880 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The second species which Chambers described as Gelechia hlcosto- 

 maeidd/a from Colorado is an Epithectls and is treated on p. 817 

 under that genus. 



Of the present species no authentic t3'pe is in existence, but in the 

 U. S. National Museum are two specimens determined b}^ Lord Wal- 

 singham, and similar specimens in the collection of Dr. Dietz and 

 Professor Fernald, also determined as hlcostoinaculelhi by Lord Wal- 

 singham. Some of these specimens are bred by Miss Murtfeldt from 

 oak, and bear her breeding number 174 M. Miss Murtfeldt thinks this 

 the true hicostomdculella, and as it agrees with Chambers' description 

 it seems altogether probable that this truly is that species. 



The species is near the following and Gelechia vernella Murtfeldt, 

 but has raised scales on the forewings, in which character, as well as 

 in the stalked veins 6 and 7 in the hindwings and the slightly parted 

 veins 3 and 1 it approaches the genus Telphuna. 



GELECHIA NIGRIMACULELLA, new species. 



Gelechia nigriinaculella Riley, Smitli's List Lt'p. Bor. Am., No. 541.S, Lsyi.— 

 BuscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. o7ri(), 1<»03. 



In Riley's List of Tineina is found, under no. 5118, the name GclechUi, 

 ni<p'hnacnldla Chambers, and in U. S. National Museum is a large 

 apparently bred series labeled with this same name. But no descrip- 

 tion has ever been printed of the insect, which I now describe under 

 the old manuscript name given by Chambers. 



Antenna? darlv fuscous. Lal)ial palpi with normal well-developed 

 brush; ocherous strongly sutfused with black except tips of second 

 and third joint, which are clear ocherous. Face, head, and thorax 

 brownish sprinkled with fuscous and l)lackish scales. Ground color 

 of forewings whitish fuscous but obscured by a liberal sprinkling of <; 

 dark-brown and black scales. An ill-detined longitudinal streak 1)elow 

 costal edge is whitish; costal edge nearly black; on the middle of the J 

 disk is an oblique short black dash, and just below this a similar one. [ 

 At apical third is an ol)scure outwardly angulated narrow white fascia, 

 and just before this is a costal and a dorsal ])lackish spot nearly reach- 

 ing each other. Cilia whitish. 



Hindwing as broad as forewings, light fuscous, darker toward tip. 

 Abdomen yellowish fuscous above, below white. Legs whitish sprin- 

 kled with black; tarsal joints black tipped with white. 



Alar ex2Mnse. — 13 to 15 mm. 



HaMtat. — New York, New Jersey. 



Type.—^o. 6389 U.S.N.M. 



Very close to the Californian Gelechia occidentella Chambers, but" 

 differing by its dark face. Described from many specimens collected; 

 by Mr. William Beutenmiiller, and found in U. S. National Museum! 

 labeled " Gelechia nigrimaculella Chambers." 



