Xylorictidae 
FAMILY XYLORICTID/E 
A small family which contains in our fauna two genera and 
nine species. The group may be represented by Stenoma 
schlaegeri Zeller, which is portrayed on Plate XLVIII, Fig. 41, 
by a male specimen. The insect is very common in the Appa¬ 
lachian subregion, and is particularly abundant in western 
Pennsylvania. 
FAMILY CECOPHORID/E 
“ Entomology is a science, not a pastime. ” — Westwood. 
This is another comparatively small family of interesting in¬ 
sects, numbering in our fauna about ninety species, which are 
distributed into thirteen genera. We can represent only a couple 
of them, for the purpose of showing the readers of “ The Moth 
Book” what they are like. 
Genus DEPRESSARIA Haworth 
(1) Depressaria heracliana De Geer. (The Parsnip Web- 
worm.) 
Fig. 247.— D. heracliana. a , larva, side view; b, dorsal view; c, pupa; d , 
anal extremity of pupa; e, moth, enlarged; f umbel of parsnip webbed together by the 
larvae, natural size. (After Riley.) 
Syn. he 7 'aclei Retzius ; umbellana Fabricius; umbellella Zetterstedt; pasti- 
nacella Duponchel; ontariella Bethune. 
The Parsnip Web-worm is an importation from Europe, 
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