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COLEOPHORIDAE 



COLEOPHORA KEARFOTTELLA, 11. sp. 



Labial palpi without projecting tuft, smooth; both joints somewhat thick- 

 ened with scales ; terminal joint blunt, white. Antennae vvitli basal joint en- 

 larged with heavy scaling and the following two joints also somewhat thick- 

 ened, white with black annulations. Face silvery white. Head light golden 

 ochreous. Thorax white. Forewings light golden ochreous, the color becoming 

 gradually deeper towards apex, which is golden brown ; a broad margin along 

 costa from base to beyond apical fifth silvery white; dorsal edge from base 

 to cilia narrowly silvery white; a thin silvery white line along the fold from base 

 to the middle of the wing; the space between these latter two white lines is very 

 pale golden yellow; dorsal cilia whitish; apical cilia golden ochreous. Hind- 

 wings light silvery fuscous. Abdomen dusky white above, silvery white on the 

 underside. Legs white. 



Alar expanse: 11-12 mm. 



Habitat: Essex Co., N. Jersey. 



Foodplant : Salix. 



Type and cotypes in Collection Barnes; cotypes in \J. S, National Museum 

 (No. 22674). 



Named in honor of our late friend W. D. Kearfott, who bred this 

 interesting species and had it set apart as probably new. 



The case is curiously made of silk and budscales of the foodplant 

 into a rough, irregular, very deceiving cover, nearly as broad as long, 

 somewhat flattened and with the edges of the budscales protruding; 

 mouth at a very oblique angle, nearly horizontal. The species is near 

 to Coleophora cretaticostclla, Clemens, but of a darker, more reddish 

 yellow color and at once distinguished by its case ; it resembles also 

 the Californian C. accordclla. Walsingham, but is much smaller and 

 paler. 



B.ATRACiiEDRA KNABi Walsingham. PI. XXXVII, Fig. 4. 



1909 and 1914, Biol. Cent. Am., Vol. IV, pp. 9 and 320 PI. I, Fig. 8. 



1912, Busck. Smithsonian Misc. Coll , Vol. LIX, p. 2. 



This interesting and striking species, known hitherto from the 

 unique female type in U. S. National Museum from Cordova, Mexico, 

 has been recognized in good series of both sexes from Brownsville, 

 Texas, and from Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona. Specimens in U. S. 

 National Museum and in Collection Barnes. 



