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the hinder portion of the discal cell nine nervules are given off, four 
of which go to the costa, and five to the hinder margin. The snh- 
median vein is simple. 
Head and face smooth. Without ocelli. Antennas filiform, as long 
as the fore wings. Labial palpi slender, ascending, cylindrical; the 
second joint with appressed scales, not tufted; the terminal joint point¬ 
ed. Maxillary palpi rather long, filiform. Tongue clothed with scales. 
In the small species of this genus, the maxillary palpi are less devel¬ 
oped, and the labial palpi are almost drooping. In the dried specimen 
the labial palpi are almost always more or less drooping. 
The species of this genus are elegant in form and often gaily color¬ 
ed or prettily mottled. The position of the imago at rest is extremely 
characteristic, but not peculiar to it. The front of the body is eleva¬ 
ted by the fore legs being held vertically, so that the tips of the wings 
touch the surface on which the insect rests. The imago appears to be 
about to poise itself on its wing-tips, or to have raised its head into a po¬ 
sition of profound attention. The larvae have only fourteen feet; when 
young they mine the leaves, but at a later period of growth many of 
the species constrnct cones, by rolling up a portion of the leaf. They 
devour the inner portion of the cone, which thus becomes discolored 
and easily observed. 
The description of the species below was made originally from a poor 
specimen, and I therefore take this opportunity to amend it from a per¬ 
fect specimen which I mistook at first for a distinct species. 
G. venustella. —Proc. Ac. ISTat. Sci. Jan. 1860, p. 6. Fore wings dark fuscous, 
Avith four equi-distant costal streaks, the first, near the base of the wing, quite 
short; the second extended obliquely across, or nearly across, the wing and con¬ 
stricted or partially interrupted near the middle; the third l^ewise oblique, 
but narrower than the second, extended to the middle of the wing; the fourth, 
near the tip of the Aving, slender, curved, nearly vertical to the costa and all 
dark-margined internally. The basal portion of the inner margin is Avhite. Cilia 
dark fuscous, at the tip of the wings white, touched with black at their ends, 
and having a few black-tipped scales in the middle of the Avhite spot. Hind 
wings dark fuscous, cilia the same. 
Antennse fuscous. Head and face white. Labial palpi white, the 2nd joint 
fuscous at its end and the third with a broad fuscous ring, leaving the extreme 
tip white. 
Taken on wing the 25th of July. 
GELECHIA Zeller. 
Hind wings trapezoidal.^ slightly or deeply emarginate helow the apex. 
