•238 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Brown, microscopically sprinkled obscurely with whitish scales. Al. 

 ex. h inch. Season, August, 



G. plutdla. N. sp. 



Palpi simple, slender ; third Joint more than half as long as the second, 

 and pointed. 



Face and palpi white ; vertex pale yellowish, with a dusky central 

 spot ; antennae pale yellowish ; patagia and costal half of the primaries, 

 almost to the tip, creamy white ; thorax and dorsal half of primaries and 

 the tip dark brown ; the whitish portion of the primaries is widest at the 

 base, and the dark brown portion at the apex, and the wliitish part sends 

 two short, oblique projections into the brown one just before the middle 

 and the other just behind it. AL ex. yi inch. Season, August. 



The ornamentation of the wings bears considerable resemblance to 

 that of Pliitella crnciferarnm, except that the colors are reversed. 



G. sella. JV. sp. 



Second Joint of the palpi thickened beneath towards the tip, but not at all 

 brush-like; third Joint more than half as long as the secojid. 



Head yellowish white, sometimes with a wide longitudinal brownish 

 streak on the vertex. Palpi very pale yelloAvish, with the second joint 

 externally brown and internally streaked or sprinkled with brown, and the 

 third joint, with the tip and a band around the middle, dark brown. 

 Thorax and primaries pale ochreous gray ; under the microscope pale 

 ochreous yellow, somewhat dusted with fuscous. There is a velvety dark 

 brown spot on the fold, not far from the base, behind Avhich is usually a 

 dark brown dorsal streak, extending more than half across the wing, 

 perpendicular to the margin, placed before the middle, but sometimes it 

 is represented only by a triangular spot on the fold, and which does not 

 touch the margin ; and there is another small spot of the same hue at the 

 end of the cell, and surrounded by a paler annulus ; base of the costal 

 margin and six or seven small spots along the costa dark brown, the last 

 of which is just before the ciliae ; and there is a narrow ochreous basal - 

 streak just within the costal margin ; occasionally the sj^ots along the 

 costa are absent. Al. ex. y^ inch. Season, July and September. It is a 

 handsome species. 



G. trimaculella. A^. sp. 



