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of the wing, just before the middle, and a small costal one a little further 

 back. There is an irregular golden spot, sprinkled with brownish and 

 containing a small tuft of raised scales, on the dorsal margin just before 

 the ciliae, which sends backwards two narrow, oblique, golden streaks,. 

 one of which passes to the dorsal margin, and the other, which has some 

 brown scales intermixed, passes back towards the middle of the apical 

 part of the wing, where it becomes confluent with a median, short, straight 

 golden or orange streak, and with a rather long, curved, oblique and nar- 

 row costal streak, which begins just before the ciliae and is of the same 

 hue with the other streaks, except near the costa, where it is brown. 

 These three streaks proceed no further after their union, stopping short 

 of the apex ; but behind them, in the middle of the apical part of the 

 wing and extending along through the apex and apical ciliae, is another 

 large dark brown streak ; and on the costal margin are two large, oblique,, 

 reddish golden streaks, the first of which touches the three confluent 

 streaks above mentioned and the dark brown streak in the apex ; the 

 second one appears to be faintly divided on the costa by a small white 

 streak, and is narrowly margined behind by dark brown scales ; and 

 behind it is a triangular white spot in the ciliae. Beyond this white spot 

 in the ciliae are two narrow, dark brown, oblique lines, diverging from a 

 common point and reminding one of the ' hook ' in some species of 

 Gracilaria, and the similar appearance in Polyhymno, to which, in the 

 ornamentation of the apical parts of the wings, this species bears consider- 

 able resemblance, as it also does to some species of Lyonetia in so far as 

 the arrangement of these marks is concerned. The apical black streak 

 is bordered behind by a short perpendicular streak of the same hue. 

 Dorsal ciliae white, dusted with dark brown. First two pair of legs dark 

 brown ; the tarsi of the posterior pair are annulate with yellow, the legs 

 otherwise silvery white, marked with black spots. Abdomen pale 

 stramineous ; secondaries pale yellowish fuscous ; under side of primaries 

 fuscous. At. ex. nearly half an inch. 



I have also received specimens of it from Miss Murtfeldt, of St. Louis,, 

 who bred it from a larva mining in the stalk of the so-called Primrose 

 ( Oenothera Missow'iensis), and who sends me the following notes : 



"The larva of this exquisite little moth may be found during the 

 months of August and September boring the stems of Oenothera Mis- 

 sourieusis. It feeds upon the pith, leaving the tunnel in its wake filled 

 with coarse powdery granules, and it does not seem to check the growth 

 of the plant to any great extent. 



