112 PAPERS BY DR. fi. CLEMENS. 



Cilia ochreous. Hind-wings shining, blackish-gray, cilia 

 the same. Abdomen blackish. 



GELECHIA, Zeller. 



G. cerealella. Anacampsis (JButalis) cerealella, Harris, 

 Treat, on Ins., 2nd ed., p. 392. Head and face dull 

 ochreous. Labial palpi pale ochreous, with fuscous ring at 

 the tip and a slight fuscous spot on the middle of the second 

 joint. Fore-wings pale, shining ochreous, with a fuscous 

 streak in the fold toward the base and a few fuscous scales 

 toward the tip of the wing on the margin : cilia grayish- 

 ochreous. Hind-wings grayish-ochreous, cilia the same. 



This insect has doubtless been introduced into this country 

 from Europe. My own specimens were obtained from the 

 W. D. Porter wheat, distributed by the Patent Office at 

 Washington city. The seed of this wheat was originally 

 procured from Mount Olympus in Asia, and from two heads 

 of this as a beginning was grown in the District of Columbia 

 the grain distributed in the years 1854 and 1855. The 

 insect is probably common in the District. 



G. agrimoniella.* Labial palpi yellowish. Eyes crim- 

 son. Antennae yellowish, annulated with black. Head, 

 thorax and fore-wings blackish, somewhat suffused with a 

 greenish hue, the latter black beyond the middle, with a pale 

 yellow band, somewhat hooked on the costa, at the apical third 

 of the wing. Hind-wings blackish-brown, cilia the same. 



The larva may be found about the middle of June, nearly 

 full fed, in the leaves of Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoria), 

 which it rolls and binds together with silken threads. 



The body of the full grown larva is coloured obscure 



* Of this I received six specimens from Dr. Clemens. The exp. al. is 5| 

 lines. The fascia, which curves a little outwards on the costa, is represented 

 on the underside as a distinct, almost triangular costal spot the basal portion 

 of the anterior wings is much more decidedly paler than the apical portion 

 in our European Tceniolella. The food-plant of the American species is 

 very interesting, all the species of the group in Europe, as far as known, 

 feeding on Leguminosce. H. T. S. 



