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pale smoky hue. Hind wings pale leaden-gray, with stramineous cilia; 

 abdomen above of the same hue with the fore wings, but paler, and the 

 under surface gray and reddish-brown mixed ; anal tuft silvery-gray 5 

 legs and tarsi dark, reddish-brown or brown, the tarsi annulate with 

 white. Expanse of wings, ^^ inch. Edgerton, June. 



G. (jlycyrliizwella n. sp. — I hesitate about giving this species this spe- 

 cific name, because of some doubt whether it really feeds on Olycyrhiza 

 lepidota, although it — a single specimen — and only it, came from a col- 

 lection of leaves of that plant, with larvae of a GelecMa feeding on them. 

 The larvae and their mode of feeding seemed to me to be identical with 

 others feeding on an allied plant, Amorplia fruticosa, and from which I 

 bred the very different species described {2yost) as G. amorphcvella. 



In ornamentation, this species resembles that just described {G. ped- 

 montella), but is paler, larger, and with wider wings, and the palpi are 

 very different, not being at all compressed or serrated ; the second joint 

 is brush-like and longer than the third ; hind wings emarginate beneath 

 the apex. Second joint ocherous, paler on the inner side, brownish on 

 the outer surface ; third joint brown, with a whitish line along the inner 

 surface; head ocherous, each scale tipped with blackish; antennae brown ; 

 upper surface of thorax and fore wings yellowish-ocherous, the wings 

 dusted densely with brown and somewhat with white along both margins, 

 the dusted portion on the dorsal margin wider than that on the costal 

 margin ; cilia whitish or pale ocherous, dusted with fuscous, the dusting 

 forming three hinder marginal lines, one before and one behind the mid- 

 dle of the cilia, and a fainter one at the tip ; hind wings of a pale leaden 

 hue, with pale stramineous cilia. Upper surface of abdomen and anal 

 tuft ocherous, the under surface of the abdomen ocherous, dusted with 

 fuscous, as are also the legs and tarsi. Expanse of wings, 8 lines. Ed- 

 gerton, July and August. 



G. amorplueella n. sp. — Bred from larva? sewing together the termina- 

 leaves of young specimens of Amorpha fruticosa, and, as stated above, 

 supposed to be the same larva found feeding in the same way on Glycy 

 rhi.za lepidota. It may therefore turn out, either that these four speci- 

 mens did not come from the larva feeding on AmorpJia, or that the 

 species described above did not come from the larva on Glycyrliiza. 



Second joint of the palpi brush-like; hind wings slightly emarginate. 

 Dark steel-gray, with two minute darker spots, one on the disk, the 

 other at the end of the cell ; under surface of abdomen yellowish. Ex- 

 panse of wings, 8^ lines. Edgerton, July and August. 



Larva. — Head and next segment pale straw-color, the hind margin of 

 the first segment brown, and with two small black spots on top of each 

 of the first three or four segments ; five longitudinal pale purplish stripes 

 beginning on the second segment. It becomes bright pinkish-red be- 

 fore becoming a puj)a. 



A captured specimen which I believe belongs to this species has the 

 head and palpi paler than the thorax. 



