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AGONOPTERIX NEBULOSA (Zeller) 



Plate 32, Figuees 185, 185a ; Plate 45, Figueb 266 



Dcpressaria nehulosa Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 23, p. 237, 1873.— i 

 Chambers, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 4, p. 138, 1878.— Walsing- 

 HAM, Proc. Zool Soc. London, 1881, p. 312.— Riley, in Smith, List of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5269, 1891.— Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 24, p. 741, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5870, 

 1903. — Kearfott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 6413, 1903. — Meyeick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 177, 

 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 334, 1939. 



AgonopteryoR nebulosa (Zeller) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 35, p. 198, 

 1908.— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68 p. 239, 1923. 



Agonopterix nclulosa (Zeller) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), 

 No. 8452, 1939. 



Agnopteryx nehulosa (Zeller) Smith, Catalogue of the insects of New Jersey, 

 p. 516, 1910. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, No. 6438, 1917. 



Labial palpus shining creamy white ; second segment sprinkled with 

 black scales outwardly and with brush suffused with white-tipped 

 fuscous scales; brush abruptly expanded, trumpet-shaped; third seg- 

 ment with broad subbasal and subapical annuli black; the black scales 

 of these annuli white tipped. Antenna fuscous annulated with gray. 

 Head, thorax, and fore wing lavender-gray, the scales white tipped; 

 face creamy white, tegula with a bluish iridescence; along costa and 

 around termen a series of poorly defined light fuscous spots ; at basal 

 third two black cliscal dots, the upper, inner one small, the outer, 

 lower one dashlike and both bordered outwardly with white scales; 

 at the end of cell a white black-edged discal spot preceded by a similar 

 one; sometimes these two are confluent, forming a white and black 

 longitudinal dash; cilia grayish fuscous with narrow median and 

 terminal white lines. Hind wing and cilia light yellowish fuscous, the 

 wing darker apically ; cilia with several, somewhat darker bands. Legs 

 ochreous-white, overlaid and irrorated with grayish fuscous above, 

 ochreous-white beneath; the usual longitudinal lines or rows of dark 

 spots lacking or only faintly indicated by a few blackish-fuscous scales. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe moderately broad, entirely clothed with fine 

 hairs; cucullus narrowly rounded; clasper stout, curved, slightly 

 hooked, reaching two-thirds of distance to costa. Anellus broadly 

 oval with poorly developed lateral lobes. Vinculum rounded. Aedea- 

 gus short, stout, straight, with a blunt point; vesica armed with 

 numerous spinulate cornuti. Transtilla a very narrow sclerotized 

 band with moderately large, hairy, lateral lobes. Gnathos an oval, 

 spined knob. Socii hairy flaps. 



