580 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



has escaped iny observatioD. The larva, after cuttinji out of its disk, 

 lets itself dovvu by a thread, and in the middle of July the disks may 

 be found suspended under willows, as the larva lets itself down to the 

 surface of the ground. My specimens were taken on July 23, when 

 the mines were generally deserted.'' (Clemens.) 



55. Nepticula fuscotihieUa Clem. 



Though the food-plant and metamorphosis of this Tiueid were not 

 mentioned by Clemens (Tineiua, p. 182), iVlr. Chambers stated that the 

 larva lives in a linear mine bent back on itself. 



Moth. — Anteuuse dark fuscous; basal joiut silvery white. Head reddish yellow. 

 Fore wiugs purplish fuscous, with a rather broad, slightly oblique silvery baud 

 exterior to the middle of the wing. On the costa of the wiug the band is rather 

 nearer to the base than on the inner margin ; cilia pale grayish. Hind wings pale 

 gray, with pale-gray cilia. Thorax dark fuscous, with a purplish hue. Legs and 

 abdomen beneath yellowish, with a brassy luster; the hind tibiae fuscous. 



56. Gelechia fungivorella Cltiui.* 



The following account of this moth is from Clemens' Tineiua : 



My friend Mr. Benj. D. Walsh, of Rock Island, III., writes to me that "the larva 

 mines a cabbage-like gall, brassicoides peculiar to Salix lovgifolia, and a pine-cone- 

 like gall on Salix cordata named strobiloides by Osteu Sacken." The ornamentation of 

 the imago is similar to that of G. roseosuffusella, the larva of which inhabits the 

 fruit panicles of sumach. Imago occurs August 1 to 1.^. Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh, 

 Rock Island, 111. 



Moth. — Fore wings roseate-white, freely dusted with testaceous-brown along the 

 inner margin from the base to the tip of the wing, the costal half of the wing being 

 banded with alternate roseate-white dusted with brownish, and testaceous-brown 

 bands; near the base of the wing is an oblique testaceous band extended a little be- 

 yond the middle of the wing, margined externally by a roseate-white band, having a 

 central line of brownish atoms. Another testaceous band, placed about the basal 

 third of the costa, is oblique, and extends a little beyond the middle of the wing ; its 

 dorsal edge is convex and the costal edge concave ; it is broadest in the middle of the 

 wing and terminates in a point, just beneath which is a black or dark brown dot en- 

 circled with white or roseate-white. Towards the apex of the wing is a semi-circular 

 testaceous, costal patch margined with white or roseate-white. "The apical portion 

 of the wing is dusted freely with testaceous, and at the base of the cilia, near the 

 anal angle, are one or two black dots. Cilia testaceous, with a white patch beneath 

 the tip having a central dark-brownish cilial line, and a white or roseate- white patch 

 at the anal angle. 



Antennai dark brown, slightly annulated with shining white. Head whitish tinted 

 with fuscous. Labial palpi white ; second joint with three blackish rings, one at the 

 base, one in the middle and one near the tip ; terminal joint with four blackish rings, 

 one at the base, two in the middle, and one at the extreme tip. 



57. Gelechia salicifungieUa Clemens. 



" The larva," says Clemens (Tineina, p. 262), mines the same gall, 

 brassicoides, as O.fungivorella. Mr. Walsh bred six specimens, of which 

 he was kind enough to send me three. Although fungivorella is tinged 



* Of this I received two specimens from Mr. B. D. Walsh. The exp. al. is SJxG 

 lines.-H. T. S. 



