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The moth expands 19™, The head, thorax, and abdomen are densely covered 
with long hair-like scales, of a dull gray-brown color with bluish reflections. Basal 
half of primaries of similar color, but with more intermingling of blue and brown 
‘scales. About the middle the wing is crossed by a broad, irregularly outlined band 
of rich brown, sparsely intermingled with silvery scales, and the terminal third is 
quite evenly mottled in brown and leaden gray, the costal edge of this portion being 
ornamented with alternate oblique light and dark streaks extending about one- 
fourth across the wing; cilia bluish gray ; secondaries lustrous pale brown, shading 
to cinereous on costal edge ; cilia dingy white. 
Professor Fernald, to whom a specimen was shown, considers it iden- 
tical with Clemens’s S. salicicolana, which I believe breeds in willow galls, 
but Dr. Riley pronounces it distinct, and he has types of Clemens’s 
species. ; 
GELECHIA INTERMEDIELLA ? Chambers.—This pretty Tineid appears 
in its larval form on the tender leaves of apple early in May and again 
in September. It gnaws the parenchyma from the upper surface, giv- 
ing the leaves a burned and eroded appearance. 
Larva.—8™ in length when mature, slender, cylindrical, tapering slightly in both 
directions from middle ; incisions deep, giving it a submoniliform appearance. Gen- 
eral color bluish green, acquiring a purple hue at maturity, with faint longitudinal 
stripes of cream white. Head pale brown with a tinge of green, ornamented with 
cream-colored markings on each side and arow of graduated cream-colored dots down 
the middle of the face. First segment narrow, without perceptible shield. Thoracic 
legs long, whitish, proceeding from papillated projections on the ventral surface. 
This larva covers the leaves with fine web, in which it moves with 
great agility, and in which it rests suspended, without touching the 
surface of the leaf, except when feeding. It is semigregarious and very 
irregular in its development, some clusters of the leaves showing very 
recently hatched young, while on other clusters they will be full grown. 
It pupates on surface of the leaf under a little round cover of dense web, 
similar to those under which some spiders protect their eggs. The 
moths emerge in about 3 weeks after pupation and hibernate in the per. 
fect state. 
Adult.—A beautiful species, expanding 12 or 13™™, Head and thorax dark gray, 
more or less suffused with crimson; palpi dark gray, annulated with rosy white or 
pale pink. Ground color of primaries leaden gray and rosy white; scales about 
evenly intermixed. Three very irregular and variable, often interrupted, bands of 
rich olive brown cross the wing, intermingled with some light golden brown or 
ochreous scales; near the base and center of the wing these form quite distinct 
patches. The apical third of the wing is margined with alternate dark brown and 
rosy patches; cilia gray. Secondaries cinereous, with paler cilia. This species is 
closely allied to both roseosuffusella Clem., and rubensella Cham., resembling in colora- 
tion the latter and in size the former. Mr. Chambers says of it: ‘‘ Intermediate be- 
tween roseosuffusella Clem., and rubensella Cham., with one or the other of whieh it 
has hitherto been confounded. The third joint of the palpi is longer and more 
acute than in rubensella, more like that of roseosuffusella, but the fore wings are much 
less roseate than in either of the two other species, frequently showing no tinge of 
the roseate hue. * * * As in rubensella (and sometimes in roseosuffusella), the first 
dark band does not cover the base of the wing. The second band is like that of 
roseosuffusella, but the third extends across the wing, the dorsal portion being, how- 
ever, paler than the costal, and the costo-apical part of the wing is ochreo-fuscous. 
