NO.120S. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS— BUSCK. 233 



half of costal edg-o of forewing- l)rowii. Forewing greenisli grav. 

 thickly suffused with dark fuscous scales. Five indistinct dark fus- 

 cous spots on disk, one on fold at onc-foui'th from l)asc, one above and 

 one below fold in middle of disk and one above and one l)elow fold at 

 end of disk; the latter smallest, but darker and more distinct. At 

 beginning of costal cilia a very indistinct, doul)le, transverse, whitish 

 V-,shaped line and along apical edge (! or T small black dots. Ilind- 

 wing dark bluish gray with silvery reflections, half transparent, \ cins 

 darker, cilia gray. 



Abdomen purple; entire under side black; legs black; postci'ior 

 ti))i{i3 above yellowish. 



Venation. — Forewing: 12 veins; 2 and 8 stalked. Kindwing: 8 

 veins, 3 and -4 short-stalked; 5 approximate, <> and 7 connate. 



Alar expanse, 16 mm. 



Described from two males and one female reared from ('(mdalia 

 ferrea, collected by Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida. 



Type.—^o. 4940, U.S.N.M. 



Dr. Dyar says: 



The larva at first stitches together any overlapping leaves of its food j)lant; later 

 it folds over a leaf, and finally pupates in such a folded leaf. The mature larva has 

 a reddish head with a whitish la]>rum; body somewhat flattened, green, with reddish 

 cervical shield, a green dorsal and subdorsal line; tubercles and a lateral dash on 

 joints 3 and 4 black. 



Family CECOPIIORIDtF. 



DEPRESSARIA Haworth. 

 DEPRESSARIA AMYRISELLA, new species. 



(Plate I, fig. S.) 



Antennre f finely serrate beneath, l)asal joint with pecten, dark 

 metallic greenish ])rown. Labial palpi second joint rough beneath, 

 3'ell()wish white with ])lack base and black scales intermixed, toward 

 apex with a rose or ])rick red tinge; terminal joint shorter, yellowish 

 with l>lack tip. Tongue well developed, whitish. Face yellow with 

 a few brown scales; head with erect scales, yellow at base, pui-plish 

 black toward tip, tips reddish white. Thorax yellowish brown with 

 violaceous scales intermixed and with a transverse crest of six tufts of 

 raised scales. Forewing dark violaceous brown with sparse ])la(k 

 scales; extreme dorsal base purplish black, at l)asal third a collection 

 of purplish-black scales; at end of cell a small round white dot, black- 

 margined on ])oth sides. Costal and apical edge lighter l)rown, with 

 five costal and six to eight smaller apical black dots. Cilia yellowish 

 brown, llindwing light shining yellowish l)rown, edge blackish, cilia 

 lighter. It belongs to the section with veins 2 and 3 in forewing 



