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figured is the tuft of scales on the inner surface of the terminal joint of 
the labial palpi—a character which I have never found in any of the 
species which I have placed in Adrasteia. I am therefore not satisfied 
that the two genera are exact equivalents. 
GELECHIA. 
G. scutellariacella. N. sp. 
This species approaches closely those which I have placed in Adras- 
Zeia. ‘There is a distinct divided bunch on the second joint of the palpi, 
but it is smaller than in the species which I have placed in that genus, 
and there are no tufts of raised scales. It differs from the true Gelechia 
in having the last joint of the palpi but little more than half as long as 
the second joint, and the antennae but little more than half as long as 
the wings. 
Blackish brown, tinged with blue, dusted with pale or bluish white, 
with an indistinct whitish costal streak before the cilia, and an opposite 
dorsal one. The white dusting of the primaries is more dense and more 
hoary towards the apex of the primaries. Inner surface of the palpi 
yellowish. AZ ex. 36 inch. Posterior tibiæ clothed with a tuft of long 
hairs. 
This is a very plain and inconspicuous insect, principally remarkable 
for the habits of the larva. It is white, with green contents, and head 
pale straw color, and mines the leaves of the “Scullcap” (Scutellaria 
lateriflora). It constructs a case or tube of silk lined externally with its 
frass. The tube is nearly flat, but curved, one side being convex and the 
other concave, and it is wider at one end than at the other and attached 
by its narrower end to the under surface of the leaves, and from it the 
larva passes into the leaf to feed, retiring into the case when alarmed and 
to pupate. It constructs but one case, and I think the attachment of that 
one to the leaf is permanent, and that the larva makes but the one mine. 
I have never found it except in a single locality—near the village of 
Verona, in Boone County, Kentucky. There it is very abundant in 
September and October. 
