Tineina of the Central United States. 99 



of leaves of the Indiau currant or red waxberry {Symphoricarpus vul- 

 garis). I have not found it in the allied snowberry. 



L. Mariccella (n. sp.) 



Face and palpi white, terminal joint of the palpi brownish externally ; 

 tuft orange yellow; thorax and primaries golden; antenna? white, 

 annulate with brown ; primaries with two white fascia, one about the 

 basal fourth, the other about the middle, both distinctly dark margined 

 internally; before the cilia, a costal and opposite dorsal white streak, 

 nearly meeting on the median line, and dark margined internally ; 

 just before the apex, an oblique, very distinct white streak, sometimes 

 extending almost across the wing. No hinder marginal line ; cilia a 

 little paler than the wing. Al. ex., one fourth inch. 



Three specimens received from Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, of Kirk- 

 wood, St. Louis county. Mo., who informs me that they were bred from 

 larvse of the cylindrical group, making a tent mine on the under 

 surface of leaves of the Indian currant or red waxberry (Syin- 

 phoricarpus v]jlgaris). She has also sent me a specimen of the mined 

 leaf. The mine is larger than that of the preceding species, L. 

 symphoricarpceella, and so is the imago, and the two insects are not at 

 all likely to be mistaken for each other. This species is much more 

 likely to be mistaken, by the tyro, for L. ornatella, but is very readily 

 distinguished in the larval state by the following characters : the larva 

 of i. ornatella mines locust leaves, belongs to the flat group, and the mine 

 is flat on the under and upper surface indifterently, and it leaves the mine 

 to pupate ; while this species has a cylindrical larva, which mines only the 

 under surface, the mine being tentiform, and it pu})ates in a strong, white, 

 roundish or oblong cocoon within the mine. The imago is less brilliant 

 than that of ornatella, the tuft is larger, and orange or reddish orange, 

 while that of ornatella is maroon brown, and the face of ornatella is 

 brilliant metallic (like silver or polished steel, according to the 

 light), while the face of this insect is white; the thorax and base 

 of the wings of ornatella are rich maroon instead of golden, and 

 there is a distinct, maroon brown hinder marginal line, which is 

 wanting in this species. There are also other less striking differences. 

 Miss Murtfeldt, in whose honor I have named this species, sends me the 

 following notes of the mine and larva : 



"Larva found Oct. 25, making a tentiform mine on under side of 

 leaves of Symphoricarpvs vulgaris. Length one fourth inch ; diameter less 

 than one sixteenth, cylindrical orsubcyliudrical, tapering slightly both 



