206 REPORT OP THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



scarcely excLsed beneath the tip. The antennae are uiinntely pectinated and micro- 

 scopically pnhescent, ochreous, dotted with fuscoua ca the upper surface, and with 

 the upper surface of the basal joint fuscouH. Abdomen oclireoua dotted with fuscous. 

 Legs stained with fuscous on their aaiterior surfaces. Al. exp. |i- inch (17 to 20"""., 

 J. H. C). 



Note. — Since the above tlescription of ^^. ciirifoliella was ]irepared, I have received 

 a note from Mr. Stainton, in which he states tliat "The Nothris from kaf buds of 

 orange trees is somethhig quite unknown to mo. Your sltetch of the fore wing is quit© 

 in the style of iV. Diirdhamdla." 



THE ORANGE CASE-UEAiJlNG TINEID. 



{Coleotcchnites citriella, Chambers [new species].) 



Order Lepidopteea; family Tineidab. 



At Manatee, Fla., in the latter part of April, I found upon the trunk 

 of an orange tree the case of a Tiueid larva. This case was rather slen- 

 der, ll"*"" (.43 inch) long, and rather pointed at the hinder extremity. 

 It was dark gray in color, resembling the bark upon which it was found, 

 and was apparently composed of small bits of lichens and excremental 

 pellets, with much gray silk. The moth issued March 6, and upon 

 being referred to Mr. Chambers proved to be a new species representing 

 a new genus. The following are Mr. Chambers' descrii)tions : 



CoLEOTECHNiTKS Chambers (new genus). 



Fore wings lanceolate; the cell closed ; the subcostal gives oil' a branch about its 

 middle and then others near to its tip; the last one giving off a branch behind which 

 it becomes furcate with one branch to each margin ; median two branched, and the 

 discal sends a branch to the dorsal margin. Submedian furcate at the base. Hind 

 wings about as wide as fore wings; cell indistinctly closed; svibcostal with a branch 

 to each margin before the tip; median then branches, a single discal branch; sub- 

 median and internal veins indistmct; two folds thi'ough the discal cell; hind margin 

 somewhat excavated beneath the tip. 



Head depressed; forehead obtuse; tongue moderately long: no maxillary palpi; 

 labial palpi porrected, the second joint with a tuft which spreads both above and be- 

 low the ajjex ; third joint deflexed, shorter than the second; antennae simple, more 

 than half as long as the fore wings. 



C. ciTKiELLA Chambers (n. sp.). 



"Pale sordid ochreous ; there is a fuscous spot near the top of the third iialpal joint; 

 antennae pale sordid ochreous annulate with fuscous ; fore wings pale sordid ochreoua 

 irrorate with fuscous (especially so along the disc) but paler on the dorsal margin. 

 There are three dark-brown or blackish oblique costal streaks reaching the middle 

 and then produced backwards, the last one produced back to the apex. The first of 

 these streaks is near the base of the win^, and extends along the costa to the base, 

 the second before the middle, and the third at about the apical third of the wing 

 length. The apical part of the wing is darker than the remainder. Abdomen and 

 legs pale sordid ochreous, the latter annulate with fuscous and the first and second 

 pairs dark fuscous on their anterior surfaces. Al. ex. not quite half an inch. — From 

 Florida. 



Professor Comstock informs me that the larva lives in a case, of which he sent me 

 an example, and that it feeds iiijon the orange. The (.-ase is an oblong cone»of silk 

 lined externally with fragments of frass and other lUbris. 



BLASTOBASIS CITRICOLELLA Chambers (new ppeci'es.) 



Order Lepidoptera ; family TiNEiDAE. 



From a dry orauge which was found at Jackson \ille, Fla., in the lat- 

 ter part of January, and i)reserve(l on account of its beiug infested by 

 a small beetle {Aracocerusjasclcidatus), there issued rather unex])ectedly 

 on March 17 a small gray Tineid moth, which was joferred to Mr. Cham- 



