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the disk. Hind-wings dark fuscous, cilia the same. Feet 

 pale yellowish, the ends of middle and posterior tibiae touched 

 with fuscous; the middle tarsi fuscous externally, and the 

 hind tarsi banded with fuscous at the base. 



NEPTICULA, Zeller. 



N. rubifoliella. Head dark luteous. Palpi somewhat 

 paler luteous. Antennae luteous, basal joint silvery-white. 

 Fore-wings blackish-brown, with a rather narrow, curved 

 silvery band about the middle of the wing. The band is 

 concave toward the base of the wing and shows a tendency 

 to be interrupted in the middle. Cilia whitish. Hind- wings 

 grayish, cilia the same. 



I have very carefully compared this insect with the descrip- 

 tion and delineation of N. angulifasciella, of Stainton, in the 

 first volume of " The Natural History of the Tineina," and 

 though unwilling to believe the fact, I cannot resist the con- 

 clusion, that it is the same species. I have not named the 

 species in accordance with this conviction, because as yet 

 I have secured but a single specimen.* 



The larva mines the leaf of blackberry in September. It 

 makes a blotch mine on the upper surface of the leaf, begin- 

 ning as a slender gallery, extending quite a distance, usuaUy 

 along a vein of the leaf, before being enlarged into a blotch. 

 The body of the larva tapers posteriorly, the terminal rings 

 being attenuated ; colour pale green, with a bright dark-green 

 vascular line; head greenish-brown and small. The larva 

 was not taken from the mine for description. It leaves the 

 mine very early in October to spin an oval, very dark reddish- 

 brown cocoon, and appears as an imago during the latter part 

 of May, or early in June. There is therefore, in all pro- 

 bability, a summer brood, which may be found in July and 

 August, if the conjecture is correct. 



I have no doubt that subsequent observation will prove 

 this insect to be the same as Angulifasciella, and I am no 



* See ante, p. 42. H. T. S. 



