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tassel, composed of a thick mass of velvety needle- like leaves. This 

 tassel is webbed together by a small green larva, that partially ex- 

 cavates the tip of the twig and feeds close to the bases of the leaves. 



The majority had pupated by the first of July in a tough compact 

 little cocoon well hidden in the mass ; the first moth issued July 3 

 and continued until July 17. 



Three different species of hymenopterous parasites were bred from 

 this species, namely, Iseropus inquisitor ^tdiy, Temehuha nartii K^vi\., 

 Protapanteles caccecice Riley. 



Anacampsis coverdalella, sp. nov. Plate IX, Fig. 15. 



Head : closely appressed scales, thorax dark purplish-brown. Palpi same color, 

 slender, long pointed. Antennae : basal two fifths same color, outer three fifths 

 canary yellow, length tour fifths of wing. Front wing : base from costa to inner 

 margin dark purplish-brown, from base to oucer fourth canary yellow, outer fourth 

 same as base and thorax — both division lines vertical from costa to inner margin, 

 slightly serrate. The yellow color along costa a shade paler than below median line. 

 Cilia very short, unicolorous with adjacent portion of wing. Underside brownish 

 fuscous shading into darker gray fuscous beyond outer third ; a small basal costal 

 patch of nearly black purple brown. Hind wing fuscous, cilia slightly paler and as 

 long as breadth of wing ; underside the same. Abdomen : first two abdominal seg- 

 ments canary yellow, others purplish-brown, same as thorax. Underside fuscous. 

 Legs fuscous, tarsi and spurs purplish-brown, nearly black. Alar expanse 1 1.5 mm. 



Specimens collected by George Coverdale, Natchitoches Parish, 

 La., after whom I take pleasure in naming this distinctively marked 

 species. Type U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 6967. Cotype collection Kearfott. 



Epimenia cicutaella, sp. nov. Plate IX, Figs. 12, 15 and 16. 



Head : closely appressed scales, fuscous, each scale tipped with a minute dot of 

 brown — making a finely speckled appearance. Thorax and patagia the same, but 

 the latter a darker fuscous. Labial palpi long, recurved, apical joint about half second, 

 thickened with loose scales, rather obtuse; yellowish fuscous inside, lower edge 

 tipped with dark brown ; outside same but much darker, apical joint dark brown, with 

 minute yellowish specks. A narrow ring of yellow on middle joint at outer end. 

 Antennae about three quarter length forewing, basal joints slightly enlarged, dark 

 brown, outer joints ringed with brown and pale gray. Forewing creamy white, 

 irrorated with brown and black dots. The brown color is massed into a smoky 

 brown shade on and parallel to costa beginning just before half and extending to 

 outer two thirds, the shade is darkest brown along median line, its inner edge extends 

 obliquely to inner margin and is there accentuated by largest dentate pencil of scales 

 referred to below ; the lower edge of shade is sharply defined by paler ground color, 

 just below median line, somewhat reniform, with inner lobe twice length of outer. 

 Beyond this in apical third along median line is another smoky brown shade longer 

 than wide, and a very small one just beyond base on median line. At base of wing is 



