288 AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Lithocolletis kearfottella Braun. 



Plate XXI, Fig. 16. 

 Lithocolletis kearfottella Braun, Ent. News, xix, 100, 1908. 



Antennae grayish, darker toward the tips. Palpi shining white, with a slight 

 golden tinge. Face shining white, with a slight golden tinge; tuft reddish saf- 

 fron, scales darker toward the tips. 



Thorax and forewings shining reddish saffron. A white band extends across 

 the anterior margin of the thorax, passes over the patagia and is continuous with 

 a basal white streak. The basal streak extends for one-third the wing length, 

 nearly parallel to the costa and is dark margined above. Four costal arid three 

 dorsal shining white streaks, all dark margined internally. The first costal 

 streak at the basal third is placed very obliquely, and is produced along the costa 

 to the basal fourth. The first dorsal streak at the basal fourth is very large and 

 very oblique. Near the costa its apex sometimes unites with that of the first 

 costal streak, forming a very acute angle. The remaining three costal streaks 

 are placed at equal distances from each other and from the first costal streak. 

 The second costal streak is almost perpendicular to the costa and wedge-shaped. 

 Opposite to it on the dorsum, before the tornus, is the larger almost perpendicu- 

 larly placed wedge-shaped second dorsal streak. The third costal streak is 

 inwardly oblique, curved, its apex pointing toward the apex of the third dorsal 

 streak, which is small, wedge-shaped and placed beyond the tornus. The fourth 

 costal streak is very oblique and curved. A large black apical dot. A brown 

 line in the cilia extending from the fourth costal streak around the apex to the 

 third dorsal streak. Cilia grayish. Just below the fourth costal streak there is 

 a darker brownish streak in the cilia, giving the appearance of a hook, as in L. 

 fitchella Clem., but not as distinct. Alar expanse 7 mm. 



Hindwings pale grayish, with a slight ocherous tinge. Cilia whitish gray, 

 tinged with ocherous. Abdomen dark gray above, silvery white beneath. Anal 

 tuft grayish ocherous. Legs silvery white slightly shaded with ocherous, tibiae 

 and tarsi of the first pair very dark brown. 



Three specimens, Montclair, N. J., bred by Mr. W. D. Kearfott, 

 from mines on chestnut collected in October, 1901. The imagoes 

 appeared in the following spring. 



I have specimens from Powell Co., 

 Kentucky, on chestnut; and there are 

 a number of specimens in the Nat. Mus. 

 collection bred by Mr. August Busck 

 on chestnut at Washington, D. C. 



The rather small elongate mine of 

 this species is found upon the lower 

 side of the leaf, where it is placed 

 between two veins. The pupa is en- 

 closed in a loose, semi-transparent silken cocoon. 



