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Head without ocelli, smooth with appressed scales. An- 

 tenna3 as long as the body, slightly serrated beneath towards 

 the tip ; basal joint rather long, smooth, slender. Labial 

 palpi smooth, moderately long, recurved, not ascending 

 higher than the vertex ; second joint slightly compressed, 

 slightly broader than the terminal joint, which is cylindrical, 

 about as long as the middle joint, of uniform diameter and 

 scarcely acute. Maxillary palpi short, distinct. Tongue 

 rather longer than the anterior femora, clothed with scales to 

 the tip, densely at the base. 



"Hi 2j£W. Amorphella* Fore-wings yellowish-fuscous, with a 

 1 rather large blackish-brown patch at the base of the wing, 

 somewhat varied with spots of the general hue, and a black- 

 ish-brown tuft, having the scales directed toward the tip of 

 the wing, on the basal third of the fold, and a smaller one 

 above it near the costa. Near the end of the fold is another 

 small tuft of the general hue, having the ends of the scales 

 tipped with dark brown, and in the middle of the wing, 

 nearly adjoining the latter, is a large tuft of the general hue. 

 Above the end of the fold is a small blackish-brown tuft, the 

 scales of which are not so much erected as in the other tufts ; 

 between this and the central tufts is a blackish-brown patch, 

 which sends a streak of the same hue into the fold. The 

 apical portion of the wing is somewhat discoloured with 

 brown, and along the inner margin, at the base of the cilia 

 are five or six black dots. Cilia dull testaceous. 



Antenna? fuscous. Head and thorax blackish-brown. 

 Labial palpi yellowish-fuscous. 



Mr. B. D. Walsh, to whose kindness I am indebted for 

 three specimens of this moth, informs me that the larva 

 burrows in a gall formed on the stem of Amorpha fruticosa, 

 and undergoes its transformation within it. 



* I received two specimens from Mr. B. D. Walsb. It is a handsome 

 insect, expanding 7 — 8 Hues. H. T. S. 



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