June, I902,] Kearfott : On North American Choreutes. 113 



Original description : 



" Male. Ferruginous. Palpi acute, not longer than the breadth of the head, 

 with a long dense fringe beneath; third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the 

 second. Antennce setose. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with two irregular, 

 whitish slightly curved bands, and with several glittering chalybeous black-bordered 

 dots ; first band before the middle, more oblique than the second, which is beyond 

 the middle ; a chalybeous streak along the basal part of the costa ; fringe bordered by 

 two cinereous lines. Length of body 2 lines ; of the wings 6 lines." 



"Nova '^cotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection." 



The general appearance, shape and size of this species is not unlike 

 European pretiosaua ; it differs from it in having two wide irregular 

 pure white bands extending from costa to hind margin on the fore 

 wing. Zeller received three specimens of this species from Ohio and 

 suggested the name oi oliioensis, if it should prove to be different from 

 bjerkandrella, but Walker's description was made in 1864 and Zeller' s 

 name must go in the synonymy. 



Walker gives locality Nova Scotia; Professor Fernald adds Amherst, 

 Mass.; Dr. Dietz has specimens labelled Central New York, June i, 

 1887. In the National Museum are specimens from New Hampshire 

 and Ontario (Hanham), so it seems to be a northeastern species with 

 Ohio as the south and western limit. It can be distinguished readily 

 by the two broad, irregular, white bands, extending from costa to hind 

 margin. The inner band is at inner third and outer band beyond 

 outer third. 

 Choreutis gnaphaliella, sp. nov. 



Light brown or fuscous. Abroad inner band 'and a narrow band near margin, 

 thickly sprinkled with whitish scales. Three large black spots. 



Antennae dark brown, ringed with white. Head, palpi fuscous, latter white at 

 base ; outer ends of scales on head paler. Thorax yellow, ochreous, a median line 

 of whitish scales, patagia edged with ochreous. 



Fore wings : Basal area ochreous, divided on median line by line of metallic 

 scales, also a fine line of same on costa and a few metallic scales close to hind mar- 

 gin on outer edge of ochreous patch. A broad, oblique, slightly curved band of 

 light brown heavily dusted with whitish scales, from costa to hind margin, outer edge 

 irregular ; a few scattered metallic scales on this band, near costa and near hind mar- 

 gm. A large oval, black velvety spot in center of outer half, a smaller black spot on 

 hind margin below and inwardly to large spot, a rectangular black spot on outer mar- 

 gin beyond large spot ; all of these spots separated from each other by ground color ; 

 a few black scales follow apical line. Between central black spot and costa is a rec- 

 tangular area of brown and ochreous scales, becoming almost black at outer edge ; 

 just beyond this, before apex, is a small patch of almost white. Scales forming a 

 white costal spot. In every place where there are black spots or scales, they are 

 overlaid with metallic scales. Outer marginal band brown, sprinkled with white 

 scales ; this band extends out on the fringe ; the latter is fuscous. 



