THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 165 



Entomologist. The species was sent to me for determination, and 

 learning that it was not represented in the Collection of the National 

 Museum, nor in any other American collection, so far as I was able to 

 ascertain, at the desire of Professor Pettit, I characterized it as new, 

 under the genus Depressaria, with which, in palpal and some other 

 points of structure, it quite closely corresponds. Recently Dr. Dietz, of 

 Hazelton, Pa., and Mr. Busck, of the National Museum, have called my 

 attention to the fact that its venation and other wing characters indicate 

 that it is a Gelechia, to which I had, myself, at first assigned it. To 

 bring it more generally to the attention of economic entomologists, as 

 well as to correct the generic placing and some minor inaccuracies in the 

 description, I copy as follows : Imago — Antenna, dark fuscous, indis- 

 tinctly pectinate and banded on the under side with pale buff. Palpi 

 long, exceeding the vertex. Basal joint short, pale ; second joint one- 

 third longer than apical. Brush quite dense, distinctly divided, dark 

 fuscous overlaid with cream-coloured scales, palest on inner side. Apical 

 joint dark, very slender, with extreme tip cream white, most conspicu- 

 ously so ill J . Tongue long, sparsely scaled. Vertex dark brown. 

 Face cream white. Thorax and tegiihe. purplish-brown. Fore wings 

 almost black, with rich purplish gloss, and sparsely sprinkled with white 

 scales. On the costa back of the apex is a small, irregularly triangular, 

 cream white spot, and a \&^ scattered scales of the same colour form an 

 obscure outer border. In the cell near its upper margin are two some- 

 what indefinite, cream-coloured dots in line, with a third one below and 

 slightly back of the one nearest the base. Cilia fuscous, shading out- 

 ward to gray. Lower wings shining silky, cinereous, almost silvery. 

 Abdomen pale brown, terminal segment banded with buff at posterior 

 margin. Lateral tufts buff, inconspicuous; anal tuft reddish-brown. 

 Under surface speckled with brown and cream. Legs brown, annulate 

 with cream white at the joints and middle of the tibiae. 



Alar expanse from i6 to 17 mm. 



Prof. Pettit thus describes the larva and its habits : 



* "The larva, when full grown, is three-eighths of an inch in length, and 

 quite slender. Its colour is dirty yellowish-white, with back and sides 

 marked by six reddish-brown, longitudinal stripes, all of which extend the 

 entire length from the thoracic shield to the caudal extremity, except the 

 pair on dorsum, which unite on last segment and terminate there. Last 



