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granate apple, April 21, 1879." Another specimen in my 

 collection, also a male, from Brownsville, Texas, is much 

 smaller and less distinctly marked. 



Lord Walsingham's statement concerning the palpi "ter- 

 minal joint more than two-thirds the length of the median," 

 refers to the female. 



What Chambers meant by his statement, " the fact that 

 the submedian vein of the forewing gives off a branch to the 

 dorsal margin from about the middle which I have not ob- 

 served in any other Tineid " is difficult to explain, as neither 

 Mr. Busck nor myself have been able to discover such a 

 vein. 

 Z. coccivorella Ch. 



I give here Mr. Chambers' short description: "As men- 

 tioned in the description of citricolella, this species, of which 

 I have seen two damaged females, has a tuft projecting from 

 the basal joint of the antennae. Face elongate and narrow, 

 more convex than in citricolella. It is smaller and not so 

 slender. Submedian vein of forewing not branched. It is 

 sordid whitish with silken lustre, dusted with fuscous, a fus- 

 cous streak on forewing at base of fold, one near the base 

 within the costal margin, apical part of wing densely dusted 

 with fuscous. Hindwings stramineous." 



" Comstock informs me that the larva lives on a large 

 coccus on oak." 



Lord Walsingham* makes the following note on this 

 species : Type. — A female. Habitat. — Cedar Keys, Florida. 

 Larva in coccid-scales on oak {Kermes, species, near pall idus 

 Reaumur). Collected in March; issued between April 1-10. 

 This species is omitted from Dyar's list. If the type is still 

 extant, there should be no difficulty in placing it in its proper 

 genus. Chambers' reference to the neuration is doubtless 

 incorrect." 



I have no comments to make. The type is not in the Nat. 

 Mus. Coll. Notwithstanding the difference in their larval 

 habits I have a suspicion that coccivorella is only a varietal 

 form of, if not identical with, citricolella. As I have not seen 

 the former, this is merely conjectural. 



* Proc. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXIII, p. 204. 



