INSECTS INJURING OAK-LEAVES. 197 
fers in the oblique central fascia extending to form a sharp angle 
towards the apex of wing, in the angulated portion containing two 
black streaks, and in this fascia extending, as a faint band, to the 
inner margin and beneath the ocellated patch. 
Ph. burgessiana Zell., which may not be distinct from pulchellana 
Clem., and Ph. laciniana Zell., which, also, may not be distinct from 
dubiana Clem., are closely allied to murtfeldtiana, but the basal patch 
is darker than in those species, thus resembling sjrirecefoliana. (Riley.) 
Moth. — Male : Expanse, 10 mm . White, the primaries with a dark-brown patch on 
basal half of inner margin and with an oblique fascia extending from the middle of 
costa. Head reddish brown ; palpi white, tinged with brown at base. Thorax 
white, becoming embrowned on the disk ; primaries white, the apical half shaded 
with ferruginous, with a broad blackish-brown patch on the basal half of the inner 
margin, the patch rounded on its costal border and having a very indistinct coppery 
reflection from some of the scales in particular lights ; from the middle of the costa 
an oblique reddish-brown fascia extending to form a sharp angle just before the apex 
of wing (these inclosing two black streaks), and retreating suddenly to curve around 
the ocellated patch, into which it sometimes sends a slight angle, and to attain the 
inner margin of the wing ; this fascia much paler on its inner half than on its costal 
half, bounded exteriorly from costa to inner margin by a white line, and shading off 
on the inner half of its basal border into the white ground color ; costa beyond the 
fascia to the apex streaked with white and ferruginous, the apex ferruginous; just 
below the apex two white streaks; ocellated patch white, generally containing a 
black streak ; posterior margin ferruginous ; fringes tinged with ferruginous, pale at 
base, darker at apical angle ; secondaries gray ; under surfaces gray ; primaries 
shaded with fuscous ; legs white, with the usual fuscous shadings on tarsi. Abdo- 
men gray, silvery beneath. (Riley.) 
276. THE OAK-LEAF CRYPTOLECHIA. 
Cryptolechia schlagenella Zeller. 
Order Lepidoptera ; family Tineid^e. 
This is a remarkable insect, both as a caterpillar and moth. It is not 
uncommon in the larval state on the oak, where we have seen it in Maine 
and Rhode Island in September. Professor Riley found, October 22, 
1882, in Virginia, several larvse of this Tineid feeding on oak. One 
moth issued June 2, 1883. It feeds between the leaves, drawing them 
together with silk threads. When about to pupate, it turns over a por- 
tion of the leaf nearly an inch long, lines the interior of the cell thus 
made with silk, and the moth appears the following spring. We have 
compared the moth with a type specimen sent to us several*years ago 
by the late Prof. P. C. Zeller, and now in the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., and it is undoubtedly that species, though 
the row of blackish dots so distinct in the fresh specimen reared by us 
are not to be seen in the type specimen ; otherwise it agrees exactly 
with the latter. It is a not uncommon insect, but, so far as ktiown, 
more curious than destructive, though it may at times disfigure the 
leaves of valuable shade trees. It is the largest Tineid larva we have 
met with. 
