294 • AMERICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 



giiied on both sides; the corresponding dorsal streak is more prop- 

 erly called a spot, and is scarcely dark margined. The expanse is 

 6.5-8.2 mm. 



liilltocolletis diapliaiiella Frey and Boll. 

 Plate XXII, Fig. 1. 

 Lifhocolletis diaphanella Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxix, 265, 1878. — Dyar, 

 Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6277. 



Head, face, palpi and tuft snow white. Antennae %vhite, faintly annulate with 

 ochre-yellow; basal joint ochre-yellow. Tegulse snow white, thorax pale golden 

 yellow. Abdomen whitish gray; legs whitish, tarsi annulate with brown. 



Forewings pale golden brown, marks white. There is a broad basal streak 

 without any dark margining extending for more than two-fifths of the wing 

 length. It begins rather broad, and ends in a long point directed toward the 

 costa. Behind the middle of the wing there is a small, bent, very oblique costal 

 streak, faintly blackish margined toward the base. There is a similarly bent 

 but broader dorsal streak beginning nearer the base and pointing toward the first 

 costal streak. On the costa follow very small, faintly inwardly dark margined 

 streaks. A fourth one is indicated by a few white scales. At the hind angle is 

 an inwardly blackish margined white dorsal triangle. It apex extends between 

 the second and third costal streaks. From this, a line of blackish scales extends 

 toward the termen. Cilia whitish, with a blackish basal line. The latter only 

 extends around the apical part of the wing. [Expanse 6 mm.] 



Hiudwings light, yellowish gray, cilia whitish. 



This species, the habitat of which is given as Texas, is an under- 

 side miner on scrub oak. A peculiar characteristic of the mine, as 

 noted by Frey and Boll, is its transparent appeai'ance, when matui'e, 

 allowing the pupa to be plainly visible through the epidermis. 



The description is a translation of the original. 



There is a specimen of this species from Texas in the U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



liithocolIetiM iniiiiitellsi Frey and Boll. 

 Uthocolletis minutella Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxix, 263, 1878. — Dyar. 

 Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6276. 



Head and tuft pale golden brown, the latter mixed with white. Face and 

 palpi whitish; antennfe whitish, obscurely annulate with brown. 



Thorax pale golden brown, teguhe bordered with wliitish, abdomen gray, witli 

 a yellowish white tuft. Legs whitish, all the tarsi spotted with black. 



The pale golden brown (approaching the color of L. faginella) faintly shining 

 forewings have peculiar white markings. There is a short narrow basal streak 

 dark margined toward the costa, ending just before the two-fifths of the wing 

 length. The first costal streak beginning at two-fifths is placed very obliquely, 

 is dark margined toward the base, sharply bent at an angle in the fold, and is 

 then prolonged as a very short spur toward the dorsum and base. Beginning 

 under the apex of the basal streak, and extending toward the costal streak, is a 



