NO. 1375. TINEID MOTHS FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA— BVSCK. 771 



dish brown alnicolella Chaiiiber.s; the blood red and y(dlow tidiu/nlneUa 

 Beutenniiiller; the })riek wdjxdcheliu Cliuuihers; tlie hisi-xmsfimonc/i- 

 rella BeutenuiiiHer; the brown, yellow, and black niotth-d hi<irldrujdht 

 Beutenniiiller, with its variety i'Kj>t(>sfr/'</rHa Beutenniiillei-; the p('i)i)cr 

 and .salt-oolored alnivortlla Chambers, and the oreeriish-whiti^ hIacU 

 dotted shastaella Beutenniiiller. In faet, 1 will candidly admit thai I 

 had made an elaborate table where))y to distino-uish these sup[)osed 

 •species. 



Now, however, 1 have before me a laro-e series bred by Doctor Dyar 

 during- two weeks of July from similarly rolled leaves on alder at 

 Kaslo, British Columbia, and it includes specimens which can not be 

 disting-uished from the extremes of the foregoing series. There is the 

 deep reddish brown unicolored form described as (ilnirolella which 

 Chambers bred from alder in Colorado, and there is the light greenish 

 form represented by Beutenmiiller's type of .shastaella in U. S. National 

 Museum, as well as intervening varieties. 



In view of this there can not be much doubt but that all of these 

 names represent merely varieties of the same species. 



GRACILARIA STIGMATELLA Fabricius. 



One specimen bred from aspen by Doctor D3'ar at Kaslo, British 

 Columbia, Jul}^ 26, which can not be distinguished from the common 

 eastern form described by Chambers as Gracilaria j>^ifU"^'''''^^"- 

 There can hardly be any doubt about the identity of this species with 

 the European stigmatella Fabricius. 



GRACILARIA MURTFELDTELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi salfron 3^ellow on the inner side and toward base 

 lighter. Maxillary palpi dark saffron j^ellow. Antenna^ straw-yellow 

 without an}' color annulations. Face saffron yellow with a central 

 streak of light canary -^^ellow. Head light canary-yellow with collar 

 of deep saffron yellow. Thorax canarj^-j^ellow with patagia darker. 

 Forewings light canary-j^ellow with base of costa and costal part of 

 apical half ])rilliant deep saffron yellow; a line of the dark yellow 

 along the dorsal apical edge before the cilia. Apical cilia safl'ron yel- 

 low; dorsal cilia lighter j^ellow. Hindwings dark fuscous; cilia yel- 

 lowish. Al)domen yellowish fuscous. Legs dark brown: tarsi 

 whitish; hind tibia smooth. Expanse 20 mm. 



ITahitat.—K\v\i\\ood, Missouri, June (Miss Murtt'eldt): rulhnaii, 

 Washington, August. (Piper.) 



Ti/jJe.—Cvit. No. 7809, U. S. National Museum. 



This is by far the largest and stoutest Gracilaria described from 

 this country and I am unac(iuainted with any P^uropean species as 

 large. In coloration it comes nearest Gracilaria elangella variety 



