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bent yellow hairs ; anterior pairallel lines and lateral grooves black. Par- 

 apsidcJ grooves very narrov^ cind continuous. Anterior peurcJlel lines 

 extending to the middle of the thorax. Lateral grooves long and sharply 

 defined. Scutellum color of the thorax, finely rugose, with two smooth, 

 oblique foveae at the base. Pleurae minutely aciculate, with a leirge 

 smooth, polished area, darker in color. Abdomen smooth red brown 

 becoming darker terminally. Legs pale yellowish brown, last pair darker. 

 Wings hycJine, veins yellowish brown, radial area almost closed, cubitus 

 continuous, areolet large. Length, 3 mm. 



Gall : On the terminal twigs of swamp white oak {Quercus platanoi- 

 des) early in June. Monothalamous, globular, and thin-shelled, contain- 

 ing no separated larval chamber. Green when fresh, brown or gray 

 when old. It is embedded in a cluster of short, lanceolate, aborted 

 leaflets, more or less concealing the gall. When mature it drops to the 

 ground, leaving the bunch of leaflets on the twig. Diameter, 3 mm. 

 Habitat : Fort Lee, New Jersey. (Type, coll. W. B.) 

 A pretty species readily known by its light brov^oi color, black anterior 

 parallel lines and lateral grooves, and yellow, silky hairs on the head and 

 thorax. Described from a single female. 



NOTES ON THE SPECIES OF GALASA WALKER 



(Lepidoptera, Pyralida) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Walker founded the genus Galasa (Cat. Brit. Mus., Lep. Het., xxxv, 

 1 80 1 , 1 866) for one species, G. ruhidana Walk, from Jamaica. Sir 

 G. F. Hampson recognized but this one species (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 694, 1897), mentioning also G. daulisalis Druce as unknown to him; 

 but from the figure it can have nothing to do with Galasa. However, 

 under Caphys he places another species, C. palmipes Felder and Rogen- 

 hofer, which agrees with Galasa superficially, while I have still another 

 species, caustalis, which Hampson places in Uliosoma, according to 

 labels by Mr. Wm, Schaus. The facts are, I believe, that Galasa varies 

 among the species in venation to a marked and unusual degree, while all 

 of the other characters, including the coloration, are decidedly uniform 

 eind stable. The venation seems constant enough, species by species, 

 but taken as a whole shows a wide range. In Hampson's table of the 



