298 AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



Kearfott from a much wrinkled mine on the underside of a willow 

 leaf, collected in Essex County Park, New Jersey, July 6, 1902. 

 The imago appeared July 19th. 



Lilhocolletis deceptusella Chambers. 



Plate XXII, Fig. 5. 



Lithocolletis deceptnsella Chambers, Can. Ent., xi, 73, 1879. Walsingham, Ins. 

 Life, iii, 328, 1891. Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 190, 1903. 



Face, palpi and antennae white; antennae faintly annulate with brownish. 

 Tuft pale brownish ocherous, mixed with white. 



Thorax and forewings pale golden brown. Three longitudinal white streaks 

 on the thorax, the median one continuous with a short narrow dorso-basal white 

 streak, the other two uniting with the unmargined median basal streak, which 

 curves downwards and unites with the upper edge of the slightly oblique nearly 

 square first dorsal streak, which is faintly margined internally by a darker shade. 

 The first costal streak, a little beyond it, is triangular, somewhat oblique, and 

 dark margined on both sides. Second costal streak nearly perpendicular and 

 opposite the larger triangular second dorsal streak, both faintly dark margined 

 before. Last two costal streaks small, oblique and faintly internally margined. A 

 third dorsal streak above the tornus is indicated by its dark margin. Beginning 

 under the apex of the third costal streak is a dark brown streak of scales, extend- 

 ing to the apex. A brown marginal line extends around the apex, at the base of 

 the cilia, which are pale whitish ocherous. Expanse 6 mm. 



Hindwings and cilia pale grayish, slightly fulvous. Forelegs pale, tibiae and 

 first tarsal joint reddish. 



Kentucky (Chambers). 



This species has been made a synonym of blancardella (Walsing- 

 ham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 202, 1882). An examination of 

 Chambers' type shows it to be a distinct species, not closely related 

 to .eratcegella or the other apple feeding species. It differs from 

 cratcegella in the less oblique first costal streak ; in the confluence of 

 the unmargined basal streak with the first dorsal streak, which is 

 entirely different from the first dorsal streak of eratcegella; and in 

 the absence of any very distinct dark margining of the streaks. 



LUhocolletis alnicolella Walsingham. 



Plate XXII, Fig. 6. 

 Lithocolletis alnicolella Walsingham, Ins. Life, ii, 80, 1889. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6273. 



"Antennae whitish, very faintly spotted above. Palpi white. Face white, 

 frontal tuft grayish saffron. Thorax pale grayish saffron, touched with white at 

 the sides. 



" Forewings pale grayish saffron with three dorsal and four costal silvery 

 white streaks, all dark margined on their inner sides and at their points ; a some- 

 what broad but very indistinct white medio-basal streak extends above the fold 



