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HOMCEOSOMA MUCIDELLUM Ragonot. 



One specimen, June 24, and one from Mr. Cockle's collection, June 



20, 1902. 



EPHESTIODES GILVESCENTELLA Ragonot. 



Four specimens, June 18, July 1, August 18, aud one from Mr. 

 Cockle's colle(;tion, June 27. 



EPHESTIODES BENJAMINELLA, new species. 



Five specimens, June 22, July 19, 24, 25, August 3, two from Mr. 

 Cockle's collection, July 19, 190l, August 17, and five from Pullman, 

 Washington (C. V. Piper), July 11, 12, 1898, and August 2, 1899. 

 Dark fuscous with a red tint. Lines more or less obscured, pale, 

 edged with blackish toward median space; discal dots black, indistinct. 

 Hind wings fuscous. Anal tuft of male sordid ocherous. Expanse, 

 13-14 mm. 



The form differs from gilvescenteUa Ragonot and n'ujreUa Hulst by 

 the fuscous hind wings. It seems nearest allied to crytJireUa Ragonot, 

 which 1 have not seen, but is not so red, that being described as "dark 

 vinous red, dusted with black on costa and veins." 



Tij/^e.— Cat. No. 7830, U. S. National Museum. 



Respectf ull}' dedicated to Dr. Marcus Benjamin, the efficient editor 

 of these Proceedings. 



Family PTEROPHORID^. 



PLATYPTILIA COSMODACTYLA Hiibner. 



Three specimens, July 11, 12, 19 and one from Mr. Cockle's collec- 

 tion, June 21, 1902. The larvai were found in the red bracts of the 

 high bush honeysuckle {Lonicera involucraUi)^ eating holes in the young 

 fruit through the bracts and destroying the fruit. A larva in the 

 penultimate stage had the following characters. I have described 

 the mature larva from a Coloradan specimen." 



Larva. — Head bilobed, shining black. Cervical shield quadrate, 

 black; thoracic feet and anal plate black; tubercles brown, angularly 

 plated, i and ii with a pale hair and very short black one separate, 

 i dorsad to ii; tubercle iii also with multiple hairs; two secondary 

 hairs, very short, black, below tubercle i; tubercle iiia present; iv + v 

 with a secondary hair closely adjoining; vi single. Skin with sparse, 

 dark, secondary granules. Dorsum broadly whitish with dorsal red- 

 dish line; sides dull reddish, stigmatal region whitish. The mature 

 larva has numerous secondary hairs. 



aProc. U. S. National Museum, XX V, 18Q2, p. 399. 



