THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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Fig. 1. — Mine of .Y. crattegifoliella 



NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF NEPTICULA 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 



(LEPIDOPTERA). 



BY ANNETTE F. BRAUN. CINCINNATI, O. 



Nepticula cratapgifoliella Clemens. 

 Nepticula cratcegifoUeUa Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., I, 83, 

 1861; Tin. No. Am., 173, 1872; Dyar, List. N. A. Lep., No. 6194, 

 1902. 



Mines of this species, which Clemens named from mine and 

 larva on Crataegus parvifolia Ait., occur at Cincinnati on Cratcegus 



punctata Jacq. The mines on this 

 species of Cratcegus sometimes aver- 

 age about 2 mm. in width during 

 the later portion of the mine, but 

 are more often a little narrower, and 

 the frass line is often rather broad. 

 In other respects they agree well 

 with Clemens' description of the 

 mine. The larva, as Clemens notes, 

 is bright green. The cocoon is 

 reddish brown, broader at the anterior end, not much depressed, 

 The imago may be described as follows: 



Palpi pale ocherous. Tuft ocherous, faintly tinged with red. 

 Antennae ocherous, partly suffused with fuscous, eye-caps ocherous. 

 Thorax and fore wings ocherous, the extreme edge of the costa 

 near the base purplish fuscous, and a broad purplish fuscous band 

 tt the apex of the wing. Beyond this band the cilia are pale 

 ocherous, giving the appearance of an ocherous apex preceded by 

 a dark band. Cilia opposite the ends of the band concolorous 

 with it. Hind wings and cilia pale grey. 



Legs ocherous. Abdomen purplish fuscous above, ocherous 

 eneath. 



Expanse: 3.5 mm. 



One specimen bred from a mine collected July 8th; the imago 



tppeared July 29th. The mines occur again more abundantly 



luring the last few days of August and the early part of September. 



I refer to this species a flown specimen collected by Mr. Fred 



Marloff, Oak Station, Pa., June 5th, 1910. In this specimen the 



January, 1014 



