24 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. ix. 



It certainly contradicts the characters of the Pyralid?e, where it would 

 naturally be placed, and falls in the Thyrididae by Hampson's tables. 

 There is, however, no Thyrid with such a highly specialized venation 

 as this moth, which, therefore, seems an offshoot of the Pyralid^e. 



The larvae are gall makers in the old stems of Randia aculeata. 

 The gall is a thick swelling in the hard wood about twice the thick- 

 ness of the normal stem ; fusiform with normal bark and no visible 

 opening. There is, however, a tiny apical opening from which the 

 larva ejects the frassandat once closes with silk. The interior of the 

 gall is a tube of the diameter of the larva, about 25 mm. long, moist, 

 without frass, only a little pulverized pithy wood in the bottom. The 

 galls occur in pairs, adjoining. At maturing the larva eats a hole 

 large enough for the exit of the moth and closes it with web. Pupa- 

 tion within, the pupa practically filling the cavity. Old galls remain 

 on the tree and do not kill the branch. 



Head very full and rounded, clypeus not reaching above the middle of the front, 

 not depressed nor elevated ; head not bilobed, all the sutures level with the surface. 

 Higher than wide ; antennte moderate ; ocelli small ; dark brown, the sutures paler ; 

 width about 1.5 mm. Body cylindrical, nearly uniform, segments somewhat folded 

 and creased, subventral fold distinct but not prominent. Uniformly light brown, a 

 little darker at the ends. Tubercles corneous, shining brown, mostly without setae, 

 though there are a few near the head and subventrally. Tubercles small, irregularly 

 shaped ; iv and v united, vi present, vii without much cornification. On thorax iv -f- 

 V normal, ia and ib approximate, iia -|- iib. Spiracles flesh colored with dark riras. 

 Feet normal, short ; abdominal ones with complete circle of crochets around the flat 

 planta and small central dark spot. Skin finely granular, rather opaque. Tubercles 

 shining, iv and v somewhat remote, iv the higher, but both on a common shield. 

 Actual hair tubercles darker than the tubercle shields. Leg shields scarcely cornified. 

 The chin gland consists of two large, remote papillcC, wider apart than the thoracic feet. 



The larvae must feed mainly upon the sap, as they consume hardly 

 more of the interior of the gall than will suffice to give space for their 

 bodies. 



AN APPARENTLY NEW TORTRICID FROM 

 ' FLORIDA. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



Lophoderus amatana, sp. nov. 



Dark cinnamon brown, the thorax tufted with purple brown posteriorly. Fore 

 wings with three oblique shaded purplish brown bands, the first covering the basal 



