54 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BUCCULATRIX. 



B. niveella. N. sp. 



Snow white, very faintly tinged with yellowish on the front of the 

 tuft and in the apical part of the fore wings, and with a very few scattered 

 brown scales in the costal ciliae, but with two distinct dark brown hinder 

 marginal lines in the dorsal ciliae, one at their base, the other beyond 

 their middle, slightly converging towards the apex. AL ex. a little under 

 half an inch. 



The two following" species I place with a little doubt in this genus. 

 In Bucculatrix the tongue is short, but with careful observation of both 

 these species, and dissections of one of them (B. ? magnella), I have 

 been unable to discover any trace of a tongue ; the tuft also is larger than 

 is usual in Bucculatrix, and in the hind wings of B. tnagnella the apical 

 vein goes to the apex, and the median gives off only a single branch, 

 instead of two. It is also a large species for the genus. 



B. magneUa. N. sp. 



Snow white. There is a rust red spot on the front of the tuft ; a 

 dark golden brown streak along the middle of the fore wings, beginning 

 on the base, but in the apical part of the wing curving down to the base 

 of the dorsal ciliae, and extending thence around the apex. There is 

 another narrow streak of the same hue parallel to it, which begins behind 

 the middle of the wing, and is usually partly confluent with it, and after 

 reaching the base of the dorsal ciliae, it passes on to and through the 

 apical ciliae. There is a dusting of ochreous scales along the base of the 

 costal ciliae, and the apex is suffused with reddish ochreous. AL 

 ex. fully half inch. Season, April and May. 



B. immaatlatcUa. N. sp. 



No tongue? Silvery white, immaculate. Al. ex. ts inch. Season, 

 Ma)'. 



P.UTALIS. 



B. brevistrigella. 



This is a very variable species, or my specimens represent more than 

 one species. Sometimes (as stated in the former description) there is 

 simply a yellow streak on the fold, which is sometimes interrupted. In 

 others there is no distinct streak on the fold, but the dorsal margin to the 

 fold, and crossing it near the base of the wing, is densely dusted with 

 pale ochreous yellow, thus approaching B. dorsipalideUa, which may 

 possibly be an extreme variety of the same species. 



