810 pnorEEDTxris of the national mureum. 



Tj'pe No. -±(55 ill the U. S. Ntitioiuil JNlusoum of this species, rceived 

 from Chambers with his handwriting- on the label, is identical with ' 

 types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge. 



The}' are in very poor condition, but agree well with description, 

 and unquestionabh' represent this species. A slide of the wings made 

 from the one side of the National Museum type, for the double pur- 

 pose of preserving and studying the species, shows that it belongs in 

 the present genus. 



I have bred a large series of these moth from bald cypress {Taxo- 

 dium distlnctuin) on grounds of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, District of Columbia. The larva? work in the same way 

 as apicitrij.mncteUa on hemlock, uniting a few needles and feeding 

 between them. The pupa is also found in silk lined tubes formed of a 

 few needles. Several generations occur during the summer, the imagoes 

 of one of which are very abundant in early July. 



RECURVARIA COLUBRIN/E, new species. 

 Recnrmria colnhrnuv Busck, Dyar'w List Amer. Lep., No. 5598, 1902. 



Antennav light brown with white annulations. Labial palpi with sec- 

 ond joint light brown, white at apex; terminal joint white with a broad 

 brown annulation round middle and a narrow one just before the tip. 



Face, head, and thorax reddish white with scattered light-brown 

 scales. Forewings dirty ochreous white, outer half suffused with light . 

 fuscous. On costa are three equidistant brown spots, one near base, j 

 one at middle, and one at the beginning of costal cilia. In the middle 

 of the wing are three small brown spots in a straight longitudinal line, 

 one at basal third, one at middle of wing, and one at the end of the 

 cell. Just within the dorsal cilia are two large ill-detined longitudinal 

 brown spots, and at apical edge is a row of dark dots. 



Cilia whitish, mixed toward apex with fuscous. Hindwing silvery 

 fuscous, cilia yellowish. Legs dark brown with white annulations; 

 posterior tibial above yellowish white. 



Alar expaiwe. — 10 mm. 



Tyjx'.—^o. 6354, U.S.N.M. 



This moth was bred in the insectary of U. S. Department of Agri 

 culture b}' Mr. Th. Pergande, from PNylla galls on C(thihr!na texensis 

 received from Mr. E. A. Schwarz, from Rockport, Texas, August, 1894 



Mr. Pergande writes in the notebook on this species under no. 0336 



Found in Psylla galls on Colubrina texana, a small Tineid larva of a yellc)vvish white 

 color with the incisions between the segments pinkish and the head and cervical 

 shield yellow. This larva feeds upon the Psyllids; there were also found within the 

 galls a few pupa» belonging to this larva. 



Although unwilling to doubt so careful and trained an observer as 

 Mr. Pergande, I would sa^^ that the generic relations of the species 



