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worm Moth is well knowu to be greatly injurious to ripening fruit, especially to 6gs 

 by boring through the skiu of the fruit with their probosces and sucking the juice. 

 The Sap-beetles afterwards enter througli the opening made by the moth, simply hast- 

 ening the decay of the fruit. It is very probable that the injury to your figs has 

 been caused in this way ; and, if so, the only way to protect your trees will be to induce 

 the neighboring cotton planters to poison the Cotton Worm. — [September 30, 1886.] 



STEPS TOWARDS A REVISION OF CHAMBERS' INDEX* WITH 

 NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By Lord Walsixgham. 



[ Continued from pcuje 150. ] 



In addition to the species already knoun from North America (all of 

 which will be included in the finally revised Index which is proposed 

 to be published in portions as these papers proceed) I am now able to 

 give descriptions of several new species from different localities and to 

 add further notes to facilitate the recognition of already described 

 forms. As each genus is dealt with the portion of the Index referring 

 to it has been privately printed and each portion is therefore available 

 for publication at any moment ; but it has been thought advisable to 

 hold it back until a more considerable section of the whole has been 

 completed. 



DEPRESS ARIA Hw. 



Depressaria togata sp. n. 



Antenna', purplish-fuscous. 



Palpi, cinereous, speckled with fuscous externally on the second joint ; apical joint en- 

 tirely suffused with fuscous, with the exception of the extreme apex which is 

 ochreous. 



Head, dull grayish-ochreous ; face paler. " 



Thorax, cinereous speckled, with fuscous. 



Fore-wings, pale grayish-ochreous, thickly suffused and streaked with purplish-fus- 

 cous; the markings ill- defined, consisting of a dark fuscous patch at the base of 

 the dorsal margin, a dash of the same color immediately above the middle of the 

 wing at one-third from the base, followed by some pale grayish-ochreous scales; 

 a palo grayish-ochreous spot on the middle of the wing at about the end of the 

 cell is preceded and followed by fuscous scales, and beyond and above it are sev- 

 eral fuscous dashes radiating outwards to the costal and to the upper half of the 

 apical margin, where is a row of obscure fuscous spots preceding the somewhat 

 paler and mottled cilia. 



Hind-winfjs, pale shining whitish gray, with the cilia scarcely darker in which a slight 

 tinge of grayish-ochreous is traceable. 



Abdomen, grayish-ochreous. 



Exp. al., 20'""'. 



Habitat, Montana. 



^ypc, (?> Mas. fVlsm. 

 This species is distinguished by its very pale hind-wings, contrasting strongly with 



the dark fore-wings, which remind one much of the P^uropean alhipnnctella. The 



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* Index to the Described Tineiua of the United States and Canada. V. T. Chamb- 

 ers. Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv., IV (1), 1878. 



