262 PAPERS BY DK. B. CLEMENS. 



with four blackish rings, one at the base, two in the middle, 

 and one at the extreme tip. 



My friend Mr. Benj. D. Walsh, of Rock Island, Illinois, 

 writes to me that " the larva mines a cabbage-like gall, 

 brassicoides, peculiar to Salix longifolia, and a pine-cone- 

 like gall on Salix cordata named strobiloides by Osten 

 Sacken." The ornamentation of the imago is similar to that 

 of G. roseosujffusella* the larva of which inhabits the fruit 

 panicles of sumach. Imago occurs August 1st 15th. 



Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh, Rock Island, IU. 



Gelechia Salicifungiella, n. s. Fore-wings red, irregularly 

 marked with whitish. Near the base is a whitish band, pow- 

 dered with dark fuscous, which curves across the fold, includ- 

 ing the inner margin, and reaches the middle of the wing ; 

 the part beneath the fold is tinged with reddish and some- 

 times with pale brownish. Adjoining this band exteriorly is a 

 dark brownish-red, curved band, which does not cross the fold. 

 On the costa are three small white spots, one near the tip, one 

 about the middle and one exterior to the brownish-red band. 

 The margin of the wing is powdered with dark fuscous. Cilia 

 red. Hind-wings dark gray ; cilia grayish-fuscous. 



Head reddish. Antennae black, annulated with white. 

 Labial palpi pale red ; second joint with two blackish rings ; 

 terminal joint with three black rings and a black dot at the 

 base, extreme tip black. 



The larva mines the same gall, brassicoides, as G. fungi- 

 vorella. Mr. Walsh bred six specimens, of which he was 

 kind enough to send me three. Although fungivorella is 

 tinged with roseate in the white markings, I can perceive no 

 tendency in the eight specimens of this imago, that Mr. Walsh 

 has so liberally sent me, to merge into the ornamentation of 

 Salicifungiella. Certainly the character of the markings is 

 the same in each, and it is possible that we have here but a 

 single species. The imago occurs August 3rd 13th. 



Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh. 



* See ante, p. 113. H. T. S. 



