781 A. E. Verril—The Bermuda Islands. 369 
Tupestry-moth ; Tube-dwelling Clothes-moth. (Trichophaga, or 
Tinea, tapeizella L.) Figure 147a. 
This destructive moth doubtless also occurs, but we did not obtain 
it. Its tube is not a portable case, but rather a long, crooked tunnel 
or gallery. The moth has the basal half of the fore wings black ; 
the distal half white. 
Leaf-miner of Sweet Potato. (?Bedellia minor Busck, t. Busck.) 
Figure 148. 
A minute tineid, about 3™™ long, plain silvery, with the tips of 
the wings curved upward and fringed with long scales, whose larva 
mines in the leaves of sweet potato, causing irregular, blister-like, 
yellowish spots, 2-4™" in diameter. Imago emerged Aug. 26, from 
leaves mailed from Bermuda by Miss Victoria Hayward. Mr. Busck, 
who has examined it, identifies it doubtfully as the above species, 
described from Florida, on morning glory. 
Several other undetermined tineids were sent by Miss Hayward. 
Gelechia bosquella Chamb., Bull. U. 8. Geol. and Geog. Survey, 
Wee Si Vials. ir Ament. S0c:, x, pa 178. 
This small tineid sent by Mr. Louis Mowbray in October, is 
grayish black and silvery white ; on the wings the silvery white 
covers a basal patch, the posterior margin, and two small costal spots; 
legs banded with the two colors. Length, 6™™. Identified by Mr. 
Busck. 
Grass Web-worm. (Crambus laqueatellus Clem. ?) 
Mr. H. G. Dyar has identified one specimen, in poor condition, 
taken in summer by Mr. T. G. Gosling, as probably this species, but 
it may be some other closely related species, for it is too imperfect 
for accurate determination. 
The following Lepidoptera, collected in Bermuda in April by the 
Challenger Expedition, were recorded by A. G. Butler, Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (5), xill, p. 183-188, 1884 : 
Leucania antica Walker, Catal. Ex. Lepid., ix, p. 100, 1856.* 
* According to Walker its colors are as follows :—Thorax with several brown 
bands ; abdomen very pale fawn color; fore wings with costa and interior bor- 
der speckled with black, with some brown dots in the disk, with the usual 
exterior band of black dots, more numerous than usual; fore part of exterior 
border brownish ; hind wings whitish, with black marginal dots. Length of 
body, .5 inch; of wings, 1 inch. ‘‘ West coast of America.” South American. 
