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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



proved to be a new species her description of the adult is as 

 follows : 



"Alar expanse 14 to 15 mm. General colour, satiny brownish-buff 

 with slight opalescence, and more or less leaden shading on thorax, wings 

 and body. Head buff, densely and somewhat shaggily scaled. Eyes 

 prominent, purple-black. Antennae two-thirds as long as wings ; basal 

 joint conspicuously long and stout ; second joint also long with the inner 

 side peculiarly excavated. Palpi (labial) long recurved with short almost 

 concealed basal joint, long slightly thickened second joint and slender 

 tapering terminal. Thorax broad ; patagia rather large, all anteriorly 

 bordered with leaden gray. 

 Fore wings varying in colour 

 from almost clear buff to buff 

 so interspersed with the 

 darker scales as to produce a 

 ' smudged ' effect ; a small but 

 distinct black discal dot and 

 a group of five smaller, less 

 clearly defined ones at the 

 base of the terminal third, 

 constitute the ornamentation. 

 Hind wings rather broad, 

 somewhat paler and more 

 lustrous than the primaries. 

 Fringes concolorous with 

 wing surface, also varying 

 in intensity of the dark shadings, 

 buff anal tuft. Legs agreeing in 

 especially of hinder pair, densely 

 hairs. 



. " Described from two males, 

 mutilated. 



" The generic location of this insect is provisional, merely. In 

 pterogastic and palpal characters it agrees quite closely with some of the 

 Gelechiidae, but even from these the venation presents some differences, 

 while the structure of the antennae renders the erection of a new genus 

 probable, when a more liberal supply of specimens admits of closer 

 microscopic study of the separate organs." 



Fig. 12.— Adult Fringed-Wing Apple- Bud Moth, Nothris? 

 maligemmella ; enlarged — X t, Diam. (Original.) 



Body, yellowish gray with bright 



colour with under surface, tibia 



clothed with long but appressed 



one perfect, the other somewhat 



