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habit of tho larva. As Dr. Dyar has since shown/ this g-enus must be 

 included in the Tortricida% and has nothing to do with the present 

 species; >)ut the life mode is identical with that described by Clemens, 

 and illustrates how dangerous it is to rely on earlier stages alone in 

 making new specific and generic groups. 



GELECHIA VERNELLA Murtfeldt. 



GelerJiia formoseUu Murtfeldt (not Hiibner), Can. Ent., XIII, 1881, p. 243. — 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5364, 1891. 

 Gelcrhui vcmeJId Murtfeldt, Can. Ent., XV, 1883, p. 139.— Riley, 8mith"8 List 



Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5508, 1891. — Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5761, 



1903. 



C'otyjx's of this species are in U. S. National Museum, and I have 

 obtained additional material through the kindness of Miss Mary 

 Murtfeldt. 



Food pl( tilt . — Oak. 



Ilahitat. — Missouri. 



I have not recognized this species from other localities. 



GELECHIA SEQUAX Haworth. 



Recarvaria scqiicLv Haworth, Lepidoptera Brit., 1829, p. 552. 



Gelecliia {Teleia) sequax Staudingek and Rebel, Cat. hep. Eur., II, No. 2741 

 1901.— Zeller, Verh. k. k. zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, XXIII, 1873, p. 265.^ 

 Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 147.— Riley, Smith's Lisi 

 Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5478, 1891. — Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5762, 

 1903. 



This P^uropean species was included in the American list, on Zeller's 

 authority, from Massachusetts. ' 



I haA'e not met with any specimen from America, and it seems prob- 

 able that some mistake was made in the labeling of Zeller's specimen 

 or in his determination. ! 



In the U. S. National Museum is a good series of European specimens. 



The larva lives, according to Meyrick, in spun shoots of lleliA 

 anthcjKiDii. 



GELECHIA OCCIDENTELLA Chambers. 



Gelecliia occidentella Chambers, Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sci., II, 1875, p. 246; Bull 

 U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 145.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 

 No. 5427, 1891.— Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5763, 1903. 



In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, in Cambridge, are foundf 

 three probably authentic types of this species. They are true Gelechia 

 and can be recognized also specifically, although they are in poor coD' 

 dition and have lost their palpi. I have met with no specimens exactlj 

 like them. 



Ilahitat. — California. 



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