THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 123 



TINEINA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KY. 



GRACILARIA. 



G. ( Corisceum ) albafiotella Cham. 



The nearest known ally of this species is the European C. Brong?iiard- 

 ellui/i, not C. calicella St., as I suggested before I knew Brojigniardelhim. 

 AlbanotcUa makes a large, somewhat tentiform mine, on the under stirface 

 of oak leaves ( Q. obiusiloba and Q. alba); the mine is at first long, 

 winding and NepticuU-ioxm, ending in the large tentiform blotch. The 

 larva, before leaving the mine, becomes pinkish red. In the breeding 

 cage it ])upates in a cocoonet which it spins on the surface of the leaves. 

 I have never met with the pujDa elsewhere, nor have I ever, although I 

 have seen hundreds of the mines, found one on the upper surface of the 

 leaf. Yet in Colorado I found a precisely similar larva in precisely 

 similar mines, always on the upper surface of the leaves, and the cocoonet 

 of the pupa was always found on the leaves near it. The larva of alba- 

 jiotella is abundant in tlie latter part of May and the first half of June, and 

 I have never seen it at any other time, though from the abundance of the 

 imago in perfect condition in May, I infer there must be a fall brood 

 of the larva. The description should be corrected to state that the cilise 

 of the fore wings are whitish with the tips at the apex fuscous, and with a 

 wide yellowish hinder marginal line, which sends off two ciliary lines or 

 hooks through the dorso-apical ciliae. The e/es are bright red. 



G. fasciella Cham. 



Aesyle fascicUa Cham., C. Q. J. S., v. 2, p. 97. 



In indicating the new genus Aesyle for this species, I committed a 

 mistake very similar to that of Dr. Clemens in estabfishing his genus 

 Paredopa for P. robiniella, &c., which also belong in Gracilaria. G. 

 fasciella finds its nearest ally in the European omissella, but the fasciae are 

 oblique and angulated in the latter, and are not in fasciella, in which they 

 are perpendicular to the margins ; fasciella has four white fascia separating 

 the five grayish ochreous ones, the last of which covers the apex, which is 



