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A white transverse band across the anterior margin of the thorax, 

 crossing the patagia, continuous with the basal streak, is not men 

 tinned in the description. The tuft is golden at the apex. Abdo- 

 men yellowish fuscous above; anal tuft yellow. Legs whitish, 

 spotted with brown. Alar expanse 6.5-8 mm. 



Bred from underside mines on elm, Ulmus fulva Michx. and 

 Ulmus Americana L. The pupa is formed within a transparent 

 silken web, occupying half the mine. 



Lithocolletis occitanica Frey and Boll. 



Lithocolletis occitanica Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxvii, 224, 1876; xxxix, 

 270, 1878. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6284. 



Face and palpi white; tuft white, with a few brownish scales; antennae whit- 

 ish, faintly annulate with yellowish; legs whitish, spotted with brown. Abdo- 

 men gray. 



The thorax (with a white line across the patagia) and the forewings are deep 

 saffron. They are lustreless, and their markings are pure white. At the base 

 of the wings in the fold there is a very short white streak. At the basal fifth 

 there begins on the dorsal margin a broad, back ward ly bent, oblique cross streak, 

 whose pointed apex does not reach the costal margin. At the middle of the 

 wing length there is a narrow, slightly horse-shoe shaped complete fascia, 

 inwardly narrowly dark margined. A third similarly formed fascia appears at 

 three-quarters of the wing length. Each of these is darkened or interrupted in 

 its costal half, as in the middle by a group of brown scales. In the apical part 

 of the wing there are some more scattered brownish scales. The cilia around the 

 apex are saffron gray, around the hind angle entirely light yellowish gray. 



The hindwings and cilia are whitish. 



According to Frey and Boll, whose description is given above, 

 this species may be bred from an underside rather arched mine on 

 Ulmus fulva Michx. 



Hab. Texas. 



J have had no opportunity of examining specimens of this spe 

 cies. Further study and breeding of a large series may show that 

 it is not specifically distinct from argentinotella Clem. 



Lithocolletis apicinigrella sp. nov. 



Plate XXII, Fig. 16; Plate XXIV, Fig. 23. 



Antennae pale grayish ocherous. Face and palpi whitish. Tuft grayish ocher- 

 ous, mixed with brown and white scales. 



Thorax and forewings pale grayish ocherous. Markings ocherous white and 

 usually very indistinct and ill-defined. When distinct, they consist of a pale 

 unmargined basal streak extending for one-fourth the wing length in the fold, 

 then bent upward toward the costa ; a dorso-basal streak continuous with a me- 

 dian line on the thorax and uniting with the first dorsal streak ; just before the 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XXXIV. OCTOBER, 1908. 



