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the same as eight types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 

 Cambridge labeled In- Chambers deprexsostrigella. 



All of these types agree with the description and are undoulitedly 

 authentic. 



So far as known to me no authentic specimen labeled ochreosuf- 

 ftisella is in existence, and the above synonomy is established merely 

 on Chambers' evidence. 



The two species are described from Texas, one right above the 

 other,^ and there, Chambers thinks, thej^ are two different species, 

 though he says that they resemble each other. He writes that the 

 color of head and palpi are different in the two species, but does not 

 give the color of one of them {d(3j)resmstrlgella), and the color given 

 for the other suits his own authentic specimens of the first. 



Later ^ he corrects his description somewhat and says that they may 

 be one and the same species. 



As the many types of dejjressostr/geJJa show some little variation, it 

 seems under the circumstances admissible to place the two names as 

 synonyms, thus lessening the previous long list of unknown species. 



Should future collecting reveal two closely similar species, which 

 with sufficient probability can be refei'red to the two species, then, of 

 course, the second name should be resurrected and retained for the 

 species represented by the types. 



In the U. S. National Museum, l^esidcs the type, there is one speci- 

 men labeled by Lord Walsingham, Gelechia depressostrlgella. This, as 

 all the t^'pes, came from Texas. 



GELECHIA STRIATELLA, new species 

 Gclcchut xtriuti'Ua Busck, Dj'ar's List Amer. Leji., No. 5737, 1903. 



Antenna? shining dark l)rown, slightly serrate toward the tip. 

 La])ial palpi with well-developed furrowed brush, ocherous white, 

 thickl}^ sprinkled Avith black and gray scales, underside of l)rush nearly 

 black. 



Face whitish; head and thorax clothed with light bluish gra}- scales, 

 each scale slightly tipped with black or gra}^, which produces to the 

 naked e3'e a uniform dark-gray color. 



Forewings with ground color light whitish gray, thicklv sprinkled 

 with darker gra}", brown, and black scales, which are arranged in 

 indistinct narrow longitudinal darker lines, somewhat more pronounced i 

 in the apical part of the wing, but even there not clearly perceptible 

 to the naked eve. Along the fold and at the dorsal cilia the wing is 

 faintly suffused wdth ocherous. Cilia whitish, sprinkled with black 

 dots. 



^Can. Ent., VI, p. 236. 



"Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sci., II, p. 255. 



