29(? Cincinnati Society of Natural Histo7^y. 



Keceived from Mr. Gooclell, of Amherst, Massachusetts, who informs 

 me that the larva feed on Epigcea reiJens.'^ 



3. G. CRESCENTiFASCiELLA, Cham. 



This species was described from Texas. I have since taken a single 

 specimen in Kentuck}^; and Mr. Goodell's collection contains three 

 specimens from Massachusetts. The markings are much more pro- 

 nounced on these three specimens than on an}' others that I have seen, 

 and the whole insect is much darker. In one of the three the wing be- 

 comes almost black before the fascia, and is also much darker behind 

 it, anfl all of them are marked with three or four small, brown spots on 

 the disc, and one or two brown costal spots are distinctly margined 

 behind with white, I have no doubt it is the same species: still it is 

 a little remarkable that the northern and eastern specimens should thus 

 be so much darker and more distinctly marked than western and south- 

 ern ones. 



Mr. Goodell's collection also contains G. apicistrigella, Cham., G. 

 roseosuffusella, Clem.; and G. agrimoniella, Clem., besides numerous 

 species of Ihe genus, some of which are probably new, whilst others 

 appear to be old acquaintances, which, however, I am not now pre- 

 pared to identify. 



It contains also the following species not belonging to Gelechia, viz: 

 Incurvaria mediostriatella^ Clem., Nothris eupatoriiella^ Cham., Litho- 

 colletis clemenseUa .Chum., Cosmopteryx gemmiferella, Clem., Dasycera 

 nonstrigella^ Cham., Dasycera newmanella, Clem., (Ecophora argen- 

 ticinctella, Clem., Butalis matutella, Clem., and one or two other 

 species of Butalis not identified. Dry ope murtfeldtella, Cham., Adela 

 coruscifasciella^ Cham., which Lord Walsingham says is A. riding- ' 

 sella, Clem., Hyale corylieUa, Cham., Batrachedra striolata, Zell, 

 Anarsia trimacidella, Cham., besides numerous other species that I 

 have neither time nor opportunit}^ to ideutifv. 



* Since the foregoing remarks were written, I have received, from Mr. Gooclell, 

 specimens of the hibernating larvae. From their size (less than half an inch Idng) 

 as compared A^ith that of the moth, I doubt if they are fully grown ; they probablj would ,v 

 feed again next spring. The head and next segment are dark stramineous, the anterior, 

 margin of the head,' and the trophi being ferruginous ; the posterior margin of the next 

 {prothoracic) segtae^t.is dark brown, and it has a dark brown spot on each side. The re- 

 maining segments are pale stramineous or wlutish, siriped longitudinally witli pink or 

 reddish stripes; som'e specimens being much paler than others; there are the usual 

 tubercular spots. The'larvfe hibernate un,der a silken web, and in feeding, sometimes the 

 side of a leaf is curled over, and sometimes several leaves are fastened together by the 

 web. 



