THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 23 



mounding the trees well up with earth, two or three feet high, early in 

 June others brush the trunk and main branches over with soft soap, 

 reduced with water so as to bring it to about the consistence of paint. 



A NEW SPECIES OF CEMIOSTOMA. 

 ( Micro-Lepidopteni) Thieina. ) 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KV. 



[Some little time ago Mr. Chambers sent us a specimen of the insect 

 referred to in the following communication, and desired our opinion respect- 

 ing its specific position. Being unable to give any definite opinion on the 

 matter, as we know but little of the Micro-Lepidoptera, we sent his note 

 and specimen to Mr. Stainton, the great English authority on the Tineina. 

 He very kindly examined the specimen, and communicated his views 

 respecting it, through us, as noticed below. — Ed. C. E.] 



Your letter reached me just as I was starting to an adjoining county 

 where a term of Court has detained me until now. As you request, I send 

 a notice of the Cemiostoma for the Canadian Entomologist. I am 

 satisfied that it is a new species, and call it C. Albrfla. It is of a glistening 

 snowy white. There is a small tuft on the head, — the antennae pale fuscus 

 with the apex and basal joint, white. On the costa beyond the middle is a 

 pale golden streak, dark margined on both sides, obliquely placed, pointing 

 towards the anal angle, but not produced to it : towards the apex, on the 

 costa, is another larger pale golden spot, with slightly diverging sides, but 

 faintly dark margined posteriorly, though distinctly so anteriorly. The 

 apical spot is shining silvery gray metallic with very distinct black margins 

 anteriorly and posteriorly ; behind it. at the base of the cilise, is an indis- 

 tinct pale golden streak, which on the costal margin touches a small fuscus 

 spot in the cilia, but which does not touch the dorsal margin. There is a 

 minute indistinct fuscus spot at the apex of the cilise. Abdomen white, 

 banded above with golden fuse us. 



This would seem to be intermediate between C, Susinetla, Higa, and 

 C. Spartifoliella, Stainton, approaching more nearly to the former. Possibly 

 it may prove to be what the late Mr. Walsh would have termed a " phyto- 

 phagic species," or variety of the former. I have never seen either of those 

 species, and I compare this insect only with the descriptions of those 

 species contained in " Stainton's Tineina."' The description there given 

 of Susinetta is very brief, and Albella differs from it in not having the 



