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NOTES ON COLEOPHORA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO 

 NEW SPECIES (MICROLEPIDOPTERA) 



By Annette F. Braun 



Coleophora pruniella Clemens. 



Coleophora pruniella Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., I, 79, 

 1861; Tin. No. Am., 167, 1872; Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 XXIII, 309, 1873 ; Walsingham, Proc. U. S. N. M., XXXIII, 216, 

 1907 ; Dyar, List N. A. Lep., No. 6034, 1902. 



In his description of the case of this species, Clemens refers to 

 the ''tail-like appendage," and one would expect that this character 

 would be immediately recognized and serve as an undoubted means 

 of identifying the species w^hen rediscovered. It is the possession 

 of this characteristic "tail" that has chiefly led me to believe that 

 the species described below is the true Coleophora pruniella of 

 Clemens. As it will be seen from the description which follows, 

 it bears no resemblance to the species described by Lord Walsing- 

 ham under the name pruniella Clemens and Walsingham, which 

 was bred on Primus demissa, Placer County, California. I pro- 

 pose the name Coleophora deniissella for the California species. 



Antennae with the basal joint gray, slightly thickened with 

 scales, without a tuft; the following three or four joints are gray, 

 the remainder almost pure white ; all are conspicuously annulated 

 with a dark gray, almost black color. Second joint of the palpi 

 whitish with some dark gray scales externally, and with a minute 

 projecting tuft ; third joint dark gray. Head whitish gray. 



Thorax and fore wings gray, sometimes brownish tinged, the 

 scales somewhat darker at their tips. Cilia concolorous. Hind 

 wings and cilia almost concolorous with the fore wings. Abdomen 

 gray, with yellow anal tuft in the male. Fore and middle legs 

 in large part fuscous, with the tips of the joints white ; hind legs 

 white, tibiae clothed above with long fuscous hairs, tarsi externally 

 dusted with fuscous. 



Expanse: 12.5-13 mm. 



The above description is made from three specimens (two males 

 and one female) bred on wild cherry, Pruniis serotina, at Cincin- 



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