REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECITIID MOTHS— BWCK. 811 



indicate tliut the Ps>'llid-o:ills were merely used as an accidental con- 

 venient retreat for pupation and that the species probably is a vege- 

 table feeder as the other species of the genus, whose life histories are 

 known. 



RECURVARIA OBLIQUISTRIGELLA Chambers. 



Anarsia ohUquisirigella Chambers, Can. Ent., IV, 1872, p. 65. 



Gelechia obliquistrigella Chambers, Can. Ent., IV, 1872, p. 175; VII, 1875, p. 106; 



IX, 1877, p. 24; X, 1878, p. 50; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 145.— 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5422, 1891. 

 Recur varia obliquistrigella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5599, 1902. 

 Not Gelechia obliquistrigella Packard, U. F. Ent. Comm. Rep., \, 1890, p. 850, 



fiij. 284. 



In Professor FernakFs collection I have examined several specimens 

 received from Chambers as this species and identified by Lord Wal- 

 sing-ham in 1882 as ohJiquistrigeUa. One of these I obtained through 

 the kindness of Professor Fernald for the U. S. National Museum. 

 They are identical with the type in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, as far as the miserable condition of this latter permits 

 identification. At least they agree generically and ])olong to the 

 present genus. These specimens agree tolerably well with Cham})ers's 

 description. 



Packard^ figures a Gelechia, bred from spruce and which had been 

 determined by Professor Fernald as Gelechia ohli(piist'ng(dla. 



But the species figured is surelv not the present species, agreeing 

 neither with the types nor with the description of (Mlqimtrigella, the 

 food plant of which nuist for the present stand unknown. 



This species has not the hair pencil at base of hindwing in the males. 



RECURVARIA CRATAEGELLA, new species. 



Recurvaria eraiaegella BvscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5600, 1902. 

 ? Recurvaria nanella HUbner, Staudinger and Re])el Cat. Eur. Lep., II, No. 

 2874, 1901. 



Antenna' whitish with indistinct narrow dark-brown annulations. 

 Labial palpi whitish with two black annulations on each joint, tip 

 white. Face, head, and thorax white suffused with fuscous. 



Forewings white thickly sprinkled with fuscous. From near the 

 base of costa is an outwardly directed oblique ill-defined black streak, 

 not reaching to the dorsal edge, more or less interrupted at the fold 

 and bordered on the outside with white scales. From middle of costa 

 is a similar, parallel, interrupted dark streak still less clearly defined. 

 At the end of the cell in middle of wing is a short black longitudinal 

 streak; ])elow this on dorsal edge is a small black spot and on costal 

 edge is two suuilar black spots, one at apical third, the other just 



U. S. Ent. Comm. Report, V, p. 850, fig. 284. 



