174 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 



Nepticula puuctulata n. sp. 



Palpi grayish ; tuft grayish yellow, antennae gray, eye-caps yellowish 

 white. Thorax gray. Forewings shining grayish, yellowish white, 

 with numerous fuscous scales evenly distributed over their surface, so 

 as to give the wings a finely peppered appearance. Cilia pale gray. 

 Hindwings and cilia pale gray, the latter tinged with yellow. Body 

 and legs pale shining gray, faintly tinged with red. Expanse, 4-5-5-5 

 mm. 



Two specimens bred from upper side mines on leaves of 

 Ceanothits cuneatns Nutt, from Dutch Flat, Placer County, 

 Cal. The mine, which in its early stages is not very distinctly 

 visible on the surface of the small thick leaves, usually follows 

 the margin of a leaf, often being bent back on itself. Toward 

 the end it bends into the middle of the leaf, where its apex is 

 suddenly slightly enlarged. 



The cocoon is elliptical, much flattened on its lower side, 

 reddish brown in color, with its upper convex side covered with 

 a loose meshwork of paler strands. 



The mines were received in the early part of January, the 

 imagoes appeared February 27th. The remarkably even dis- 

 tribution of the dark dusting is a striking characteristic of this 

 species. 



Types in my collection. 



Bucculatrix ochristrigella n. sp. 



Face and head creamy white, with a few grayish brown scales in the 

 tuft; antennae pale grayish. Thorax and forewings creamy white, the 

 latter marked with ocherous patches and dashes as follows : a narrow 

 streak along the basal third of the costa, which is brown at its ex- 

 treme edge ; a basal streak in the fold extending nearly to one-third ; 

 just within the costa, an elongate patch at one-third; opposite its end a 

 short streak extends obliquely backward from the middle of the dorsal 

 margin ; just behind the middle of the wing, a long oblique transverse 

 streak, broadest on the costa, extends across the wing into the cilia of 

 the termcn, where it is flecked with brown scales; a triangular spot on 

 the costa beyond this; an oblique streak from the apex into the apical 

 cilia, this latter and also the triangular spot being sparsely flecked with 

 brown scales, which are continued backward to join the dusting at the 

 end of the transverse streak. Hind wings and cilia very pale ocherous. 

 Abdomen above dark posteriorly, lower side and legs grayish ocherous. 

 Expanse, 1 1-11.5 



