NO.1304. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 841 



2. Forewings sprinkled with bluish-white scales crotolaridla, p. 841 



Forewings without such light scales palpUiniella, p. 841 



8. With curved white fascia on middle of forewings kearfotteUa, p. 842 



Without such fascia nigrella, p. 842 



4. Forewings ocherous white nigratomeUa, p. 843 



Forewings fuscous eoncmmeUa, p. 844 



APRO^REMA CROTOLARIELLA Busck. 



Aproaerema ernlol<iri(i!<t BrscK, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 226, pi. i, 

 lig. 2; Dyar's List Anier. Lep., No. 5695, 1903.— Dyak, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, iv, p. 471, 1901. 



This species is very near the following-, paJj)ilhiie/Ia Chambers, and 

 has even the same coloration of the palpi as that species, but it is 

 somewhat larger and may be readily recognized by the sprinkling of 

 bluish-white scales on the forewings. 



J^ood plant. — CrotoJaria pum'da. 



Hahitat. — Palm Beach, Florida. 



Tyjje.—'So. 4933, U.S.N.M. 



APROiEREMA PALPILINEELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia palpilineeJIa Chambers, Cinn. (.^uart. Journ. Sci., II, 1875, p. 252; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1S78, pp. 88, 145.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 



No. 5442, 1891. 

 Aproserema paipiUneellu Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5696, 1903. 



The supposed types (3) of this species in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology in Cambridge are in poor condition, and represent at least two 

 species in different genera, namely, the present and what I take to be 

 Arhtotelid m In lineUa Chambers (p. 802). But the characteristic colora- 

 tion of the labial palpi, mentioned by Chambers, which this species 

 has in common with the preceding, shows that the name paPpilineella 

 should be applied to the present species. 



It has been bred in the insectary of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture from red clover, on which it folds the leaves. 



These bred specimens ' were examined by Chambers in 1879, and in 

 the Department notebook is Chambers' note on the .specimens, in which 

 he says: 



Without specimens to compare it with I am unable to determine this species, but it 

 is one of the group of small dark brown moths of the genus Gelechia, closely allied 

 to nigrella, palpiannulella,'^ and palpUiniella, Chambers; possibly it may be one of 

 these, if indeed tltene species are distinct, which may admit of douhf.-^ 



^ quote this note as one striking, but by no means unique, example 

 of the difficulties which attend the determination of many of Cham- 

 bers's species. With a practically valueless specific description, with 

 absolutely no generic (sometimes not even famih^) characters given, 



1 Agr. Dept., No. 185. 



'^ ArlHtotelia absconditella Walker, see p. 801. 



^ Italicized by the writer. 



