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the costal edge concave : it is broadest in the middle of the wing and termi- 

 nates in a point, just beneath which is a black or dark brown dot encircled 

 with white or roseate white. Towards tlie apex of the wing is a semicircular, 

 testaceous, costal patch, margined with white or roseate white. The apical 

 portion of the wing is dusted freely with testaceous, and at the base of the 

 cilia, near the anal angle are one or two black dots. Cilia testaceous, with a 

 white j)atch beneath the tip having a central dark brownish cilial line, and a 

 white or roseate white patch at the anal angle. 



Antennse dark brown, slightly annulated with shining white. Head whitish, 

 tinted with fuscous. Labial palpi white; second joint with three blackish 

 rings, one at the base, one in the middle and one near the tip; terminal joint 

 with four blackish rings, one at base, two in the middle and one at the ex- 

 treme tip. 



.My fViend Mr. Benj. D. Walsh, i)f Rock Island, Illinois, writes to 

 lue that •' the larva mines a cabbage-like gall, brassicoides^ peculiar t(t 

 Sallx lowjifolla, and a pine-cone-like g.iU on S'llix cordata named 

 atrobiloidcn by Osten Sacken." The ornamentation of the imago is 

 similar to that ot" G. roiieosuffusrjla the larva of which inhabits the 

 fruit-panicles of Sumach. Imago occurs August 1st, 15th. 



Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh, Rock Island, 111. 



Gelechia Salicifungiella n. s. — Fore wings red, irregularly marked with whit- 

 ish. Near tlie base is a whitish band pDWilered with dark fuscous, which curves 

 across the fold, including the inner margin, and reaches the middle of the 

 wing; the part beneath the fold is tinged witli reddish and sometimes with 

 pale brownish. Adjoining this band exteriorly, is a dark brownish-red, curved 

 band, which does not cross the fold. On the costa are three small white spots, 

 one near the tip, one about the middle and one exterior to the brownish-red 

 band. The margin of the wing is powdered with dark fuscous. Cilia red. 

 Hind wings dark gray, cilia grayish fuscous. 



Head reddish. Antennse black, annulated with white. Labial palpi pale red; 

 second joint with two blackish rings; terminal joint with three black rings 

 and a black dot at base, extreme tip black. 



The larva mines the same gaW, brassicoulea, as G. fungivorfJlu. Mr. 

 Walsh bred six specimens, of which he was kind enough to send me 

 three. Although /itiujivorena is tinged with roseate in the white 

 markings, I can perceive no tendency in the eight specimens of this 

 imago, that ^Ir. Walsh has so liberally sent me, to merge into the or- 

 namentation of S(dlcifun(jidla. Certainly the character of the mark- 

 ings is the same in each, and it is possible that we have here but a 

 single species. The imago occurs August 3d — 13th. 



Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh. 



