lot THE CA^TAUIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



of costa. Cilia long, fine, concolorous with wing, with leaden tinge ; 

 on fore wings crossed with Ijlack line. Legs shining pale buff, more or 

 less conspicuously mottled with leaden gray ; hind tibiie clothed with 

 long silken hairs, in some sjiccimens marked with a dash or spot of gray 

 on outer side; tarsi annulate. Alai- expanse ii to 13 mm. Feeds in the 

 berries of Nightshade (Solanuni nigrum), eating the pulp and preventing 

 the seeds from maturing. 



Larva : 8 mm. long by 2 mm. in diameter, being rather 

 stout. Cylindrical, incisions shallow, slightly larger at posterior end, 

 where it terminates somewhat bluntly. Colour pale, translucent, 

 greenish yellow, with five interrupted, irregularly margined, longi- 

 tudinal, crimson stripes, lateral one composed of a row of small 

 spots. Head small, cordate, only little more than one-half the width of 

 the abdominal segments, very dark shining brown. Cervical shield 

 almost covering the narrow first joint, of same colour as the head. On 

 dorsum of eighth joint is a broad, purplish, subcutaneous spot. Tho- 

 racic legs minute, pro-legs also short, corresponding in colour to general 

 surface. One annual brood, often found in two-thirds of the berries. 

 Pupa, very slightly inclosed or merely attached within fold of leaf or in 

 the berry cluster, rather stout, oblong, bright golden-brown, with short 

 wing-sheaths, and has somewhat the appearance of dipterous pupae. 

 Imago in ten days — often not appearing until the last of October or early 

 in November, suggesting the probability of an earlier brood in some 

 other fruit or substance. 



The genus Eucatoptiis of the Gelechiadae, characterized by Lord Wal- 

 singham in his work on West Indian IMicro-Lepidgptera, is said to be 

 "closely allied to Aristotelia, Hiib. (Ergatis, Hein.), from which it is 

 distinguished by the costal hair pencil of the ^ ." Under this genus His 

 Lordship describes three new s]3ecies and includes Gelechia rnbidella 

 Clem. (G. rubensella., Cham.). I am indebted to Lord AValsingham and 

 his Entomological assistant, Mr. Durrant, for the generic determination of 

 all the species described, as well as for much kind assistance on other 

 forms. 

 Gelechia pcrsicceella, Murt. 



In this connection I wish to transcribe the description of a new 

 Tineid of economic importance, of which an account was published in a 

 paper on " Some Insects of the Year," in the Report of the State Agri- 

 cultural College of Michigan for 1899, by Prof. R. H. Pettit, Assistant 



