Gnorimoschema gallaediplopappi

Gnorimoschema gallaeasterella

Our material consisted of a good series of specimens bred by myself on galls collected in a dry area on *Aster umbellatus* at White Point Beach, Queens County, and other specimens bred at Armdale, Halifax County, by D. Ferguson from galls on the same plant. These were all considered to be typical *gallaediplopappi* Fyles. They agreed with the rather sketchy original description with the exception of the color of the thorax, stated to be "reddish chocolate," but which in all our bred specimens proved to be white with the patagia edged on their inner sides by narrow dark lines.

At White Point Beach in 1954 the author collected a few *Gnorimoschema* specimens flying over small boggy areas in the vicinity. A search for galls produced several situated very low down on small plants of *Solidago uniligulata* [=*S. uliginosa*], and from one of these an adult was reared which matched the collected specimens excellently. These specimens also agreed well with Kellicott's original figure of *gallaeasterella* and with Fyles's notes on the species (1911) and were therefore considered to belong to Kellicott's species.

On some changes in nomenclature of microlepidoptera, with description of a new species