744 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voL.xxtv. 
25. DEPRESSARIA CANADENSIS, new species. 
Antenna* dark fu.scous with narrow indistinct black annulations. 
Labial palpi light ochreous, second joint evenly sprinkled with black 
on the outside; terminal joint with two broad black annulations, one at 
base and one at the middle and with extreme tip black. Face and 
tongue creamy white; head and thorax light grayish ochreous with a 
few darker reddish scales intermixed. Forewings light yellowish gray 
suffused with dark ochreous fuscous and li})e rally sprinkled with black; 
there is a perceptible rosy tint, particularly at base of dorsal edge, on 
the middle of the wing and at apical half of costaVedge. In the middle 
of the disk is a conspicuous l)lack dot preceded by a similar one nearer 
costa; at the end of the cell is another black dot surrounded by smaller 
groups of black scales; between these dots is an area of black, not 
strongly defined and linted round the edges with rose. Costal edge 
irregularly spotted with black and around the apical edge a pro- 
nounced row of black dots. 
Hindwings light whitish fuscous, cilia nearly white; on the under- 
side of the hindwing is an interrupted black line around the edge and 
an irregular sprinkling of black dots in the apical part. 
Alar expanse. — 17 mm. 
Hahitat. — Winnipeg, Manitoba. (A. W. Hanham.) 
Type.—^o. 6127, U.S.N.M. 
This species resembles somewhat Dejyrei^^aria cvreneUa Schiffermiller, 
but is a smaller and much more mottled insect. 
26. DEPRESSARIA LYTHRELLA Walsingham. 
DepresmrUt It/OireUa. Walsingham, Insect Life, I, 1889, p. 257. 
Food'plant. — Ly thrum alatnm. 
I am unacquainted with this species, except from the description. 
Ilahitat. — Illinois 
27. DEPRESSARIA POSTICELLA Walsingham. 
Depresmrla jJOi<(icell(i Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Load., 1881, p. 315, pi. xxxvi, 
fig. 5.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 1891, No. 5274. 
Foodplcm t. — Psovalia jyhymdes. 
Of this fine species, easily recognized by the anal dark cloud, the 
U. S. National Museum possesses a cotype from California, received 
from Lord Walsingham. There is also a series, bred by Mr. E. A. 
Schwarz, at Fresno, California, with laryw found by him on PsoraJia^ 
and a series bred in Colorado by Dr. Harrison ( i. L)3'ar, who has kindly 
communicated the following notes on the larva: 
Head rounded, bilobed; shields large, anal plate and thoracic feet black. Body 
dark, sordid, olivaceous green, the tubercles distinct, black, white ringed; joint 2 
pale in front. Tubercles iv and v in line, approximate, separated, but in a common 
