KO.1304. REVISION OF AMERICAN GELECHIID MOTHS— BUSCK. 871 



more leaves, which thus dry up and crumple and afford convenient 

 shelter; or others lind room in the dried fruit or between it and the 

 large surrounding calyx. The species overwinters as larva, and two 

 generations are found in this locality, the imagoes issuing from the 

 hibernated larva in May and from the summer brood in August. 



GELECHIA COCKERELLI, new species. 

 Gelechia eockereUi Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5740, 1903. 



Antenna dark brown with indistinct yellow annulations. Labial 

 palpi are long and slender, l)rush on second joint only slightly devel- 

 oped; white with a few dark scales; terminal joint somewhat darker, 

 yellowish. Face yellowish white. Head and thorax rust yellow, 

 thorax with three longitudinal l)lackish lines. 



Forewings light yellowish brown, with dark blackish l)rown mark- 

 ings; on dorsal edge near base is a large dark brown patch, therein 

 differing from the foregoing similar ochreostrUjelUi Chambers and 

 hlhlxcellH Busck, which both have dorsal base light, but costal base 

 dark; in the present species the costal base is of the general color of 

 the wing. At apical third is a blackish ill-defined costal spot, which 

 runs out in a dark shade across the wing. Just before this spot is 

 another smaller, more sharply defined costal blackish spot. Along 

 the veins and in the disk are longitudinal dark lines, sharpest and 

 darkest in the apical part of the wing, and each terminating at the 

 l)ase of the cilia in a deep black spot. These longitudinal streaks are 

 interrupted at the end of the cell l)y a short thin perpendicular deep 

 black streak, followed by a short light brown space. Cilia reddish yel- 

 low, slightly sprinkled with ))lack. 



Hind wings In-oader than forewings, yellowish fuscous; cilia yel- 

 lowish. 



Abdomen light brown. Legs light ])rown shaded with darker brown; 

 tarsi l)lackish with each joint tipped with yellow. 



Al<ir expanse. — 15 to 16.5 mm. 



IFahlfat. — New Mexico, Arizona. 

 7y7>'.— No. »j384, U.S.N.M. 



Collected at light in May in Mesilla Park, New Mexico, by Mr. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, after whom I take pleasure in naming this species. 

 Also collected by Mr. E. A. Schwarz atCatalina Springs, Arizona, in 

 April. 



GELECHIA VARIABILIS, new species. 

 Gelechia variabilis BvscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5741, 1903. 



The insects which I shall describe under this name and as varieties 

 of this species represent, in my opinion, undoubtedh' only one species, 

 but is the most variable Gelechiid with which I am acquainted (except 



