818 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



Not OelecMa hicosiomaculella Dietz, Smith's List Ins. N. Jersey, 1900, p. 47-1; 

 BuscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5755, 1903. 



Chambers had named another species Deprcssaria hicoslo?naculelIa^ 

 before doscribinu- this species, but changed that name later to querci 

 foliellu^" when he discovered its food plant. This change was, of 

 course, inadmissible, and the name htcostoinaculella must be retained 

 for that species, which is a true Gdecliia^ common in the Eastern States 

 (p. 879). This, however, need not now interfere with the name of the 

 present Colorado species, when it is transferred to Epithcctix, to which 

 genus it was found to belong on examination of the type in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, 



It is a very distinctly recognized species, of which, besides the t}' pe, 

 1 have seen only few specimens in Dr. Dietz's collection from Colorado 

 like the t3^pe. and in U. S. National Museum from Arizona, collected 

 by Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber. 



EPITHECTIS SYLVICOLELLA, new species. 

 Epithedis syMcolella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5610, 1903. 



Antennfe dark fuscous, very indistinctly lighter annulated. 



Labial palpi dark brown, second joint with apex and a narrow annu- 

 lation below apex white; terminal joint with tip and two annulations 

 white. 



Face and head whitish, flecked with light brown. 



Forewings, ground color white, thickly overlaid with dark fuscous. 

 Three costal spots dark brown, nearly black, one at base, one just 

 before the costal cilia, and one midway between these. 



At the beginning of costal cilia is a whitish spot less overlaid with 

 fuscous than the rest of the wing, and opposite on the dorsal margin 

 is a similar but smaller spot. At basal third of dorsal margin is a 

 short, transverse, oblique dark streak reaching the fold, on which it 

 widens out to a small dark spot, sometimes more prominent than the 

 streak and edged exteriorly with a few white scales. 



On the middle of the disk is a ))lackish oblong dot edged with white, 

 and at the end of the disk is a similar rather more prominent dot. 

 Between and immediately below these dots is an oblong, longitudinal, 

 dark-brown streak. At base of cilia, around costal, apical, and dorsal 

 edge, is a row of equidistant dark-brown spots. Cilia yellowish fus- 

 cous. Hindw'ing light gray, with bluish reflections. Cilia yellowish. 

 Legs yellowish, tarsi annulated with black. 



Alar expanse. — 15 mm. 



Type.—l^o. 6358, U.S.N.M. I 



TIahitat. — New York. 



The tj'pes of this species were found in Fitch's collection, now ia 



Can. Ent., IV, p. 127. ^Idem., IV, p. 202. 



