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A NKW J'ORTKICID FROM TEXAS. 



i;V AUGUST BUSCK, U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Cydia grindeliana, sp. nov. — Antenn;i3 l)lackish brown, witli short 

 greenish cih'a. Labial palpi light greenish yellow, tipped with black. 

 Head and thorax light greenish yellow. Fore wings light straw-coloured, 

 overlaid and streaked with light greenish yellow, and in some specimens 

 with light olive. Costal edge from base to apex with short black and 

 silvery-white strigulas. Ocellus light shining yellow, edged anteriorly and 

 posteriorly by narrow perpendicular silvery metallic lines, and containing 

 three short black dashes, two on the anterior margin and one on the 

 ajtical margin; above this is a small area, thickly mottled with dark brown 

 scales, and the whole is surrounded by a narrow silvery line. Termen 

 edged with dark brown ; cilia yellow, with white base, and with dark 

 brown scales, forming a more or less complete marginal line. Hind wings 

 light silvery fuscous. Abdomen silvery fuscous. Legs yellowish, tarsi 

 annulated with black. 



Alar expanse : 17-19 mm. 



Habitat : Clarejuion^ Texas (October). 



Food-plant : Grindelia squarrosa^ var. nuda. U. S. Nat. Museum. 

 Type No. 9804. 



The species is nearest C. olivaceaua, Riley, and C. griseocapiiana, 

 Walsingham, but lighter, nnre bright yellow than either. From both it 

 also differs in the dark-tipped labial palpi. From C. olivaceana, which it 

 most resembles in general colour, it differs by the continuous series of 

 small costal strigulce, and in the absence of the oblique olive costal streak 

 at apical third. The strigul?e it has in common with C. griseocapitana, 

 but that species has a more dingy whitish colour, irrorate with olive ; that 

 species, type of which I took careful notes on last spring in the British 

 Museum, also has the oblique costal streak at apical third, and has the 

 cilia irregularly dusted with brown. The type of Riley's species is : U. S, 

 National Museum, besides several other specimens. That species feeds 

 on Soli dago. 



The types of the present species were bred by Mr. W. Dwight Fierce, 

 of the U. S. Dept of Agriculture. The larva feeds in the flower-heads of 

 Grindelia, and pupates in a loose cocoon in the same place. 



June, 1906 



