THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



C. residua, var. 



$ . A remarkable aberration of this species is represented in the 

 Collection by a specimen which has the left hind wing smaller and beneath 

 hoary at base without the band. Fore wings with the t. p. line thrown 

 out of position, back towards base of wing and aberrant in its course. 

 Thorax rusty. Habitat, New York. 



TINEINA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KV. 



GRACILARIA. 



G. fasciella Cham. 



G. ^-fiotella Cham. 



With ten specimens of fasciella and two of ^-notella before me, with 

 scarcely a trace of variation in the ten, but with the two differing from 

 each other somewhat and both differing very decidedly from the ten, I had 

 no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species. A larger series, how- 

 ever, induces the belief that they belong to the same species. The 

 difference between them may be thus stated : In fasciella the base and 

 apex of the fore wings are brownish-gray, and between these portions are 

 three brownish-gray and four white fascire, all very distinct and well 

 defined. In ^-notclla the whole dorsal half of the wing is white, there is 

 a small brown spot on the base of the costal margin, another further back, 

 and still further back another which in the middle of the wing is pro- 

 duced backwards to the gray-brown apical part of the wing, which encloses 

 two small white costal streaks. A larger series, however, shows that the 

 two forms vary into each other and induce the suspicion that Dr, Clemens 

 described his G. fulgidclla from a form like ^-notclla. The tuft on the 

 second joint of the palpi is minute, and in all of my specimens but two 

 it has been removed in pinning. 



G. Packardella Cham. 



In this species there is great range in the intensity of the purplish 

 tinge. Some specimens might be described as having it so strongly 

 developed as to ally them to purpuriella, sligmatella, &c., while in others 



