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vein of the hind wings is ¢wo branched.. Thisis an error. All of these 
species agree with the figure in Westwood’s introduction, in having it 
three branched.) D. cryptolechiella and D. dubitella differ from Depres- 
saria in the form of the palpi, which, in the former, are like those of 
Gelechia, except, perhaps, that they are a little slenderer and more elon- 
gate, while in D. dubitella the brush is very small, though divided. In 2. 
cryptolechiella the hind wings are not excised beneath the tip. Both of 
these species also have the neuration, though not the shape of the hind 
wings, as in Strobisia, rather than Depressaria, the difference being that in 
Sérobisia the subcostal vein is ¢rifid from the discal vein which gives off a 
single vein, while in Depressaria the subcostal zs simple and the discal vein 
gives off two branches—as though a-branch of the subcostal of Strobisza 
had been separated and placed a little lower down on the discal vein. 
Otherwise these two species also agree with Defressaria. These species 
all have the wings comparatively narrower than most of the European 
species ; shaped rather like D. Af/ana (or even narrower) than like 2. 
umbellana, as those species are figured by Stainton. They are wider, 
however, in 2. Cryprolechiella than any of the others. 
The prevalence of dark brown or dark ochreous colors seems to be 
characteristic of the genus ; and comparing my species and Dr. Clemens’ 
descriptions of D. afrodorsella, cinereocostella and pulvipennella, and Dr. 
Packard’s description of D. robiniella, and Mr. Bethune’s description of 
D. Ontariella with the figures in Stainton’s Vol. 9, Nat. Fist. Tin., and 
other figures by Stainton and Douglass in the Zrans. Lond. Ent. Soc., 
those colors seem to prevail to a greater degree in the American than in 
the European species. The known American species are, however, too 
few as yet to predicate this statement generally. 
rT. D. Cryptolechiella. N. sp. 
Third joint of the palpi black, with a narrow longitudinal white line 
on each side. Second joint pale yellow with a narrow longitudinal black 
line beneath. Antennae pale yellow, checkered above with black and 
with a narrow longitudinal black line on each side of the basal portion. 
Head, thorax and base of the anterior wings dull reddish-orange ; anterior 
wings to the naked eye, pale golden, with the lustre of ‘watered’ silk, 
produced by a multitude of transverse, narrow, wavy, dark browa lines, as 
seen under the lens ; six small dark brown spots in a row around the apex, 
to the naked eye appearing like a narrow marginal line. Ciliae pale fus- 
cous, with a silvery lustre and a somewhat darker hinder marginal line at 
