316 AMERICAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 



specimens was given as Lonicera " albida " (such a plant has never 

 been catalogued). The mine is placed on the underside of the leaf. 

 A large series bred by Mr. August Busck on Lonicera sempervirens 

 Ait. is in the U. S. Nat. Mus. 



LUhocolletis salicifoliella Clem. 



Plate XXIII, Figs. 2, 3 ; XXIV, Fig. 24. 



Lithocolletis salicifoliella Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., i, 81, 1861. Tin. No. Am., 



169, 1872. Packard, Guide Stud. Ins., 353, 1869. Chambers, Can. 



Ent., iii, 163, 185, 1871. Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., ii, 302, 1875. Can. Ent., 



vii, 126, 1875. Bull. Geol. Surv. Terr., iii, 139, 1877. Walsingham, 



Ins. Life, ii, 54, 1889. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6333. 



Syn. atomariella Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxv, 350, 1875. Walsingham, 



Ins. Life, ii, 54, 1889. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6332. 



Antennse white, more or less distinctly annulate with brown. Face and palpi 



white; tuft white, sometimes thickly interspersed with brown scales. 



The following is Chambers' description of the forewings in Can. 

 Ent., vii, 126, 1875 : 



" Thorax and primaries bright golden or saffron yellow, according to the light, 

 or even sometimes dull brownish yellow, the thorax and basal portion of the 

 dorsal margin of the forewings being largely intermixed with white, and dusted 

 more or less with black. Sometimes the inner angle is of the general ground 

 hue, scarcely dusted or marked with either white or dark brown, and then there 

 is a median white basal streak which meets at an acute angle with a dorsal white 

 streak about the basal fourth of the wing length. Both of these white streaks, 

 and all other white markings on the wings are more or less dusted with dark 

 gray-brown, sometimes so much as to obscure the white. Before the middle of 

 the costa is a long white streak, which attains the middle of the wing, curving 

 backwards; a little behind this, on the dorsal margin, is a large dorsal white 

 streak, wide on the margin, but shorter than the first costal streak, like which it 

 curves backwards along the middle of the wing, being usually confluent, or very 

 nearly so with the first costal streak; a little further back, about the middle of 

 the costal margin, is another white costal streak shorter than the first, but like 

 it curving back along the middle of the wing, and usually confluent with the 

 first costal and first dorsal streaks. Then follows another narrower and some- 

 what oblique costal white streak, opposite to which is a triangular white dorsal 

 spot separated from it by some brown scales; just before the cilia is a curved 

 white fascia concave towards the apex and sometimes interrupted in the middle, 

 and just before the apex is another similar fascia, which, however, sometimes 

 does not attain the dorsal margin, and behind it in the apex is a short brown 

 streak. All these white streaks and fasciae are decidedly dark margined before, 

 and more or less dusted with grayish brown. There is a brown hinder marginal 

 line at the base of the cilia, which latter are stramineous." 



Expanse 7-8 mm. 



The hindwings are gray, with ocherous tinged cilia ; pale ocher- 



