NO.1208. NEW SPECIES OF TINEID MOTHS— BUSCK. 243 



BUCCULATRIX Zeller. 

 BUCCULATRIX IVELLA, new species. 



Antennse silvery gray with darker annulations; eyecaps large, 

 speckled with light brown. Palpi o])solete. Face smooth, white. 

 Tuft on head in front Avhitc, above speckled with light brown. Tho- 

 rax fuscous. Forewings light ferrugineous gray, mottled with brown 

 and fuscous. At beginning of costal cilia is a longitudinal streak of 

 dark fuscous; opposite on the dorsal edge another similar streak, and 

 at apex a third one. A line from base of wing to this last streak just 

 above the fold is light gray, unmottled, while on the fold is a much 

 speckled line; l)oth of these two longitudinal lines, however, are in 

 some specimens interrupted and effaced. Cilia light gray; headwing 

 and cilia silvery gray. Underside of l)ody light ^^ellowish, legs yellow, 

 tarsi nearly white annulated with black. 



Alar expanse, 6.5 to 7.5 mm. 



Described from 12 specimens, bred from hxi fruteacens^ collected by 

 Dr. Dyar at Palm Beach, Florida. 



Type.—l^o. 4953, U.S.N.M. 



The larva at first mines- the leaves; afterwards it feeds unprotected 

 on the underside of the leaves. In the latter period it is dirty white 

 with l)lack hairs, head yellow with black eye marks and brown mandi- 

 bles, tubercles polished white. When full grown about 5.5 mm. long. 

 It reminds one in general appearance very much of the larva of Plu- 

 tella inaculipennis Curtis {crudferaruin Zeller). The cocoon is of the 

 usual Bucculatrix form, pure white, about 0.5 mm. long. 



BEDELLIA Stainton. 

 BEDELLIA MINOR, new species. 



If I had received the types of this species for determination, I should 

 surely have pronounced them small specimens of the common somnu- 

 lenteUa Stainton, and the knowledge of its food-plant would naturall)^ 

 strengthen this belief. 



Fortunatel}', however, I received larvas in all stages, and although 

 they also at a superficial examination might be taken for ^omnulentella 

 there are distinct and constant differences aside from the smaller size, 

 and it is undoubted!}' a distinct form, developed through long isolation 

 from the cosmopolitan species. 



Antenna as long as forewing, white with black annulations, basal 

 joint enlarged, with large dense pecten beneath, 3"cllowish speckled 

 with black. Labial palpi short, drooping, yellow. Face whitish. 

 Tuft on head reddish yellow with tips of hairs fuscous. Thorax whitish 

 3'ellow. Forewing light grayish yellow sprinkled with blaci< and fus- 

 cous scales, most thickly on apical two-thirds; bai-ial one-third onl}' 



