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and ten ti form ; and the leaf is completely folded over. The larva 

 is green and of the cylindrical type, and spins a thin ovoid silken 

 cocoon, fastened to the leaf above and below. Mr. Chambers (Can. 

 Ent., iii, 84, 1871) described the larvse and mine of this species under 

 the mistaken impression that they belonged to his L. virginiella, 



Lithocolletis afliiiis Frey and Boll. 



Lithocolletis affinis Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxvii, 222, 1876; xxxix, 270, 

 1878. Walsingham, Ins. Life, ii, 51, 1889. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1902, No. 6314. 



The head, thorax and forewings are of a uniformly dark reddish saffron. Face 

 and palpi shining white, legs whitish gray. The tarsi of the first pair have dis- 

 tinct blackish bands. The second pair are spotted with blackish, the last pair 

 are lighter, marked with brownish black. The dorsal side of the abdomen is 

 dark gray, the ventral side whitish. 



The feebly shining forewings have three fasciae, at the basal third, at the mid- 

 dle, and at three-quarters of the wing length respectively. All the fasciae are 

 faintly dark margined toward the base, the first straight, the second slightly 

 concave, the third feebly angulated. Before the apex there is a white costal 

 streak, without any dark margining. The cilia are of the ground color. 



Hindwings rather dark gray, their cilia lighter brownish. 



Frey and Boll have thus described the species. 



Found in Texas, where the larvae make underside mines on a 

 species of Lonicera, and on" a species of Symphoricarpos. 



The absence of any dark dusting in the apex of the wing distin- 

 guishes the imago of this species from that of tritcenianella Cham. 



Lithocolletis marixeella Chambers. 



Plate XXII, Fig. 23. 



Lithocolletis marixella Chambers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., ii, 99, 1875. Can. Ent., xi, 

 92, 1879. Walsingham, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., x, 201, 1882. Dyar, 

 Bull. 52. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6315. 

 Syn. mariella Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 190, 1891. 



Face and palpi whitish ; last joints of the palpi darkened externally. Antennae 

 grayish white, annulate with brown. Tuft reddish orange. 



Thorax and forewings golden brown. Two white fasciae, one at the basal 

 fourth, and the other at the middle of the wing length, both bent outward near 

 the median line, and margined with dark brown internally. At the beginning 

 of the costal cilia is a white streak nearly meeting an opposite dorsal streak, both 

 dark margined internally. A curved white streak, margined before by a darker 

 shade, encloses the apex, and sometimes extends through the cilia on the dorsal 

 margin. The apex of the wing is sometimes darkened by a few brown scales. 

 Cilia a shade paler than the wings. Expanse 8-8.5 mm. 



Hindwings gray, with reddish cilia. Abdomen brownish gray. Hind legs 

 brownish red ; the other two pair whitish, banded with black. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XXXIV. (40) OCTOBER, 1908. 



