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from G, purpiirifascia by the t. p. line being slightly arcuate superiorly. 

 In size and ornamentation the Californian species rather resembles rutilay 

 which wants the tubercle. 



46. Admetovis oxymonis Grote, Bui. B. S. N. S., i, p. 133, pi. 4^ fig- 5- 

 Sierra Nevada, Hy. Edwards, Ksq., No. 2733. 



4y. Heliitphila pallens [Linn]. 



California, Mr. Behrens, No. 10 [red label]. 



48. Hdiopliila phragmiiidkola [Guenee]. 

 Sauzalito, Sept. 25th, Mr. Behrens, No. 169. 



4g. Ufeus plicatus Grote, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., i6, p. 241. 

 California, No. 4414, Hy. Edwards, Esq. 



5a 2A^stavpoda hirtipes Grote, List N. Am. Noct., p. 68. 

 California. Hy. Edwards, Esq., No. 3484. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 (Continued from pajre 198.) 

 A6PIDISCA. 



A, diospyriella. N. sp. 



This species was bred from minute mines in the leaves of Persimmon 

 trees (Diospyros virgmiana), gathered in great abundance at the " Bee 

 Spring '' camp of the Kentucky Geological Survey, in Edmondson 

 County, a few miles west of the Mammoth Cave. I have never met with 

 it in Nortliern Kentucky, where the Persimmon tree also grows, but is 

 comparatively rare. 



Head and thorax, and a little more than the basal halt of the primaries 

 pale leaden gray, with a metallic, almost silvery lustre ; antennae fuscous 

 above, silvery fuscous below ; just behind the middle of the wing are two 



