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Tapestry-moth ; Tube-dwelling Clothes-moth. (Trichophaga, or 

 Tinea, tapetzella L.) Figure 147a. 



This destructive moth doubtless also occurs, but we did not obtain 

 it. Its tube is not a portable case, but rather a long, crooked tunnel 

 or gallery. The moth has the basal half of the fore wings black ; 

 the distal half white. 



Leaf- miner of Sweet Potato. {? Bedellia minor Busck, t. Busck.) 

 Figure 148. 



A minute tineid, about 3 mm long, plain silvery, with the tips of 

 the wings curved upward and fringed with long scales, whose larva 

 mine's in the leaves of sweet potato, causing irregular, blister-like, 

 yellowish spots, 2-4 mm in diameter. Imago emerged Aug. 26, from 

 leaves mailed from Bermuda by Miss Victoria Hayward. Mr. Busck, 

 who has examined it, identifies it doubtfully as the above species, 

 described from Florida, on morning glory. 



Several other undetermined tineids were sent by Miss Hayward. 



Gelechia bosquella Chamb., Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey, 

 iv, p. 87. Wals., Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, x, p. 178. 



This small tineid sent by Mr. Louis Mowbray in October, is 

 grayish black and silvery white ; on the wings the silvery white 

 covers a basal patch, the posterior margin, and two small costal spots; 

 legs banded with the two colors. Length, 6"' m . Identified by Mr. 

 Busck. 



Grass Web-ioorm. ( Crambus laqueatellus Clem. ?) 



Mr. H. G. Dyar has identified one specimen, in poor condition, 

 taken in summer by Mr. T. G. Gosling, as probably this species, but 

 it may be some other closely related species, for it is too imperfect 

 for accurate determination. 



The following Lepidoptera, collected in Bermuda in April by the 

 Challenger Expedition, were recorded by A. G. Butler, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (5), xiii, p. 183-188, 1884 : 



Leucania antica Walker, Catal. Ex. Lepid., ix, p. 100, 1856.* 



* According to Walker its colors are as follows : — Thorax with several brown 

 bands ; abdomen very pale fawn color ; fore wings with costa and interior bor- 

 der speckled with black, with some brown dots in the disk, with the usual 

 exterior band of black dots, more numerous than usual ; fore part of exterior 

 border brownish ; hind wings whitish, with black marginal dots. Length of 

 body, .5 inch ; of wings, 1 inch. " West coast of America." South American. 



