured by dark scaling. 

 Cilia whitish dotted with black. Hindwings broader than the fore- 

 wings, brownish fuscous ; cilia lighter. Anterior legs brown ; posterior 

 legs dusky white, iridescent. Alar expanse: 16-18 mm. 



Habitat Morena and Pine Valley, San Diego, California, 

 July 4-6. (G. H. Field, collector.) 



Type U. S. N. Mus. No. 11916. 



A striking species of the black and white group, easily recog- 

 nized by its ornamentation; in pattern it is very close to the 

 larger yellow and black Gclechia aristella, Busck. 



REMOVAL OF INSECTS FROM THE EAR. Dr. Robbins removes live in- 

 sects from the ear by placing the patient in a dark room and holding 

 a lighted taper or lamp right up to the ear. The insects will back out. 

 He has practiced this method for thirty-six years. Dr. Lewis removes 

 them by the use of a pine rod six inches long tipped very lightly 

 with the composition from a sticky fly paper. He was removed many 

 in this way during thirty years' practice. 



