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lated with white. Thorax yellowish-white; tegulae dark 

 brown. Fore-wings cinereous-brown, dusted with dark 

 brown, with a dark brown sinuated streak along the fold, 

 and the inner marginal portion of the wing pale yellowish- 

 white, with three rounded projections toward the fold. Hind- 

 wings brown, with a purplish hue ; cilia brownish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen dark brown. 



P. mollipedella.* Head and thorax pale brownish-ochre- 

 ous. Fore-wings pale brownish-ochreous, somewhat paler 

 along the costa, and dotted with dark brown, with a fuscous, 

 sinuated streak in the fold, narrowly edged with ochreous- 

 gray. The inner marginal portion of the wing pale brownish- 

 ochreous, with three projections toward the fold, and the inner 

 border dotted with dark brown to the tip of the wing. Hind- 

 wings dark gray ; cilia brownish-ochreous. 



GRACILARIA, Zeller. 



G. superbifrontella. Labial palpi yellow, tipped with 

 brownish. Antenna? dull yellow, with very faint brownish 

 rings. Head stramineous, tinged with reddish-violet on the 

 forehead. Thorax stramineous, with tegulse externally 

 striped with reddish-violet. Fore-wings beautiful reddish- 

 violet, with a shining stramineous patch on the inner margin 

 at the base, and a large costal triangle of the same hue, 

 reaching almost across the wing, and extending along the 

 costa from the basal third, nearly to the apex. Hind-wings 

 blackish-gray ; cilia dark fuscous. 



This insect must approach very closely the European 

 Swederella. 



The larva may be found, in the middle of July, in cones, 

 on the leaves ofHamamelis Virginica (witch-hazel), and the 

 imago appears early in August. The head of the larva is 



* I have not seen this insect, but I should not be at all surprised if it should 

 prove to be the <j> of Cruciferarum, which has so often been looked on as a 

 distinct species from the $ . H. T. S. 



