188 3] Entomology. 661 
A welcome addition to the volume is Mr.Henshaw’s plows 
phy, consisting of a complete list of references to a 
graphs or synopses of families, genera or species that have ‘hin 
published. 
A PRETTY AND UNIQUE GALL-MAKING TorTRICID.— In May, 
1882, we received through Mr. H. K. Morrison, from Ft. Grant, 
Arizona, some elongate galls—mere swellings of the stem—on a 
sensitive plant, Acacia felicina. The moths issued during June 
and July, and proved to be one of the most striking, pretty and 
exceptional Tortricids known. The ac- 
loom on a damson with a terminal band 
of delicate crimson, contrasting with 
streaks of metallic steel-blue, deep rich 
brown, straw-yellow and carneous. 
e 
pe d a description under the genus eles combatant eas 
Grapholitha, with which it has the closest size 
affinities and to which Lord Walsingham, ‘who has examined 
Specimens, would refer it—C. V. Rile ey. 
GRAPHOLITHA NINANA, n. os —Average Ad age 1.9™™, Head hee the face and 
palpi delicate Sulphur-yell llo top pin EERE dark-brown or black. Thorax 
arie o en 
with a pruinescent bloom and with two loipirudinal sae of de eous oh e 
inner border margined with a streak of same color. ta pale straw-yellow with a 
Series of six brown-black, costal spots (sometimes one or two intermediate ones indi- 
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wing and'connects hin or less distinetly with a black fine which obliques poste- 
mer = makes an elbow almost at right a angles across the terminal fourth of 
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ch metallic scales are sometimes in the pink fed, hd aai pa ai on inside of 
transverse black line, while some black scales are also a le in the pink field 
(three ree specimens J; fringes brown, faintly mente secondaries dark brown 
Pale ; Wings beneath dark brown, strongl yi iridescent, the costal mar 
‘Peated, a pale basal streak ee middle "3 primaries an ore oc pee = ee 
ning the whole length along the upper ae of secondaries + te egs pale, tarsi 
nalate yogs fer, Ret with secondaries. 
Described fro N , three Qs. Slight oe in minute details, and but 
unimportant Aan differences between the 
SMUL IUM FEEDING ON OTHER hii ao Hagen (the £no- 
mologist’s Monthly Magazine, April, 1883, pp. pi 5) considers 
that Simulium may, after all, prove useful to man by causing the 
action of large numbers of chrysalides of Pieris menapia, 
Which is so injurious to pine trees in Washington Territory. Al~ 
