150 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



2. B. capitealbclla. N. sp. 



Face and tuft snowy white ; antennae silvery white ; anterior wings 

 snowy white, with a few scattered ochreous brown scales about the 

 middle of the basal half. Just before the middle is a pale yellowish 

 costal streak passing obliquely backwards to the middle of the wing and 

 widest on the costa, where it is dusted with brown. A similar but less 

 oblique streak just behind the middle. On the dorsal margin, opposite 

 the space between these streaks, is a rather large yellowish spot internally 

 margined by a small raised patch of dark brown scales. On the base of 

 the costal ciliae is a patch of pale yellowish dusted with brownish • a 

 streak of the same hue around the base of the dorsal c^iae, containing a 

 minute brown spot at the beginning of the ciliae and another at the apex 

 of the wing. Ciliae white, flecked with brownish at the extreme tip. 



Alar ex. a little over ^ inch. A single specimen taken in Kentucky. 

 Larva and food plant unknown. 



j. B. pomifoliclla, Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci„ Phila., i860, p. 

 211. 



This is our commonest species. It feeds on the leaves of Apple 

 trees. Wings whitish dusted with brown. A brownish costal streak 

 widest on the costa passes obliquely across the wing to the dorsal ciliae. 



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No apical spot. 



4. B. obscurafascielia. N. sp. 



Face yellowish white ; tuft reddish orange, becoming almost rufous on 

 top ; antennae yellowish silvery, dotted with brown above ; anterior wings 

 pale golden at the base, deepening towards the apex, with two tolerably 

 distinct but not well denned costal white spots or streaks before the 

 middle, the first continuing as a very indistinct band obliquely across the 

 wing and slightly angulated posteriorly near the dorsal margin, where it is 

 bounded behind by a distinct dark brown spot containing raised scales* 

 At near the apical third is an indistinct whitish fascia with a few dark 

 brown scales before it on and near the costa. Ciliae pale stramineous. 

 Apex and ciliae sparsely flecked with pale fuscous. A dark brown hinder 

 marginal line in the ciliae. Under surface and legs yellowish silvery with 

 the anterior surface of the tarsi annulate with fuscous. Alar ex. about ^ 

 inch. Larva and food plant unknown. Captured May 23rd. 



