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of abdomen pale straw. Front and middle legs dark brown, 

 except the tarsi, which are white, dotted at the tip of each 

 joint, with dark brown. Hind legs with yellow gray tarsi 

 and tibiae, femora straw color shaded with brown near base. 

 Expanse, 10 mm. 



Type. Cat. No. 19328, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Described from one of a series of four specimens reared 

 from cones on Myrica cerifera h., collected on June 29, 1912. 

 Adults emerged July 11 to 18. 



The mines made by this species are on the under side of the 

 leaf and are very small. There is first a narrow linear mine, 

 a few millimeters long, ending in a blotch about 3 or 4 mm. 

 in length by 1^/2 to 2 mm. in breadth, usually near an edge of 

 the leaf. The cones are made by rolling the tip of the leaf 

 downward. 



The general appearance of this species is that of a very 

 small and pale form of elongella L. 

 Gracilaria flavimaculella, new species. 



Face pale yellow brown, mixed with dark brown ; head simi- 

 larly marked, but with more dark brown ; thorax pale yellow- 

 ish brown with a few dark brown scales ; antennae pale yellow 

 brown, ringed with dark brown between the joints; labial 

 palpi straw color heavily shaded outwardly with brown, the 

 terminal joint completely brown outwardly, except at the ex- 

 treme base and apex ; maxillary palpi straw colored shaded 

 with brown ; fore wings brown, with somewhat diffuse mark- 

 ings of pale yellow brown, the yellowish color being most evi- 

 dent along the fold, the dorsal margin, and the costal margin 

 beyond the middle, where it has the appearance of two indis- 

 tinctly outlined spots ; abdomen dark brown above, with anal 

 tuft and under side pale yellow brown tending toward straw 

 color ; front and middle legs with straw colored tarsi marked 

 with brown at the joints, the tibiae and femora dark brown ; 

 hind legs straw color, the tarsi and femora slightly shaded and 

 the tibiae almost completely covered with dark scales. Cilia 

 gray with diffuse blackish lines toward the apex along the 

 dorsal margin ; hind wings dark smoky gray, with paler cilia. 

 Expanse, 10 mm. 



