178 LORD WALSINGHAM. 



1066. Gelechia petasitis, Pfaff (Wocke Cat. 1836).— Palpi whitish, irror- 

 ated with greyish scales; second joint brush-like beneath; apical joint shorter 

 than the second. Antennse rather indistinctly annulated. Head and thorax grey- 

 ish white. Fore wings lanceolate acuminate, narrow at the base; the anal angle 

 obsolete, white, profusely irrorated with grey scales, with three elongate greyish- 

 fuscous dots, the first about the middle of the fold, the second obliquely above it 

 on the cell, the third at the end of the cell; a row of greyish-fuscous dots around 

 the apex and apical margin, sometimes almost obsolete; cilia with mixed whitish 

 and greyish-fuscous scales. Hind wings wider than the fore wings, decidedly 

 emarginate below the apex, grey with greyish ochreous cilia not quite equal to 

 the width of the wings. Posterior legs pale ochreous; the tarsi fuscous, spotted 

 with pale ochreous at the joints. 



9 ■ Much whiter than the male, the antennae more distinctly annulated, the dis- 

 cal and marginal spots more conspicuous. 



Expanse 1 7 millim. 



Two males and one female in Mr. Groodell's collection ; one very plainly- 

 marked female in Mr. Allen's collection. 



670. Gelechia (Bryotropha?) bosquellsi. 



Gelechia bosquella, Cham. Bull. U. S. G. & G. Surv. iv. p. 87, and " Index." 

 (Ecophora bosquella, Cham. Can. Ent. vii. p. 92. 

 Gelechia bosquella, Cham. Can. Ent. vii. p. 124. 



This is certainly a Gelechia, not an (Ecophora as suggested by Cham- 

 bers (Bull. U. S. G. & a. Surv. iv. p. 87, and " Index") ; the palpi and 

 the form of the hind wings at once distinguish it. The description 

 should be amended as follows : — Head maroon-brown ; the upper or cos- 

 tal portion of the pale orange fascia is tinged with white ; the costal spots 

 are both white, the outer one being by far the largest and most conspicu- 

 ous ; there is also a small white .spot on the margin below the apex, with 

 some few white scales below it. In the specimen before me the tip of 

 the basal joint of the antennae is scarcely to be called white. 



120. &c. Gelechia (lata) vagella. 



Gelechia vagella, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 596. 



Depressaria fuscoochrella, Chambers, Can. Ent. iv. pp. 106, 129, 147, 148. 



Gelechia fuscoochrella, Chambers, Bull. U. S. G. & G. Surv. 1878, iv. p. 14::. 



Gelechia (Lita) liturosella, Zeller, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1873, p. 265. 



A specimen in the collection of the Peabody Academy of Sciences, 

 Salem, Mass., received from Mr. Chambers, agrees in every particular 

 with Zeller's description of G. liturosella; and I am convinced, by com- 

 paring it with Walker's rather damaged type in the British Museum, 

 that it was originally described as G. vagella. 



There are specimens in Prof. Fernald's collection, and in Mr. Good- 

 ell's collection from Amherst, Mass. I did not meet with it in the West- 

 ern States. 



