832 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. XXV. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA SAPHIRINELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia saphirinella Cha^iber», Ciun. Quart. Jouni. 80., II, 1875, p. 250. 

 Gelechia sapharinella Chambers, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 147. — Riley, 



Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5473, 1891. 

 (Jnorimoschema saphirinella Busck, Dyar's List Am. Lep., No. 5634, 1903. 



The two authentic types in the Museum of (Comparative Zoolojiv in 

 Cambridge are in bad condition, but recognizable. 



1 have taken a few specimens of what 1 believe is this species at 

 light in District of Columbia. 



It was described from Colorado. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA FLORELLA, new species. 

 Gnorimo.scheinajiorella, Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5635, 1903. 



Antennae pale reddish with narrow deep black annulations. Labial 

 palpi reddish white, darker and sprinkled with black on the under- 

 side; terminal joint brick red with tip black. Face and tongue 

 ocherous white; head and thorax pale reddish. Costal half of fore- 

 wings whitish yellow sprinkled with light ocherous brown scales; 

 dorsal half of forewings brick red. At basal third is a small black 

 costal spot; on middle of cell is small black dot, below and nearer 

 base another similar dot on the fold, and at the end of the cell is a 

 third; all of these are surrounded by a circlet of whitish scales. 



A few black scales are scattered irregularly on the wing, especially 

 in the dorsal part and around the apical edge. Hindwings shining 

 whitish fuscous, cilia reddish. Underside of ])od_v whitish; legs 

 ocherous, barred with black; tarsal joints black, tipped with white. 



Alar expanse. — 17 mm. " 



Habitat. — Denver, Colorado. 



Type.—^o. 6363, U.S.N.M. 



This striking species, very distinct from any other recognized 

 species, was received from Dr. William Dietz. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA BANKSIELLA, new species. 

 Gnorhno-schema lianksiella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5636, 1903. 



Antennae dark fuscous with narrow silvery annulations. Labial 

 palpi dark fuscous, nearly black, upper side of second joint and tip 

 of terminal joint whitish. Face light silvery gray; head and thorax 

 dull dark fuscous nearly black; forewings concolorous with thorax 

 with two round ocherous brown spots, one on middle of cell one at 

 end of cell. Below on fold is a similarly colored ditfused oblong spot 

 touching the first discal spot and reaching down to the dorsal edge. 



Apical part of wing more or less sprinkled with Avhite scales. Hind 

 wings light fuscous. The two first abdominal segments velvety yel 

 low above, rest of abdomen blackish above, light silvery fuscous below 

 legs dark fuscous, each joint tipped with silver}' white. 



