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bright-golden band, broadest on the inner margin, where it 

 is nearest the base, and con- 

 stricted at the fold of the wing ; 

 a spot of the same hue on the 

 costa, at the apical third of the 

 wing, and one on the inner mar- 

 gin, midway between this and 

 the band; cilia somewhat coppery, and rather grayish at 

 the inner angle. Hind-wings purple-brown; cilia grayish- 

 ochreous. 



The larva mines the leaves of Nysa * multiflora in Sep- 

 tember. The head is dark brown; first segment dark 

 brownish; body very pale green, with dark atoms along the 

 dorsum; ventral surface with a line of two black spots. 

 After the last moulting the first segment is black, and the 

 dorsal spots become a black, vascular line. When full fed 

 the larva weaves an oval cocoon within the mine, and cutting 

 the two skins of the leaf into a correspondent form, permits 

 it to fall to the ground. There is thus left an oval hole in 

 the deserted mine. The images appear during the following 

 May. 



A. cornifoliella. Head, face, labial palpi, and fore-feet 

 dark brown. Antennse dark brown; basal joint somewhat 

 ochreous. Fore-wings rather dull dark brown, with a 

 coppery hue. Near the base is a rather narrow, golden 

 band, not constricted on the fold, and rather indistinct 

 toward the costa, where it is somewhat suffused with a 

 coppery hue, and nearest the base on the inner margin. At 

 the apical third of the wing is a small golden spot, and 

 nearly opposite, on the inner margin, another of the same 

 hue, with the hinder portion of the wing tinged with a bright 

 reddish coppery hue ; cilia dark grayish. Hind-wings pur- 

 plish-brown ; cilia somewhat paler, with a coppery hue. 



The larva mines the leaves of Cornus florida in Sep- 

 tember. It may possibly be a variation of Nys&foliella. 

 * See note in preceding page. 



