188 GEO. r>. HULST. 



red spot within basal line, rarely washed with reddish ; lines distinct, brokenly 

 shaded dentate, the basal oblique, the outer parallel with outer margin and near 

 it. Hind wings dark fuscous. 



Canada, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Vir- 

 ginia, Texas, Colorado, Utah, California. From Texas I hove re- 

 ceived it in August and Septenjber. 



Mr. Ragonot makes this a synonym of obUtella Zell. It seems 

 sufficiently distinct, however, to be called a variety of that species. 



Clemens says : " Early in October I found the puppe of this insect 

 at Niagara Falls, on the Canada side, under shelter of loosened ]3or- 

 tions of the bark of the American Elm. They were enclosed in a 

 cocoon of silk mixed with particles of bark. On the same tree I 

 took a number of larvie which were descending the tree to undergo 

 pupation. Head as broad as the body and dark green. Body dark 

 green, between the segments yellowish, and dotted with yellow ; first 

 rings with two black dots on the sides." 



2. H. melliiiella Grt., U. S. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, iv, 702, 1878; N. 

 A. Ento. i, 11, pi. ii, fig. 11, 1879. — Expands 15 — 19 mm. Fore wings blackish 

 fuscous with a pale undefined costal shading; interior line white ; a yellow shade 

 spot beyond the line on internal margin ; two separate, very small dark discal 

 dots ; exterior line near the margin, even, narrow and indistinct white ; base of 

 the wing yellowish ; anterior line not continued to costa ; hind wings very pale 

 fuscous, silky, with concolorous fringes; head and thorax faded ochreous. 



Texas. 



The above is Mr. Grote's description. Mr. Ragonot, who had 

 seen Mr. Grote's type in the British Museum, sent me under this 

 name an insect which does not accord with Mr. Grote's description. 

 Indeed, the description of Mr. Grote accords exactly with what Mr. 

 Ragonot has sent me as oehrimacxdella Rag. The insect sent as mellin- 

 ella Grt. has erect, long palpi, ochreous wings, stained and peppered 

 with blackish ; lines whitish, the inner indistinct, except near inner 

 margin, edged on inner margin with a spot of reddish, this edged basally 

 with black ; outer line distinct, twice dentate, with orange ochreous 

 outer band ; there is also more or less of ochreous orange along inner 

 maroin. I think ochrimaciilella must be a synonym o? melUneUa, and 

 that the lighter species must be unnamed, l)ut till furthei' evidence 

 in that direction I must rest upon Mr. Ragonot's determination of 

 my specimens; his ochrimaculella has the palpi much less erect, the 

 end member nearly horizontal, the second thickly scaled. This ac- 

 cords also better with Mr. Grote's description, and his idea of what 



