286 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



This species is related to lineata, from which it is separated by the 

 colour of the posterior femora. 



Macrophya minuta, n. sp. $ . — Black, with the following parts 

 white : the labrum, the mandibles except at apex, the outer margins of 

 the tegulae, the cenchri, the front and middle coxae at apex, the posterior 

 coxfe at apex and an ovate spot at side, the trochanters, the front and 

 middle femora and tibije beneath, the front and middle tarsi except 

 fuscous rings on the apices of the segments, and a narrow ring on the 

 base of the posterior femora ; the clypeus broadly emarginate ; the 

 labrum angularly emarginate ; the head and thorax coarsely punctate ; 

 the third segments of the antennae about one-fourth longer than the 

 fourth ; the wings hyaline ; the veins black ; the stigma, except its front 

 margin, blackish rufous ; the lanceolate cell contracted at middle. 

 Length, 6.5 mm. 



Habitat— Plattsburg, New York. Mr. H. G. Dyar, collector. 



OENECTRA FLAVIBASANA, FERN. 



On the 20th of June, 1895, Mr. Balkwill brought to me some 

 Tortricid moths which he found at rest upon honeysuckle in his garden. 

 They were new to me. He asked if I wanted any more ? I said I would 

 take all he liked to bring of that kind ; so by the 27th I had got about 

 three dozen of them. Being desirous of learning something about them, 

 I applied to Prof. C. H. Fernald for information, and sent some of the 

 moths. He replied : " They are Oenectra flavibasa?ia, Fern. That he 

 had two specimens in his collection ; the types : one from Texas and one 

 from Illinois. That nothing is known of their early stages or food plants, 

 and would be glad to have published all that was known on these points." 

 Up to the present time I can give nothing with certainty upon these 

 points. Presumably, the larvae had fed upon the honeysuckle, as 

 chrysalids were found in the connate leaves with a thin silken web spun 

 over them, one of which I raised to the moth. There is plenty of evidence 

 of feeding having been done upon the plant, but nothing positive as to what 

 did It. A lookout is being kept upon the plants for the next brood. 



The original description was published in the Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society, Vol. X., p. 69, 1882. I see by it that 

 the types are females. I may mention that the males are decidedly 

 smaller in size, and lighter in colour, as a rule; otherwise the sexes do 

 not perceptibly differ. J. Alston Moffat, London, Ont. 



