^o.ms. ^ NEW TORTRICID MOTHS— KEARFOTT. 3G1 



ANCYLIS GOODELLIANA Fernald. 



Ono nialo, May 7. 



ANCYLIS DIMINUATANA, new species. 



Head and thorax white, speckled with fuscous. Palpi white, tips 

 of scales above and two spots on outside fuscous. Anteuine oojden 

 brown. Fore wing creainy white; a seal-brown shade from base, over 

 middle of wing to end of cell, thence to apex. The lower edge of this 

 brown shade is sharply detined below, but diffuse and running into 

 ground color above. Its lower edge begins at base close to dorsal 

 margin and tends slightly upward to beyond middle of wing, thence 

 acutely upward in a nearly straight line into apex. The lower edge is 

 roundly indented twice on its inner half, where it turns up to apex and 

 opposite the outer margin. It is outlined outwardly ])y a luteous- 

 gi-ayish line. This, opposite the ocellic spot, is succeeded by a light- 

 brown line, and l)eyond and defining the ocellic spot is a short 

 luteous-gray line. The ocellic spot is but a shade of brown. All the 

 space along the dorsal margin and before the outer margin below the 

 middle brown streak is ground color, overlain with gray and ferrugi- 

 nous scales. The dorsal margin is dotted with black. Above the 

 brown shade on the inner half of costa is a streak of ground color, on 

 which are three l)lack dots in a line on upper vein of cell. At middle 

 of costa a faint brown line runs o])liquely into the brown shade; just 

 below the apex, six other pale-brown lines on costa, between it and 

 apex, start obliquely, but are all separated from the first by a paler 

 line just below costa. These spots are separated by short gray or 

 leaden lines, one just before apex being the best detined, and it is 

 shaded on both sides b}^ w^hitish brown. Cilia white inmiediately 

 below^ apex, with a fuscous dot, below light fuscous with ferrugnious 

 tinge, preceded by a dark-brown line, and divided by a slightly darker 

 fuscous line. Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia paler. Underside fore 

 wing smoky fuscous, whitish along costa, with a black apical dot and 

 dash of white in the cilia below it. Hind wing pale gray; cilia same. 

 Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft dull ocherous. Legs creamy white, 

 washed with light brown on tarsi. Expanse 13.5 to 15 mm. 



Twelve specimens: Tryon, North Carolina, May 12, Fiske; Winchen- 

 den, Massachusetts, Ma}^ 26 to June 2, F. A. Merrick; Plummers 

 Island, Maryland, and Washington, District of Columbia, May 19 to 

 June 1, A. Busck; Ramapo, New York, May 27, Kearfott; Caldwell, 

 New Jersey, May 17-22, Kearfott; Wellington, British Columbia, 

 June and July -1, Doctor Ta3dor and Bryant; Denver, Colorado, 

 April 23, Oslar. 



Coty2)cx.—Q'At. No. 8247, U. S. Nat. Mus., and in my collection. 

 In the National Museum there is a specimen of this species labeled 

 "diminuatana Wlsm.," but I have not been able to find the name or a 



