20 IN MEMORIAM. 



scurioribus mixtis ; posticis griseis ; palporura articulo 

 ultimo nigro. 



Exp. al. 5^— 5|'". [The size in the Ent. Zeit., 2i— 2|, is 

 a misprint.] 



Anterior wings reddish-cinnamon brown, mixed with 

 dark scales, which are more numerous on the costa and 

 towards the apex of the wing ; there are also dark scales on 

 the cilia. Posterior wings grey, with long cilia. Head 

 and thorax of the colour of the anterior wings. Front of 

 the head more unicolorous yellowish. Antennae about as 

 long as the body, grey with darker annulations. Palpi 

 externally of the colour of the head, internally yellowish ; 

 the pointed terminal joint black. Abdomen yellowish-grey, 

 with yellowish hairs at the tip. Legs yellowish 5 the tarsi 

 faintly annulated with darker. 



In form this species resembles Gelechia atrnplicella^ 

 F. V. R. 



The larva is rather flattened, somewhat attenuated at 

 both ends, transversely wrinkled, clothed with some 

 short hairs, with a greasy-shining appearance, reddish- 

 brown. Head shining black. Second segment with a 

 shining, black, crescent-shaped spot divided by a slender 

 pale longitudinal line. Anterior legs darker than the body. 



It mines the pinnate leaves of the Jurinea Polliclmy 

 Koch, which thence become inflated lengthwise. It eats 

 out the parenchyma from the tip of the leaf, and the ex- 

 cavated portion becomes dry and yellowish-brown. The 

 excrement remains collected in the tip of the leaf. 



I first found the larva at Eberstadt and Jugenheim on 

 the Bergstrasse, in October. It winters in the mine, which 

 it does not quit till April j then under a slight web it changes 

 to the pupa state. 



The pupa is narrow, longish-oval, shining, brown, an- 



