16 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



cous spot, two less distinct, roundish dots at end of cell, and beneath 

 these on the dorsal margin a small patch ; cilia gray, thinly dusted 

 in their basal portion with whitish scales, interspersed with pale fus- 

 cous, two or three ill-defined longitudinal lines towards the apex. Hind- 

 wings narrow, lanceolate, scarcely over \, gray, infuscate towards 

 the apex ; cilia 2, gray, with two or three longitudinal lines near the 

 apex. Abdomen fuscous ; anal bush ochreous, ventral surface pale 

 ochreous, more or less suffused with fuscous, except last two seg- 

 ments. Legs whitish, more or less densely suffused and speckled with 

 fuscous, tibiae at base, an oblique band of posterior tibiae above the 

 middle externally and end of tarsal joints, pale. Expansion 12.0-14.5 

 mm., 0.48-0.58 inch. 



Hab. — No exact locality given. 



Six specimens from the Nat. Mus. Coll., without locality 

 labels, were bred by Mr. Quaintance from apple, and it gives 

 me pleasure to name this species in his honor. The speci- 

 mens, which were not spread, vary more or less in distinc- 

 ness of markings as well as density of the fuscous dusting. 

 This species comes nearer to glandulella, from which it is at 

 once distinguished by the much narrower hindwings and 

 longer cilia of the same, its markings, though similar, are far 

 less pronounced ; in form of hindwings, it would appear to 

 be close to retectella, with which it agrees in size. 



4. V. nothrotes Wish. 



Lord Walsingham's description of this species is as fol- 

 lows : 



"Antennae pale slaty-brownish. Palpi grayish-brown, with whitish 

 sprinking. Head and thorax whitish, with grayish-fuscous speckling, 

 especially in a band across the front of the thorax and another across 

 the posterior end of the tegulse. Forewings dirty white, profusely 

 sprinkled with grayish-fuscous, of which a transverse fascia crosses the 

 wing at one-third ; this is slightly angulated outward in the middle, 

 and partially diffused outward in the middle and about the costa ; at 

 the end of the cell a somewhat less defined, straight, transverse fascia 

 occurs, absorbing the two spots which would otherwise appear at the 

 end of the cell, corresponding to a small discal spot at about the mid- 

 dle of the wing ; the apical area is thickly bestrewn and mottled with 

 grayish-fuscous ; cilia brownish-gray, sprinkled with whitish- and gray- 

 ish-fuscous atoms. Hindwings brownish-gray ; cilia slightly paler. 

 Abdomen slaty-gray, anal tuft paler. Legs pale, brownish-gray. Alar 

 expanse 12.0 mm." 



