244 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vi.lviif. 



eral may be found in a common web when small and still living on 

 the back of the leaf. Three stages were observed, all similar except 

 in size; widths of head .6, .8, i.i mm." 



Head rounded bilobed, clypeus reaching over halfway to vertex, mou h project- 

 ing ; a long dark spinneret ; antennce short, but palpi distinct ; lobes and clypeus 

 bulging, labrum distinctly emarginate ; green, ocelli black, labrum brown edged, setae 

 black ; width I.I mm. Body a little flattened, tapering a little at the anterior end and 

 more so posteriorly; anal feet divergent, projecting, the other abdominal ones short ; 

 thoracic feet large, bent at right angles centrally like claws. Segments 3annulate, 

 the anterior annulet very small. Tubercles small, concolorous, a little elevated; i 

 and ii in line, iv and v united ; on the thorax ia and ib united, iia and iib united and 

 iv and v likewise, all normal. Setse distinct, moderate, pale, but black on the con- 

 colorous and invisible cervical shield and anal plate. Green, clear, uniform, the 

 dorsal vessel darker, feet whitish gi^een. The active and sensitive larva spins its 

 delicate web with great rapidity. 



Cocoon a mass of moist silky web on the top of a leaf or other suitable place re- 

 sembling the larval tent, but much larger and containing centrally an imperfect tube 

 with a ribbon of white silk at the top. The pupa is pale green without marks and 

 can wriggle up and down the tubular part of the cocoon, at will." — (Harrison O. 

 Dyar. ) 



Food-plants : Ficus, spp. 



TINEID.E. 

 Leucoptera smilaciella, sp. nov. (Plate IX, Fig. 6.) 



Antennre golden white, basal joint enlarged to a considerable eye cap, silvery 

 white. Face smooth, silvery white. Head tufted, silvery white. Labial and maxil- 

 lary palpi obsolete. Thorax and fore wing silvery white ; from middle of costa ob- 

 liquely outwards reaching to the middle of the wing is a golden yellow streak with 

 parallel dark edges ; between this and apex is a triangular golden yellow spot also 

 thinly edged with black ; at tornus is a conspicuous deep black spot followed on the 

 outside by somewhat raised bronzy silvery scales, and on the inside and above sur- 

 rounded by a narrow golden yellow area. Just before apex is a longitudinal short 

 golden yellow streak ; apical cilia white with dark fuscous tips and two tranverse 

 dark fuscous streaks ; dorsal cilia gray. Hind wing dark purplish brown nearly black, 

 cilia a shade lighter. Abdomen dark fuscous above, light silvery fuscous below. 

 Anal tuft white ; legs golden white, posterior tibiae hairy. Alar expanse 7-5-8.5 mm. 



Habitat : District of Columbia, Pennsylvania. 



U. S. National Museum, type no. 5359. Co-types in collections 

 of Murtfeldt, Fernald, Dietz, Walsingham and Meyrick. Described 

 from many bred specimens. 



Food-plant : Sniilax glauca, and S. rofundifolia. 



The eggs, which are laid on the underside of a leaf singly, but 



