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dark shadings. Body yellowish-gray with bright buff anal tuft. Legs 

 agreeing in color with under surface, tibiae, especially of hinder pair, 

 densely clothed with long but appressed hairs." 



Hab. — Missouri. 



The larva, about 8 mm. long when full grown, is yellowish- 

 green, head and dorsal part of first segment black, eats into 

 the buds of both flowers and leaves of apple. 



A cotype specimen in the Nat. Mus. Coll. scarcely agrees 

 with the description, and still less with the figure as given 

 by Miss Murtfeldt, the latter evidently had been reproduced 

 from a photograph. This specimen presents a basal space, 

 sharply limited externally by an angulated line, the summit 

 of which is a little above the fold. This space is paler, uni- 

 formly grayish-fuscous ; immediately beyond it and a little 

 above the fold is a dark spot ; remainder of wing mottled 

 with fuscous, two spots at end of cell. It rather strongly 

 resembles Hoi. modestella Clem., but lacks the dark patch in 

 the basal space. 



Since the foregoing has been written I have been enabled 

 through the courtesy of Prof. Alex. D. MacGillivray, of 

 Cornell University, to examine the apparently unique type- 

 specimen now the property of the above-mentioned institu- 

 tion. It is a male, faded and in poor condition, right fore- 

 wing wanting, labial palpi ditto. Head ochreous. Antennas 

 moderately thick, excision above the basal joint not pro- 

 found ; cilia fully \. The "leaden-gay" border of anterior 

 thoracic margin is rather purplish-brown, well marked, and 

 rather behind the anterior margin, the latter being like the 

 remainder of the thorax, ochreous. Forewings rather short 

 and broad, very obtusely pointed, without paler basal space ; 

 sordid ochreous-gray, suffused with somewhat darker patches, 

 discal spot small, though distinct ; two spots at end of cell, 

 the lower one larger, triangular, and distinct, in line with 

 these two spots, equidistant, and above is another small spot, 

 a trifle beyond these and within each margin is another 

 small dot. These five spots are spoken of in the description 

 as the base of the apical third, and are distinctly recognizable. 

 Hindwings almost as wide as the forewings, grayish dusted 



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