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1159. Cielochia (L.ita?) conclusella. 



Ge/echia conclusella, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 593. 

 G. crescent i/tt sei el /a, Cham. Can. Ent. vi. p. 237, &c, and Index (nee B. U. S. G- 

 & G. Surv. iv. p. 90). 



G. gris.se/asciella, Cham. Cin. Quart. Journ. Sci, ii. p. 253. 



This specimen is labelled "Gelechia grissefasciella, Cham., Texas," 

 and is one of thosj rec jived from Mr. Chambers, and regarded by Prof. 

 Riley as unique and as type specimens. I have no hesitation, after com- 

 paring it with the type of G. crescentifascie/fa, Cham., received from 

 Mr. Groodell, in pronouncing it a worn specimen of that species. Mr. 

 Chambers has described two supposed varieties of his G. crescentifasci- 

 clld, the first with a complete fascia, the second with only pale costal and 

 dorsal spots. These will probably be proved to be distinct species. The 

 specimen before me is the fasciated form, and is equivalent to Walker's 

 G. conc/usel/a. A specimen of the second, also from Mr. Chambers's 

 collection, is in the Peabody Academy of Sciences, Salem, Mass., and is 

 not distinguishable from specimens received from Texas ; it has a decided 

 dark spot on the extreme base of the costa. 



222. Geleehia (TVleia) oronella, sp. nov. -Palpi with the second joint 

 thickened with projecting scales, scarcely brush-like, greyish white, with the basal 

 half of the second joint, a spot before its apex externally, and two wide aunula- 

 tions on the apical joint brownish fuscous. Head and thorax greyish white; 

 antenna- brownish fuscous. Fore wings narrow, elongate, greyish white; a patch 

 at the base of the costa pointing downwards parallel to the fold, a sometimes re- 

 duplicated st leak along t lie middle of the fold, an outwardly oblique line of spots 

 from before the middle of the costa, beyond which are two dots at the end of the 

 cell, all brownish fuscous; the wing is speckled and smeared, especially above and 

 below the fold and on the apical portion, with dilute brownish fuscous, and there 

 is a spot on the beginning of the costal cilia, preceded by a smaller one of the same 

 color, others less conspicuous around the apical margin; cilia greyish. Hind 

 wings not deeply emarginate below the apex, a little broader than the fore wings, 

 greyish, with slightly paler fringes. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Expanse 

 15 millim. 



Two in Prof. Fernald's collection from Orono, Maine. 



This species differs from Gelechia (Evagora) apicitripunctel/a, Clem., 

 G. (Ev/tgora) gitvisporel/a, Zell., and G. (E.) dorsistrigella, Zell., in 

 the dorsal portion of the wing below the fold being not paler than the 

 remainder of the wing, as well as in its much darker antennae, which are 

 not annulated. It is also somewhat larger than those species, which are 

 about equal in size to Ge/echia (Evagora) cristatella, Cham. It has 

 so much the appearance of the tuft-bearing species with which I have 

 here compared it, that I fully expected it to belong to the same group ; 

 but it is more properly placed in the sub-genus Teleia. 



