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KiiliyposDiocuiiKt tririteJIa n. 8}). 



Male, female, 13-16 mm. Antennae whitish-ochreous, fuscous 

 above. Palpi white, median segment with large forward-projecting 

 tuft of hair-scales fuscous externally on basal half; terminal segment 

 minutely fuscous at apex. Head white, sometimes a few fuscous 

 scales on vertex. Thorax white, tipped with brown posteriorly, pata- 

 gia brown. Forewings distinctly three-banded longitudinally; costal 

 band white, not quite reaching base or apex; dorsal band extending 

 from base to and including apex, pinkish; between these bands a 

 more-or-less irregular light brown band extending from base and 

 terminating on costa just before apex, about its middle is a slight 

 widening into the white costal band; a series of black dots on margin 

 around apex and on termen, three of them on costa before apex; 

 cilia brown on costa before apex, on termen white with wide brown 

 basal band, dorsal cilia white. Hindwings and cilia white. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous. Forelegs fuscous, mid and hindlegs whitish mid- 

 tarsi spotted with fuscous. 



Ilab. Liluie, Kauai, March, 1912 ; 6 specimens reared from 

 mines in the fronds of ferns (Elaphoglossum reticulatum and 

 E. gorgoneum ) in the mountains in the vicinity of the head of 

 the Grove Farm ditch. 



Full-grown larva 8 mm. ; dirty whitish yellow ; head very 

 pale brownish, much retracted into segment 2 ; eyes dark brown ; 

 cervical shield concolorous; tubercles concolorous, ''i" and ^'ii" 

 almost in a longitudinal line, ^'iii" close above spiracle and a 

 little anterior of it, '4v-v" below spiracle and farther from it 

 than "iii" is; setae long, pale; spiracles minute, circular, pale; 

 abdominal prologs on segments 7-10. 



Pupa 7 nmi., light yellowish-brown; eyes black; wing- 

 sheaths and antennae-sheaths extend to apex of seventh abdom- 

 inal segment ; a cluster of bristles at apex of al)domen hooked 

 into silk cocoon. The pupa is formed within the mine in a 

 slight cocoon covered with pellets of frass. 



Gracilarla duhaiitieUa n. sp. 



Male, female, 7 mm. Antennae one and one-third, light fuscous. 

 Palpi whitish, a fuscous spot at apex of median segment and near 

 middle of terminal segment. Head dirty whitish. Thorax brownish- 

 ochreous. Forewings brownish-ochreous, with three outwardly oblique 

 white dorsal streaks, and two slender outwardly oblique white costal 

 streaks at middle and two-thirds of costa respectively; all of these 

 streaks margined with a few black or fuscous scales; three white 

 costal spots near apex; a spot of bluish scales at apex and a few 



