NO.1304. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 833 



Alar expanm. — 12 to 13 niiii. 



Hahitat. — Northern Atlantic States. 



Type.^^o. 6364, U.S.N.M. 



Described from .several ,s})(»cinien.s collected l)y Mr. Nathan Banks, 

 after whom I have pleasure in naming this species, at Sea Cliff, New 

 York. In the National Museum are also specimens from Essex 

 County, New York (Kearfott), and I have seen other specimens from 

 Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. This is presuraabl}- the species 

 identified by Dr. Dietz as a variety of triocelleUa Chambers, to which 

 it comes quite near. It differs, however, in the lack of the ocellate 

 spots, and is a much darker species than triocelleUa, which also has 

 an angulated light fascia at apical third, lacking in Ixmksiella. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA BATANELLA, new species. 



Gnorimoschemn.bataneUa Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5637, VAO'A. 



Antenna? silvery white, with sharp black annulations; labial palpi 

 with second joint white, overlaid with dark fuscous, especially on the 

 outside; terminal joint white, with base and ill-detined annulus before 

 the tip dark fuscous; face whitish; head and thorax white, liberally 

 sprinkled with light fuscous scales; forewings white, with a faint rosy 

 tint, irregularly and sparsely sprinkled with black scales, especially 

 toward the edges; a rather prominent group of them is found on costa 

 at apical third. On the middle of the disk is a small light-brown spot; 

 another similar is at the end of the cell. On the middle of the dorsal 

 edge is a patch of brown, and between this and apex are two other 

 small groups of brown scales. All of these brown markings are 

 obscure, ill defined, and not constant in all specimens. The black 

 scales form a nearly continuous thin line at base of cilia round the 

 apical edge. Cilia white; hindwings dark, shining fuscous; cilia yel- 

 lowish; abdomen dark fuscous above, silveiy white below; legs white 

 on the outside, sprinkled with fuscous; tarsi on the outside black, 

 with each joint tipped Avith white, on the inside pure white; outer 

 spurs black, inner spurs black on the outside, white on the inside. 



Alar expanse. — 11.5 to 12,5 mm. 



ILfhltat. — New Jersey. 



7^7^.^— No. 6365, U.S.N.M. 



Cotypes in the collection of Mr. AVilliam I). Kearfott, to whom the 

 M. S. National Museum is indebted for the types. 



GNORIMOSCHEMA LAVERNELLA Chambers. 



(iehchia lavernella Chambers, Can. Ent., VI, 1S74, p. 242. — Riley, Smith's List 



Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5400, 1891. 

 GelecJda jifiysaUroreUa Chambers, Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sei., II, 1878, p. 2;>S; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 117 and 146.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. 



Am., No. 5447, 1891. 

 Gnorimoschema lavernella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5638, 1903. 



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