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and tentiforiii ; and the leaf is completely folded over. The larva 

 i.s green and of the cylindrical type, and spins a thin ovoid silken 

 cocoon, fastened to the leaf above and below. Mr. Chambers (Can. 

 Ent., iii, 84, 1871) described the larvae and mine of this species nnder 

 the mistaken impression that they belonged to his L. virginiella. 



LiifliocoIletiN afliiiis Frey and Boll. 

 Lithocolletis affinis Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxvii, 222, 1876; xxxix, 270. 

 187«.— Walsingliam, Ins. Life, ii, 51, 1889.— Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.. 1902, No. 6314. 



The head, thorax and forewings are of a uniformly dark reddish saffron. Face 

 and palpi shining white, legs whitish gray. The tarsi of the first pair have dis- 

 tinct blackish bands. The second pair are spotted with blackish, the last }>air 

 are lighter, marked with brownish black. The dorsal side of the abdomen is 

 dark gray, the ventral side whitish. 



Tlie feebly shining forewings have thiee fascite. at the basal third, at the mid- 

 dle, and at three-quarters of the wing length respectively. All the fasciae are 

 faintly dark margined toward the base, the first straight, the second slightly 

 concave, the third feebly angulated. Before the apex there is ii white costal 

 streak, without any dark margining. The cilia are of tlie ground color. 



Hindwings rather dark gray, their cilia lighter brownish. 



Frey and Boll have thus described the species. 



Found in Texas, where the larvie make underside mines on a 

 species of Lonicera, and on a species of Stpnphoricarpos. 



The ab.sence of any dark dusting in the apex of the wing distin- 

 guishes the imago of this species from that of trUa'nianella Cham. 



I..ithocolleti»» mariicella Chamber.«. 

 Plate XXII, Fig. 23. 

 Lithocolletis marixella Chambers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sei., ii, 99, 1875. — Can. Ent., xi, 

 92, 1879.— Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, x, 201, 1882.— Dyar, 

 Bull. 52. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6315. 

 Syn. viariella Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 190, 1891. 



Face and palpi whitish ; last joints of the palpi darkened externally. Anteniite 

 grayish white, annulate with brown. Tuft reddish orange. 



Thorax and forewings golden brown. Two white fasciae, one at the basal 

 fourth, and the other at the middle of the wing length, both bent outwaid near 

 the median line, and margined with dark brown internally. At the beginning 

 of the costal cilia is a white streak nearly meeting an opposite dorsal streak, both 

 dark margined internally. A curved white streak, margined before by a daiker 

 shaiie, encloses the apex, and sometimes extends through the cilia on the dorsal 

 margin. The apex of the wing is sometimes darkened by a few brown scales. 

 Cilia a shade paler than the wings. Expanse 8-8.5 mm. 



Hindwings gray, with reddish cilia. Abdomen brownish gray. Hind legs 

 brownish red ; the other two pair whitish, banded with black. 



TBAN6. AM. ENT. soc. . XXXIV. (40) OCTOBER, 1908. 



