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along- tubercles i and ii. Thoracic feet black; a faint whitish dorsal 

 line; anal flap whitish, dark punctate before. Feet normal, green. 

 Tubercles black, white, ringed; ia and ib separate, iia+iib, iv+v, v 

 small. 



Larva3 on Ceanothus, spinning a delicate web over the leaf it is feed- 

 ing on, hiding in a silken tube in a folded leaf or between leaves. 

 Found at top of Chimney Gulch, Golden, July 9; imago July 20. 



GELECHIA VERSUTELLA Zeller. 



Larva. — Head pale testaceous, sutures about clypeus, paraclypeal 

 pieces and bases of lobes more or less black shaded. Body moderate, 

 tortriciform, green, with a distinct pale subdorsal line; sides somewhat 

 fluted. Tubercles minute, sette moderate, white, iv and v united. Feet 

 normal, short; head setse long, white. When mature the larva becomes 

 shaded with pink and enters a place of concealment to transform. 



Found in folded leaves on the cotton wood at Denver, May 31. 

 Moths out June 26. 



GELECHIA OCELLELLA Chambers. 



Larva. — Head rounded, bilobed, oblique, apex under joint 2 when 

 retraced; luteous brownish mottled, sutures nai'rowly nearly black, or 

 the head all shining black; epistoma scarcely paler. Cervical shield 

 black with a pale dividing line and luteous patch in each half, or the 

 patch merely a narrow, somewhat impressed dash. Green, dorsum 

 all shaded in purplish; narrow dorsal, broader subdorsal, fainter and 

 slightly broken lateral and stigmatal whitish bands; joints 3 and 4 green 

 dorsally in the incisures. Tubercles pale, concolorous, hair tubercles 

 black; normal, iv+v, ia and il) separate, iia+iib. Body normal, the 

 incisures depressed. Feet of joints 2 and 3 black, or pale, black 

 tipped. Abdominal feet green. 



Found in folded or cut leaves, slightly webbed, on the poison ivy 

 {Rhm toxicodendron), in the Platte Canyon July 3; imago July 19 



Family TTNEID.F. 



GRACILARIA PNOSMODIELLA Busck. 



Larva. — Head moderately flattened, l)ilobed, clypeus band-shaped 

 but narrowed to a rounded point at the vertical triangle; pale luteous; 

 mouth and sutures brown. Body nearly cylindrical, segments angu- 

 larly moniliform, no shields. Tubercles and setw both pale, .some- 

 what developed, several visible even dorsally. Thoracic feet short, 

 obliquely extended; abdominal on joints 7 to 9 and 13, sessile, with 

 a little bunch of hooks. Dorsum and venter of joint 2 shagreened. 

 All pale yellowish, no marks. Segments subequal, the center of the 

 abdomen a little enlarged. 



