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and makes another. It pupates over the midrib under a dense but semi- 
transparent white web on the upper side of the leaf, Rather an incon- 
“spicuous insect ; the costal half of the wings yellowish, with a few black 
spots on the middle of the margin. Dorsal half yellowish-purple, faintly 
iridescent, with a few small blackish dots along the centre of the disc. 
Alar ex. about 7% inch. Kentucky. Common. 
8. Gracillaria Packardella. N. sp. 
Face and palpi snowy-white; the joints of the palpi tipped with 
golden. Vertex, antennae, thorax, and base of the wings pale lemon- 
yellow, each antennal joint tipped above with fuscous. Anterior wings 
pale reddish-orange, with purple and golden reflections, and becoming 
deeper towards the apex, with a large triangular palé lemon-yellow spot | 
about the middle, very wide on the costa, and its apex almost touching 
the dorsal margin. Ciliae pale yellowish, faintly flecked with reddish- 
orange or golden. Anterior surface of the legs reddish-orange, tinged 
with fuscous. Scales of the head loose, not appressed. 
Larva and food-plant unknown, but from circumstances, I suspect it 
to be an Oak-feeding species ; and I think that it passes the winter in the 
pupal state, from finding fresh specimens of it abundant in April and 
May. Adar ex. about 7% inch. Kentucky. 
I took it resting upon fences under Beech and Oak trees ; on which 
also, there were a great many of the bracts, or outer reddish envelopes, of 
the Beech leaf-buds (which were then expanding, and throwing. off these 
envelopes). At a distance of more than a yard it was scarcely possible to 
distinguish the Gracilaria from these envelopes. I have never found a 
mine or larva of this genus on the Beech ; and have found the imago on 
Oaks at a great distance from any Beech trees. 
I have named it in honor of Dr. A. S. Packard, jun., author of the 
“ Guide.” 
9. Gracilaria purpuriella.. N. sp. 
Violaceous, reddish or brownish-purple, according to the light. Face 
pale violaceous, flecked with brownish-purple. Antennae brown, tinged 
with purplish, faintly annulate with white at the base of each joint ; palpi 
pale purplish. The triangular white spot about the middle of the costa is 
nearly equilateral ;' its anterior margin is a little concave, the apex reach- 
ing the fold, and it has four small spots of the general hue situated in it 
upon the costa. Ciliae bluish fuscous. Posterior femora white at the 
tip, and with a wide white band about the middle, and its under surface 
