Notes on North Aincrican Species of Nef>ticula. 



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Mine of .V curylifohelhi. 



This species was named from a 

 knowledge of the mine and larva 

 only. I have bred a single speci- 

 men from a mine on hazel answer- 

 ing the description of Clemens' 

 corylifoliella. While very closely 

 resemblmg iV. virgiiiiella, the moth differs from it decidedly in 

 the color of the antennal eye-caps. 



Palpi silvery gray. Tuft reddish ocherous. Antennie 

 bronzy black, eye-caps w^hitish ocherons, shading to black out- 

 wardly. Thorax deep bronzy brown, with purple and green 

 reflections. 



Fore wings deep bronze brown, w^ith purple and green re- 

 flections, the purple predominating beyond the fascia, which 

 is pale golden, very lustrous, and is placed just beyond the 

 middle of the wing. The fascia is almost straight, distinctly 

 narrower on the costa. Dorsal cilia gray, cilia around the 

 apex silvery white. Hind wings gray, with faint purple re- 

 flections. 



Fore pair of legs and hind legs, except the tarsi, purplish 

 black, middle pair of legs and hind tarsi silvery gray. Abdo- 

 men above purple, beneath paler and bronzy. 

 Expanse : 3.5 mm. 



The entire insect is somewdiat darker than N. virginieUa 

 but the dark antennal eye-caps in particular distinguish it from 

 that species. 



Nepticula rhoifoliella, n. sp. 



Palpi whitish. Tuft black. Antennae black, eye-caps 

 white. Thorax blackish purple. 



Fore wings very lustrous, base of the costa purple. A 

 large, semi-elliptical patch of scales just beyond the base of 

 the wing and resting on the dorsum, but not reaching to the 

 costa, is deep brilliant golden, shading along its edges into 

 bronze, which forms the general ground color of the wing. 



