580 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
has escaped my observation. The larva, after cutting out of its disk, 
lets itself down by a thread, and in the middle of July the disks may 
be found suspended under willows, as the larva lets itself down to the 
surface ol* the ground. My specimens were taken on July 23, when 
the mines were generally deserted." (Clemens.) 
.".."). Xtpticula fuscotibiella Clem. 
Though the food-plant and metamorphosis of this Tiueid were not 
mentioned by Clemens (Tiueiua, p. 182), Mr. Chambers stated that the 
larva lives in a linear mine bent back on itself. 
Moth. — Antenna* dark fuscous; basal joint silvery white. Head reddish yellow. 
Fore wings purplish fuscous, with a rather broad, slightly oblique silvery baud 
exterior to the middle of the wing. On the costa of the wiDg the band is rather 
Dearer to the base than on the inner margin ; cilia pale grayish. Hind wings pale 
gray, with pale-gray cilia. Thorax dark fuscous, with a purplish hue. Legs and 
abdomen beneath yellowish, with a brassy luster; the hind tibia fuscous. 
56. Gelechia fungivorella Clem." 
The followiug account of this moth is from Clemens' Tineina : 
My friend Mr. Benj. D. Walsh, of Rock Island, 111., writes to me that "the larva 
mines a cabbage-like gall, brassicoides peculiar to Salix lovgifolia, and a pine-cone- 
like gall on Salix cor data named strobiloidts by Osteu Sackeu." The ornamentation of 
the imago is similar to that of G. roseosuffu sella, the larva of which inhabits the 
fruit panicles of sumach. Imago occurs August 1 to 15. Bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh, 
Rock Island, 111. 
Moth. — Fore wings roseate-white, freely dusted with testaceous-brown along the 
inner margin from the base to the tip of the wing, the costal half of the wing being 
banded with alternate roseate-white dusted with brownish, and testaceous-brown 
bauds; near the base of the wing is an oblique testaceous band extended a little be- 
yond the middle of the wing, margined externally by a roseate-white band, having a 
ceutral line of brownish atoms. Another testaceous band, placed about the basal 
third of the costa, is oblique, and extends a little beyond the middle of the wing ; its 
dorsal edge is convex and the costal edge concave ; it is broadest in the middle of the 
wing and termiuates in a point, just beneath which is a black or dark brown dot en- 
circled with white or roseate-white. Towards the apex of the wing is a semi-circular 
testaceous, costal patch margined with white or roseate-white. The apical portion 
of the wing is dusted freely with testaceous, and at the base of the cilia, near the 
anal angle, are one or two black dots. Cilia testaceous, with a white patch beneath 
the tip having a central dark-brownish cilial line, and a white or roseate-white patch 
at the anal angle. 
Antenna? dark brown, slightly annulated with shining white. Head whitish tinted 
with fuscous. Labial palpi white ; second joint with three blackish rings, one at the 
base, one in the middle and one near the tip ; terminal joint with four blackish rings, 
one at the base, two in the middle, and one at the extreme tip. 
f>7. Gelechia salicifungiella Clemens. 
"The larva," says Clemens (Tineina, p. 262), mines the same gall, 
brassicoides, as G. fungivorella. Mr. Walsh bred six specimens, of which 
he was kind enough to send me three. Although fungivorella is tinged 
* Of this I received two specimens from Mr. B. D. Walsh. The exp. al. is 3|x6 
lines.— H. T - 
