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Depressaria fernaldella sp. n. 



Antennw, dull cinereous, basal joint touched with tawny and fuscous scales. 



Palpi, tawuy-reddish beneath, above pale cinereous mottledaud blotched with black- 

 ish scales on the second joint; a spot at the base, a broad ring above the middle 

 and a minute spot at the apex of the terminal joint, also blackish. 



Head, tawny-reddish ; face and the clothed base of the haustellnni pale cinereous. 



Tliorax, tawny-reddish, mixed with fuscous. 



Fore-wings, tawny-ied, speckled with blackish and pale cinereous scales; the costal 

 portion of the wing above the cell from the base to beyond tlie middle is of a paler 

 tawny-red than the remainder of the wing surface, and is mottled with fuscous 

 along the costa ; before the middle are two small spots of raised fuscous scales, 

 nearer to the costa) than to the dorsal margin, the lower one being farther from 

 the base than the upper and immediately followed by a streak of jiale cinereous 

 scales; some bright reddish scales lie between the two discal spots and on and 

 about the fold; slightly beyond the middle is a conspicuous, roundish, pale cine- 

 reous spot, above and beyond which is a profuse sprinkling of pale cinereous, min- 

 gled with blackish-fuscous scales reaching to the costal margin but not to the 

 apex ; at the base of the dorsal margin is a small patch of pale cinereous the outer 

 edge of which is straight; cilia greyish, sprinkled with reddish. 



Hindwi)igs, pale cinereous. 



Abdomen, pale cinereous with a slight ochreous tinge. 



Legs, hind tibiae mottled with grayish. 



Exp. al., 23™™ 



Habitat, Orono, Me.; Wisconsin. 



Types, $ $ , Mus. Whm. 



I have received this species from Wisconsin, from the late H. K. Morrison, and also 

 from Maine, from Professor Fernald, who was at one time disposed to regard it as hi- 

 larella Z., from which, however, it is totally distinct. The species appears to be not 

 very far remote from hypericella, but it is somewhat larger and paler. 



I believe that the description of the supposed larva of hiktrclla (Coquillett, Pap. 

 Ill, 98) really refers to this species, inasmuch as Fernald had sent specimens of this 

 insect to several correspondents, myself among the number, under the name of Zel- 

 ler's si^ecies, and had not the Zeller collection subsequently come into my possession I 

 should probably have failed to recognize the mistake. 



Depressaria parilella Tr., var. novo-niundi Wlsm. 



In the P. Z. S. for 1881, pp. 3i7-18, I discussed the question of the identity of the 

 North American Depressaria, for which I suggested the name novo-mundi, with D. par- 

 ilellaTr., a well-known European form. 



After re-exatniuing a full series of specimens from both continents, I am not pre- 

 pared to argue that those from Oregon or from the Eastern States should be regarded 

 as anything more than local forms of pariieJla, especially as Zeller (Lin. Ent., IX, 283 

 et eeq.) describes no less than five difi^'erent varieties of the species known in Europe. 

 The only points in which the American specimens differ from those in the Zeller col- 

 lection are iu the slight dusting of fuscous scales around the apical joint of the palpi 

 and in the somewhat more elongate appearance of the fore-wings as well as in their 

 darker color. This species should therefore be referred to as D. parileUa Tr., var. 

 novo-mundi Wlsm. 



I am able to add another species to the record of European forms occurring on the 

 ■west coast of North America. I have received from Mr. Walker three specimens un- 

 ■doubtedly referable to D. ciniJloneUa Z. These were beaten out of fir October, 1882, 



