506 [Decembkr 



Head and face white. Palpi white: second joint externally dark fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous. 



This is an European insect, and does not differ from the descriptions 

 and figures of European authors. I have never before, however, met 

 with a specimen of it and do not know the circumstances of its capture. 



A single specimen. Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila. 



COLEOPHORA Zeller. 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., March 186.3, p. 6. 

 Coleophora cratipennella n. s.— Fore wings white, striped along the veins 

 with dark ochreous. From the base of the wing are three stripes, one along the 

 submedian. median and a rather broad one between the costal and subcostal vein. 

 In the middle of tne disk is another strijie, and about the middle of the wing, 

 begins a stripe along the subcostal vein which subdivides into two branches, 

 terminating on thecosta; beneath these are two other stripes, one along the 

 inner margin from the tip, the other in the middle of the wing. Cilia ochreous. 

 Hind wings fuscous, cilia yellowish-fuscous. 



Antenna white, annulated with dark ochreous. Labial palpi white, diirk 

 ochreous along the sides. 



A single specimen. Virginia. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phila. 



GELECHIA. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., March 186.3, p. 10. 

 GelecMa gallaegenitella. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., May 1864, p. 420. 



Since the description of this insect was given, Mr. Benj. D. Walsh 

 has forwarded to me another specimen, under the impression- that it 

 was a distinct species. The differences in ornamentation between the 

 two. and another in the collection of the Entomological Society of 

 Philadelphia, deserve critical notice. 



The original description of gallxgintdia ought to be so modified as 

 to read, instead of " Fore wings white, but so freely dusted with black 

 as almost to obscure the ground color, especially between the bands": 

 Fore wings black, freely dusted with white. 



The following is a description of the specimen last received from 

 Mr. Beuj. D. Walsh, the larva of which mines the same gall as/inu/i- 

 i-orc/lu, the cabbage-like gall, /jramcov-V/es, peculiar to S<ili.rlon</i/"/ni. 



Fore wings dark gray, dusted with wliite. At the base of the wing is nn 

 oblique, blackish-brown band, which terminates on the fold in a little tuft of 

 brown scales. The band is margined exteriorly with whitish, and the wing 

 along the base of the inner margin is pale gray. The middle of the wing has 



