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joint which are pale golden. Maxillary palpi pale golden, the joints 

 brown toward their tips. Face golden below, head and thorax bronzy 

 gray. Forewings suffused with purplish brown and speckled with 

 patches of darker brown scales. An elongate patch of these scales lies 

 just within the margin at the inner angle, leaving merely a narrow 

 edge of golden color instead of the broad golden patch at the base in 

 the summer form. In darker specimens this is also obliterated. The 

 dark scales form a very distinct margining along the inner side of the 

 pale costal triangle. The costal triangle is separated from the pale 

 patch beyond (with which it is continuous in the summer form) by a 

 patch of dark brown scales on the costa. The golden yellow color of 

 the costal triangle deepens into purplish brown toward the costa where 

 there are two or three small brown spots. The pale costal patch be- 

 yond is sometimes almost obsolete, because of the darkening of the 

 color and the large admixture of dark brown scales. Hindwings and 

 cilia fuscous. Legs as in the summer form, except that the tibiae of 

 the hind legs and the tarsi are more deeply shaded with brown. Ex- 

 panse : 9.5-10.5 mm. 



The summer form reminds one strongly of a small specimen 

 of G. superbifrontella Clem.; the autumn form is perhaps 

 closest to G. jnglandiella Cham., but the general color is lighter 

 and more reddish, and the costal triangle is more distinctly 

 outlined. 



Gracilaria negundella Chambers. 



Gracilaria negundella Chambers, Can. Ent. VIII, 18. 1876; Bull. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., Ill, 132, 1877; Psyche, III, 66, 1880; Dyar, List N. 

 A. Lep. Xo. 6360, 1902. 



The species to which Chambers originally gave the name 

 negundella was bred from Box Elder in Colorado. Specimens 

 bred from the same tree around Cincinnati do not agree with 

 Chambers' description. These specimens are decidedly darker, 

 but the distribution of the markings and particularly the mark- 

 ings of the legs and body are as Chambers has described them. 

 A description which will ser\-e better for the identification of 

 the Eastern form is given below: 



Antennae graj-ish, annulate with dark brown. Labial palpi yellow, the 

 second joint dusted beneath and tipped with dark brown, the third 

 joint dusted beneath and on the sides with dark reddish brown, with a 

 broad annulus just before the tip. Maxillary palpi pale yellow, the 

 joints tipped with brown. Face and head golden, the latter usually al- 

 most entirely suffused with purplish bronze. Thorax and forewings 



