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Meyrick's interpretation of the venation of his AustraHan 

 genera is very singular and I venture to beheve that he would now 

 analyze it otherwise and in conformity with the above. 



One of the American species, Carposina crescentella Walsingham, 

 has veins 3 and 5 separate in the hind wings, while the type of the 

 genus and the other known species have these veins connate; 

 but the characters are in all other respects identical and I do not 

 believe the difference is of more than specific value in this group. 



The two American species at present named may be separated 



thus: 



With white dark-margined crescent-shaped mark at end of cell . . crescentella 

 Without such mark; wings much broader fernaldana 



Carposina crescentella Walsingham. 



Carposina crescentella, Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, x., p. 189, 1882-; 

 Dyar, List. N. Am. Lep., No. 5475, 1903. 



In U. S- National Museum are specimens of this easily recog- 

 nized species from New Brighton, Pa. (Merrick) and from Ottawa, 

 Canada (C H. Young). 



Carposina fernaldana, new species. 



Labial palpi in the male blackish with inner side and tip of terminal joint 

 dirty white; in the female they are black with upper tuft on second joint and 

 tip of terminal joint dirty white. Face, head and thorax whitish, sprinkled 

 with light fuscous. Fore wings whitish, liberally sprinkled with light ochreous 

 fuscous; basal third of costal edge black, followed by equidistant, rather ill- 

 defined, black spots on the entire costal edge and around apex to tornus. 

 Reaching from the middle of costal edge to apical third is a black, more or less 

 interrupted, crescent-formed marking, the most persistent part of which is 

 two short longitudinal black lines just above the cell ending in a scale tuft; 

 other tufts of raised scales are found on the middle of the cell, just below the 

 end of the cell and below the fold. Hind wings whitish fuscous; abdomen, 

 light fuscous. Legs, black exteriorly, shining ochreous white on the inner 

 side; tarsal joints with indistinct darker annulations. 



Alar expanse: 15-20 mm. (the males being the larger). 



Habitat: Plummers Island, Maryland (Busck) ; Oak Station, 

 Pa. (Marhoff); New Brighton, Pa. (Merrick); St. IvOuis, Mo. 

 (McElhose, Busck) ; Chicago, 111. (Kwiat). 



Type: d' and 9 U. S. N. M. No. 10245. 



I take pleasure in naming this very distinct and pretty species 

 in honor of the American authority in this family, my esteemed 

 friend, Professor C. H. Fernald. 



