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yellowish-white, and usually somewhat dilated above the 

 interior angle ; with a costo-discal patch of the same hue, 

 and the costa punctated with pale yellowish atoms, which 

 become small spots toward the apex of the wing, and on the 

 posterior margin. Hind-wings pale brownish, with a reddish 

 hue: cilia gray. Exp. al. 4'75 to 6*00 lines. 



T. crocicapitella. Labial palpi yellowish, dark brown 

 externally. Head and front saffron-yellow. Thorax dark 

 fuscous, with the disc saffron-yellow. Fore-wings dark 

 fuscous, with dispersed saffron-yellow scales, especially along 

 the costa, with a saffron-yellow dorsal streak and a paler, 

 nearly round, discal spot. Hind-wings pale brownish-gray. 

 Exp. al. 4-50 to 6'50 lines. 



T. carnariella. Palpi dark brown. Head and front rather 

 dark ochreous, tinged with reddish. Fore-wings pale yel- 

 lowish-brown, dusted with fuscous, especially at the costal por- 

 tion of the base ; with a conspicuous dark brown spot on the 

 end of the disc, with two smaller spots of the same hue between 

 this and the base of the wing, one about the middle of the 

 disc, and the other beneath it in the submedian fold ; fringes 

 unicolorous and rather paler than the general hue. Hind- 

 wings pale bluish-gray ; fringes somewhat darker. Exp. al. 

 5-50 to 7-50 lines. 



This species, perhaps, may have been heretofore described 

 under another name;* but if it has, I have been unable to 

 recognize it. I have two specimens only in my collection. 

 The larvas were found in one of my boxes of Lepidoptera, 

 and had constructed cases of detached portions of the insects 

 and the scales, united by silk. The imago appeared, one on 

 March 13th, and the other some days subsequently. 



The eggs were whitish, smooth and nearly cylindrical, but 

 tapering slightly toward the upper end. Length about one 

 fourth of a line, diameter one half the length. The mature 



* I have not seen this insect, but suspect that it is our old friend T.pellio- 

 nella, L. H. T. S. 



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