184 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



NOTHRIS. 



N. BiMACDLELLA, Cham. 

 Originally described from Colorado, since received from Texas. 



N. ciTRiFOLiELLA, Cham. 

 It is possible that this species may be already known in Europe, but 

 1 have not been able to find any account of it. If known, then it ought 

 to be found in Mr. Stainton's "Tineina of Southern Europe," a work 

 which is probably not to be found in this country — at least it is not 

 found in some of the best libraries, as, e. g., at Washington, Cambridge 

 and Boston. It is important that it should be known in this country, 

 and I therefore describe it as a new species ; since, if it is already known, 

 the accounts of it are not accessible in this country. Yet since the 

 larva feeds upon the leaves and leaf buds of the orange, the species 

 can not be indigenous, if the orange is its only food plant, and as 3'et 

 none other is known ; it will, therelore, probably be found in Southern 

 Europe, if it has not been already. I have received it from Prof. Com- 

 stock of the U. S. Agricultural Department for identification and de- 

 scription in the forthcoming volume of the report of that department, 

 from which this account is taken. Prof. Comstock informs me that 

 the young larvffi feed on the leaf buds, and the older ones on the 

 leaves which they fold, and within which fold they live and pupate, 

 and that it is committing serious ravages in the orange groves of 

 Florida. But he will no doubt furnish fuller and more adequate in- 

 formation in the Report above referred to. 



A letter from Mr, Stainton (received since the foregoing was 

 written) informs me that a Nothris feeding on leaf buds of 

 orange, is entirely new to him, but that this species, from my brief 

 notes of it in a letter to him, is quite in the style of AT. Durd- 

 hamella^ Sta. I know Durdhamella only l)y the brief description in 

 Ins. Brit., v. 3, and the resemblance of this species to it had already 

 occurred to me; but the statement in Mr. Stainton's des^cription of 

 Durdhamella, " beyond the middle is a cloudy, fuscus fiiscia, and the 

 apex of the hind margin is dark fuscus," does not apply to this spe- 

 cies, and there are also other less striking difl'erences, Durdhamella 

 "has occured on Durdham Downs, near Bristol, and at Teignmouth, 

 in England" (loc. cit.), where it is not likely that it fed on orange 

 leaves, and if this species is the same, it must have other food plants. 

 Abdomen, ochreous, dusted with fuscus. Legs, ochreous, stained with 

 fuscus on their anterior surfaces. Al. e.*;., ll-16th inch. 



