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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW TORTRICIDiE 

 FROM MEXICO. 



By August Busck, 



Wa HINGTON, D. C. 



Archips audaculana, new species. 



Labial palpi, face and head deep yeJlow mixed with red ; antennae brown ; tho- 

 rax whitish brown. Fore wings of female with costal edge strongly arched at base 

 and with apical half strongly concave ; apex somewhat protruded ; termen sinuate 

 below apex and bulging out below ; dorsal edge straight ; light deer brown, faintly 

 and evenly dotted with scattered black atoms ; at basal third is an indistinct, out- 

 wardly oblique, costal streak of a somewhat darker brown ; just before the middle of 

 the wing is a similarly colored larger oblique costal streak, terminating on the fold, 

 and at apical third is an outwardly angulate faint darker brown fascia across the 

 wing diffused on its outer edge and more or less suffusing the entire apical part of the 

 wing. 



Hind wings whitish, mottled on apical half with ill-defined transverse dark fus- 

 cous spots ; under side with brown striation along costal and apical edges and with 

 three or four more prominent dark fuscous round dots in a longitudinal line on the 

 middle of the wing. Alar expanse, 30-33 mm. 



Habitat. — Orizaba, Mexico (R. Miiller, collector) ; Jalapa, 

 Mexico (W. Schaus collection). 



Type. — Female, U. S. National Museum, No. 10925. 



This species evidently comes near Archips {Caccecia) patulana 

 Walker (Cat. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., XXIII, 325, 1864). Besides Lord 

 Walsingham's figure oi patulafta (111. Lep. Het. Br. Mus., IV, Plate 

 LXI, Fig. I, 1875) I have a recent hand painted figure, made from 

 the type in the British Museum . There are several discrepancies between 

 these two figures but they both agree with the descriptions of Walker 

 and Walsingham in having immaculate hind wings. This then will 

 furnish probably the easiest point of distinction from audaculana, 

 which has transverse blackish striation on both sides of the wing. 

 Audacu/afia moreover is a smaller species with more whitish hind wings. 



Tortrix animosana, new species. 



Labial palpi, head and thorax deep golden saffron yellow. Antennae slightly 

 annulated with fuscous. Ground color of fore wings deep golden saffron, broken by 

 an extensive, irregular, sharply limited, light purplish-yellow design, emphasized by 

 a conspicuous striation of deep black transverse lines ; this darker design covers more 

 than half the wing area ; it extends over basal third of the wing except for an 

 unmottled yellow costal spot at base ; then it narrows to a central streak, which 

 broadens out again at the end of the cell and sends one broad branch obliquely 



