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the disk. Hind-wings dark fuscous, cilia the same. Feet 

 pale yellowish, the ends of middle and posterior tibiae touched 

 with fuscous; the middle tarsi fuscous externally, and the 

 hind tarsi banded with fuscous at the base. 



Nepticula, Zeller. 



, JV. rubifoliella. Head dark luteous. Palpi somewhat 

 paler luteous. Antenna? luteous, basal joint silvery-white. 

 Fore-wings blackish-brown, with a rather narrow, curved 

 silvery band about the middle of the wing. The band is 

 concave toward the base of the wing and shows a tendency 

 to be interrupted in the middle. Cilia whitish. Hind- wings 

 grayish, cilia the same. 



I have very carefully compared this insect with the descrip- 

 tion and delineation of N. angulifasciella, of Stainton, in the 

 first volume of " The Natural History of the Tineina," and 

 though unwilling to believe the fact, I cannot resist the con- 

 clusion, that it is the same species. I have not named the 

 species in accordance with this conviction, because as yet 

 I have secured but a single specimen.* 



The larva mines the leaf of blackberry in September. It 

 makes a blotch mine on the upper surface of the leaf, begin- 

 ning as a slender gallery, extending quite a distance, usually 

 along a vein of the leaf, before being enlarged into a blotch. 

 The body of the larva tapers posteriorly, the terminal rings 

 being attenuated ; colour pale green, with a bright dark-green 

 vascular line; head greenish-brown and small. The larva 

 was not taken from the mine for description. It leaves the 

 mine very early in October to spin an oval, very dark reddish- 

 brown cocoon, and appears as an imago during the latter part 

 of May, or early in June. There is therefore, in all pro- 

 bability, a summer brood, which may be found in July and 

 August, if the conjecture is correct. 



I have . no doubt that subsequent observation will prove 

 this insect to be the same as Angulifasciella, and I am no 



* See ante, p. 42. H. T. S. 



