April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 177 



Described from four bred specimens and a number of cap- 

 tured specimens ; all from Mills College, Cal., the latter were 

 captured March 25, 1908, the bred specimens emerged from 

 April 25th to May I2th. The food plant belongs to the Ama- 

 ranthaceae, and is probably a species of Cladothri.v. 



Type in my collection ; paratype in the California Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Bucculatrix transversata n. sp. 



Face whitish, speckled with brown ; tuft brown intermixed with 

 white in front and toward the sides. Antennae grayish broadly annu- 

 late with dark brown. Thorax brown. Forewings brown, except along 

 the costal edge and termen, where they are whitish, and dusted with 

 dark fuscous. At the apical third, this dark dusting is a little more 

 dense and extends a little inward onto the brown ground color. Be- 

 yond this the dusting is scattered, and just before the apex the white 

 border is enlarged into a triangular unclusted spot. On the middle ot 

 the dorsal margin is a narrow, half-crescent shaped patch of raised 

 black scales, with one or two white scales before it, and a few scattered 

 black scales behind it. A straight transverse streak of black scales 

 across the apical cilia. Cilia gray. Hind wings and their cilia also 

 gray. Abdomen shining gray, paler beneath. Legs gray, tarsi tipped 

 with black. Expanse : 7 mm. 



Described from a specimen bred on leaves of Ambrosia 

 psylostachya D. C, collected by Mr. G. R. Pilate at Rivera, 

 Los Angeles County, Cal. The larva feeds on the upper side, 

 consuming irregular patches. Pupation took place the latter 

 part of October, the imago appeared December 5th. 



Type in my collection. 



Gracilaria reticulata n. sp. 



Labial palpi pale yellow with a broad brownish red band in the mid- 

 dle of each of the two last joints. Head yellow with a few brownish 

 red scales. Antennae whitish, annulate with black, the anmilations be- 

 coming broader toward the tip. Thorax pale yellow, patagia brownish 

 red. Forewings pale yellow, with the costal half reticulated with 

 brownish red. A band of this red color starts at the basal fifth of the 

 costa and crosses the wing obliquely to the fold where it meets a simi- 

 lar band curving up from the base of the dorsum. The band then con- 

 tinues to the dorsum, where it is angulated and returns again to the 

 fold. This band then continues in a slightly wavy outline to the apex, 

 giving off on its dorsal side, three brownish red bars, of which the 



