new Xorth- American Insects. 403 



X. — Two new Case-hearing Lepidoptera. 



Coleophora suwdicola, sp. n. 



Expanse about 8 millim. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and primaries white; second- 

 aries and all the fringes very pale ochreous. Primarie 

 without streaks or lines, but conspicuously, though irregu- 

 larly, speckled with black scales. Palpi clothed with white 

 scales, but the penultimate segment on the outer side with a 

 distinct black streak, running up to the small but well-formed 

 apical tuft. Antennae ringed with black and white, the ex- 

 treme base rather thickly clothed with white scales. 



Case about 5 millim. long and 1 broad, cigar-shaped, dark 

 brown, roughened, the mouth like that of a Clausilia shell ; 

 hind end tricarinate. 



Hab. Common on Su&da at Mesilla Park, New Mexico 

 (CklL). Moths emerging at the middle of August. 



1 will take this opportunity to mention that Lycosna exilis 

 breeds in numbers on the same Suceda plants ; this is quite a 

 new food-plant for it. 



Coleophora atripltcivora } sp. n. 



Expanse 18 millim. 



Head and thorax above and primaries white, with a delicate 

 ochreous tint. Secondaries, abdomen, legs, and underparts 

 of body silvery white ; hind tibiae pale ochreous, clothed with 

 long white hair. Fringes pale, faintly greyish, tinged with 

 ochreous ; fringe on primaries at its longest longer than the 

 greatest diameter of the wing. Primaries apparently without 

 streaks, but a close examination shows that the courses of 

 the veins are broadly ochreous-tinged, while the intervals are 

 narrowly white, producing an obscure longitudinal streaking, 

 •which is somewhat intensified by the fact that the intervals 

 are peppered with minute dark grey specks. Palpi quite 

 h ng, the penultimate segment with a well-marked terminal 

 brush of scales. Antennae delicately annulate with white and 

 pale grey, the basal two fifths heavily clothed (especially 

 above) with ochry-white scales, so as to appear considerably 

 thickened. Abdominal segments 2 to 6 each with a pair of 

 longitudinal narrow brown (*. e. scaleless) marks, one on each 

 side of the median line. 



Case cigar-shaped, 12 millim. long, 3 broad; white, with 

 the faintest yellowish tinge, roughened, tricarinate at hind 



