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face silvery. Thorax dark bronzy brown. Fore ivings dark bronzy 

 brown, witb two narrow transverse fasciae, the one before, the 

 other scarcely beyond the middle, and a short dorsal streak from 

 the anal angle shining silvery metallic, a strong snow-white spot 

 running through the costal cilia ; cilia bronzy brown. Exp. al. 

 7*5 mm. Hind ivings and cilia slightly paler bronzy brown. 

 Abdomen, purplish fuscous. Legs brownish : the tarsal joints 

 broadly banded with whitish ; two small white spots at the end 

 of the tibiae. 



Type, S Mus. Hedemann. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 10 IV. (Hedemann). Unique. 



This species cannot be referred with certainty to Lithocolletis 

 as the underside of the head is injured in pinning. 



224. Lithocolletis desmodiella, Clem. 



= GREGARIELLA, Ml't. 10 



Lithocolletis desmodiella, Clem. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc, Phil. XI. 318, 

 319, 320 (1859) l ; Stn. Tin. N. Am. pp. xiii, 37, 63, 65, 68 

 (1872) 2 ; Chamb. Can. Ent. III. 127, 162 (1871) 3 : V. 47 

 (1873) 4 ; E.&B.Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXXVII. 227 (1876) 5 ; Chamb. 

 Bull. U.S. Cr.G. Surv. IV. 110 6 , 154 (1878) 7 : Jr. Cin. Soc. N. H. 

 II. 189-90 (1880) 8 . Lithocolletis gregariella, Mrt. Can. Ent. XIII. 

 245-6 (1881) 9 . Lithocolletis desmodiella, Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 X. 202 (1882) 10 : Ins. Life, II. 119 (1889) n : III. 328. No. 52 

 (1891) 12 ; Bilev, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am. 108. No. 5850 

 (1891) 13 . 



Hab. United States 1 " 13 . Larva, inf. Desmodium viridijlorum 

 1>5 ' n , spp. 3 ' 6 ' 8 ; Phasceolus paucijJorus 9U , sp. 8 , VII. -IX." 3 ' 5 . 

 Imago, spring 9 ; midsummer 9 . West Indies — St. Thomas, 

 11 III.-10 IV. (Gudmann, Hedemann); Larva, Centrosema vir- 

 ginianum ( Gudmann). 



Bred by Mr. Gudmann and Baron von Hedemann from larvae 

 feeding on Centrosema virginianum. 



225. Lithocolletis argentierontella, sp. n. 



Antennee brownish, faintly annulated. Palpi pale saffron. 

 Head and face shining silvery white, the head with a saffron 

 spot behind the white tuft. Thorax pale, saffron. Fore ivings 

 pale saffron, with four transverse white fascia 1 , slenderly dark- 

 margined internally : the first before the middle, slightly curved 

 outwards, the second at the middle, straight, the third at the com- 

 mencement of the costal cilia tending inwards to the dorsum, the 

 fourth a little before the apex running through the cilia, which 

 are saffron beyond it at the apex but greyish before it on the 

 dorsum. Exp. al. 5 mm. Hind ivings and cilia pale greyish. 

 Abdomen greyish. Legs white, with pale saffron aunulatious. 



Type, <S Mus. Hedemann. 



Hab. West Indies — St. Thomas, 11 I1I.-2 IV. (Hedemann). 

 Two specimens. 

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