LA R V.E OF MOTHS FROM COLORA DO—D Y. 1 R. 407 



GELECHIA RIBESELLA Chambers. 



Xay,y,a.— Head rounded, mouth large, projectinu-, clypeus hioh; 

 greenish luteous, shining, faintly brownish mottled, ocelli black in an 

 aggregated patch. Body cylindrical, normal, segments 3-annulate; 

 green, a not very bright, white, subdorsal line: shield large, faintly 

 luteous. Tubercles small, without plates, black; ia and ib separate, 

 iia+iib, iv+v. On abdomen iv+v, but not on a common shield; i to 

 iii are distinct, showing as black dots, the rest smaller. Setffi 

 moderate, l)rownish. Feet all pale. 



In spun-up leaves on Rihes c-riuiit at Bailey's, in Platte Canyon. July 

 13; imago July 18. 



GELECHIA UNCTELLA Zeller. 



Xarwa.— Head rounded, vertex under joint 2; pale luteous, ocelli 

 black. Cervical shield whitish, inmiaculate. Body slender, tortrici- 

 form, whitish with even purplish-]>rown bands as wide as the spaces 

 between; sul)dorsal, lateral, substigmatal with a faint cloud subven- 

 trally. Feet all pale. Tubercles minute, set^e line; spiracles dark. 

 A faint, broken, medio-ventral dark band. Anal plate small, pale. 

 Tubercles iv and v approximate, v dorsad. Tubercles dark, without 

 plates. 



Webbing up the leaves, often gregarious, forming a large mass of 

 web and leaves in a ball; on Lnplnus and Thermopsu montana at 

 Boulder Creek Canyon and foothills back of Golden. 



GELECHIA PRAVINOMINELLA Chambers. 



2<7r'y«.— Head pale luteous, shaded over vertices of lobes with red- 

 dish; ocelli black. Shields and anal plate pale, translucent, luteous 

 tinted. Body opaquely whitish; subdorsal, lateral and suprastigma- 

 tal, blotched,' irregularly edged, dull purple bands, leaving the small 

 black tubercles in the pale parts. Tubercles ia and ib separate, iia 

 and lib approximate, iv+v, v very small. A trace of subventral 

 purplish shadings. Sette moderate, pale. Feet normal, short, green. 



The larva folds a young leaf of the aspen with web which reaches 

 down to the petiole and stem, broad, band-like, and cobwebby. It 

 forms a tube within the folded leaf. Found at Pine Grove in the 

 Platte Canyon July 9. Moth emerged July 22. 



GELECHIA ANARSIELLA Chambers. 



Zrt/'vv/. — Head rounded, apex in joint 2, shining ))lack, labium and 

 epistoma pale. Body rather thick but flattened. Cervical shield 

 large, black, all of joint 2 black, joint 3 vinous black except in front 

 whTch, with joint 4 in front, is narrowly but conspicuously collared 

 in bright white. Rest of body green, faintly brownish shaded to the 

 spiracles, then clear green; a faint, broad, whitish subdorsal line 



