NO. 1375. TINEID MOTHS FROM BRITLSlI t'OJAMIilA -BUSCK. 759 



GELECHIA Hubner. 

 GELECHIA MANDELLA, new species. 



Antennae purplish black checkered with roseate white. Second 

 joint of labial palpi dark purplish brown on the exterior side, whitish 

 on the interior side; brush well developed; terminal joint purplish 

 black. Face white. Head and thorax dark purplish ])iown. Fore 

 wings dark purplish fuscous sprinkled with black and white scales. 

 There are two indistinct black discal spots, one shortly before and the 

 other at the end of the cell. A very faint, thin, outwardly sharply 

 angulated white fascia crosses the wing at apical third, and there are a 

 few white scales before the apex. In some specimens the fasi-ia is 

 hardly perceptible. The entire edge of the wing, but more especially 

 the apical part, is suffused with light rose-colored scales. Cilia roseate 

 fuscous. Hind wings broader than the fore wings, dark fu.scous. 

 Abdomen dark fuscous above; roseate silver^'- on the under side. 

 Legs dark fuscous, sprinkled with roseate and silvery scales except 

 on the tarsi which are dark. Expanse, 17-18 nun. 



Ilahitat. — Kaslo, British Columbia, August (D3'^ar). 



Type.— Cat No. 7859, U. S. National Museum. 



Nearest to Gelechia rlhesella Chambers, and much like this species 

 in size, form, and general coloration, with the same roseate tinge on 

 the fore wings, but without the striking white markings of that species. 



GELECHIA MEDIOFUSCELLA Clemens. 



Gelechia mediofiisccllit CLE^iE'Sfi, Proc. Ent. .Soc. Phil., 11, lS6o, pji. 11, IL'I; Tin. 



N. Am., 1872, pp. 218, 224.— Chambers, P.uU. U. S. (ieol. Surv., IV, 1878, 



p. 144.— Bu.scK, Dyar's List N. A. Lep., No. 5764, 1!)02; Proc. U. 8. Nat. 



Mus., XXV, 1903, p. 885. 

 Gelechia ragdla Walker, Cat. Lep. Hot. P.rit. Mus., XXIX, 1864, p. 596.— 



Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., X, 1882, p. 178.— Riley, Smith's 



List. Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5506, 1891. 

 Depr-essaria fuscoochrella Ckambehs, Can. Ent., TV, 1872, pp. 106, 129, 147, 148. 

 Gelechia fuscoochrella Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 143. 

 Gelechia ILitn} Uturosella Zeller, Verh. k. k. ■^ool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, XNIII, 



1873, p. 265.— Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 144. 



Specimens from Seattle, Washington (Kincaid). 



GELECHIA MONELLA, new species. 



Antenna^ dark fuscous checkered with white. Tuft on si'cond joint 

 of labial palpi large, projecting, approaching the genus ]'j>.s,)/o/>/ii's in 

 form; basal half deep black, outer half white; terminal joint blackish. 

 Face and head whitish, mottled with fuscous. Thorax and fore wings 

 light fuscous irregularly mottled with black, white, and gray scales; 

 costal edge somewhat lighter than the rest of the wing. In the center 

 of the wing is a row of three more or less pronounced longitudinal 



