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ELECTIONS. 
The following persons were elected Corresponding Members of the 
Society:— 
W. 0. Currier, of Providence, Rhode Island. 
John Tepper, of Brooklyn, New York. 
AMERICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS, M. D. 
Tineina. 
GELECHIA. 
G. angustipennella.—Fore wings white, dusted with fuscous from the basal 
third of the wing to the apex, with a blackish brown dot in the middle of the 
wing behind the tip, and two dark fuscous dots near the costa at the base of the 
wing, beneath the second of which is an oblique, short fuscous streak Cilia 
fuscous. Hind wings dark fuscous, cilia the same. 
Antennae white dotted with fuscous above. Head and thorax white. Labial 
palpi white, second joint with a dark fuscous spot near the ends of the second 
jointj terminal joint with a broad blackish brown ring at the tip, leaving the 
extreme apex white. 
G. pnnctiferella.—Fore wings white. Near the base of the fold is a blackish 
dash, and above this in the middle of the wing is a blackish dot and a third 
one of the same hue, so placed posteriorly as to form a triangle with the other 
two. Immediately behind the latter and above the end of the fold, are two 
blackish dots, placed one above the other. Around the apex and posterior 
margins, the wing is dusted with dark fuscous. Cilia yellowish brown. Hind 
wings yellowish broAvn, cilia the same. 
Antennae yelloAvish-brown. Head and thorax rather sordid white. Labial 
palpi whitish, second joint dusted externally in the middle with fuscous ; 
terminal dusted with fuscous, extreme apex white. 
G. gilvolinella.—Fore wings pale yellowish, dusted with dark fuscous, espe¬ 
cially towards the tip and along the costa from the middle to the tip. Near 
the tip is an oblique, pale yellowish line from the costa, extended to a spot of 
the same hue beneath the tip. Behind this line in the middle of the wing is a 
blackish brown dot. Between the costal end of the line and the tip of the 
wing are Hvo or three small pale yellowish costal dots, and a few on the mar- 
