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290. The species was named and described by me while in Colorado — 

 away from libraries and collections — and the previous use of 4-maculella 

 was forgotten. 



G. solaniella, ante v. 5, p. 176, and 7'. 4, p. igj. 



The former accounts of this species are so meagre that I annex the 

 following description : 



Palpi simple ; second joint more than half as long as the first. 



Palpi grayish brown externally, more yellowish internally ; entire insect 

 otherwise grayish brown and ochreous intermixed, microscopically dusted 

 with white ; the ochreous and brown on the primaries take more or less 

 the form of narrow longitudinal streaks, and the relative proportions of 

 each color vary in different specimens, some being distinctly ochreous and 

 others nearly brown. Al. ex. tV to half an inch. Kentucky. 



Two specimens which I have received from St. Louis, from Miss 

 Murtfeldt, are paler and more gray, with a distinct blackish dot on the 

 fold about midway of the wing, and another small one between it and the 

 costal margin which I have not detected in any of my specimens. These 

 two specimens are also smaller than my own, but that they are of the same 

 species is shown not only by their resemblance in other respects, but by 

 the habits and appearance of the larvae. The following account of the 

 larvae is furnished to me by Miss Murtfeldt, and agrees with my own 

 observations, except that so far as I have observed, the entire larva turns 

 blue when it is mature, while Miss Murtfeldt remarks it only of the first 

 three segments. I have published a very brief account of the mine and 

 larva, ante v. 5, /. ipj, and the following is Miss Murtfeldt's account : 



" The larva mines and crumples the leaves of Solatium Carolinense, 

 turning them brown. Inside of the mine the larva inhabits a tough, silk- 

 lined gallery, formed externally ofTrass. This gallery extends around 

 the edge of the leaf until the latter appears as if a gathering string -had 

 been run between the tissues. The larva is nearly cylindrical, about 0.40 

 inch, in length, of a translucent green color, with transparent piliferous 

 spots arranged in the usual transverse rows on the thoracic segments, and 

 in the form of a trapezoid on the abdominal segments. Head and cervical 

 shield bright brown, polished and edged anteriorly with whitish green. 

 The thoracic segments turn blue when the larva is mature. Legs and 

 prolegs short, yellowish green. The larva leaves the mine and pupates 



