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neuratiou of tlie hind-wings as well as their color serves to separate it from that 

 species; veins 3 and 4 of the hind-wings being from the same j)oint, whereas in alhi- 

 l)unctella they arise from a short stem. 



This species belongs to the group in w^hich veins 2 and 3 of the fore-wings are sepa- 

 rate. 



Depressaria cinereocostella Clem.= clausella Wlk. 



Writing on this subject in the P. Z. S., 18S1, p. 312, I mentioned that Clemens's 

 I)aper in which it was described was published at some time during the month of 

 March, 18(34, and that the volume XXIX of Cat. Sp. Het. B, M. containing Walker's 

 description of clausella was dated March 7, 1864. Some additional information, for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. E. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia, and to Mr. Butler, of the 

 British Museum, justifies me in giving precedence to Clemens's name, the volume of 

 Walker's Catalogue having been submitted to the trustees of the British Museum 

 before publication, on June 25, 1864, whereas Clemens's paper in the Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phil., II, 422, was laid upon the table of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 

 on May 9, 1864, and had probably been issued to the subscribers some weeks before. 



Depressaria solidaginis sp, n. 



Antennce, purplish-cinereous. 



Palpi, cinereous, second joint roughly clothed, with a divided brush beneath ; apical 

 joint with an obscure fuscous ring near the base, a wider and more conspicuous 

 one near the apex, and the extreme tip also fuscous. 



Head, cinereous touched with reddish brown above ; face whitish. 



Thorax, purplish-cinereous, tufted posteriorly. 



Fore xvingSy cinereous, blotcbed and speckled with purplish fuscous, especially about 

 the outer one-half of the cell and at the base of the dorsal margin; three small 

 blackish dots at one-third from the base, the two upper on the disk, obliquely 

 placed, and followed by some very j)ale cinereous scales, the third on the fold 

 straight below the outer and lower one of the pair ; slightly beyond the middle 

 of the wing and in a direct line with the middle dot is a very pale cinereous 

 spot surrounded with darker scales, the outer portion of the costal margin has 

 four or five dark, purplish fuscous patches forming a continuation of the row of 

 dots of the same color, five in number, which extend from the anal angle along 

 the apical margin, the whole series being j)receded by some ill-defined longitud- 

 inal dark fuscous streaks; three of these are connected with the costal spots, the 

 other three do not reach the corresponding spots on the apical margin ; cilia, gray- 

 ish-cinereous, with a slight lilac lustre. 



Hind-wings and cilia, pale grayish, with a faint lilac luster. 



Ahdomen, grayish cinereous, clouded with fuscous posteriorly. 



Fxj). al, 22™"\ 



Hahitat, Kirkwood, Mo. 



Larra on Solidago. 



Tyjn: ^ , Mus. Wism. 

 A single specimen received from Miss Murtfeldt in 1884, bred from Solidago. 

 This species belongs to the group in which veins 2 and 3 of the fore-wings arise 



from a common stem. 

 The larva of this species is probably that which is described by Coquillett (Pap. 



Ill, 97-8) under the name 2)i(h'i2)enncUa Clem., for I find that Professor Fernald named 



Mr. Coquillett's specimens, and has also identified specimens of this species for Miss 



Murtfeldt as ^jM?tvjje«Me77a Clem., which do not correspond with specimens of j>j/7t'[- 



jiennella in my own collection that were compared with Clemens's type in the collec- 

 tion of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



