REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 111 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate narrow, emarginate behind ; ante- 

 rior margin in the form of a narrow, sclerotized, curved bar; ostium 

 occupying nearly whole ventral portion of genital plate and without 

 sclerotized area posterior to it. Ductus bursae membranous, abruptly 

 constricted before ostium. Bursa copulatrix oval ; signum an elongate 

 plate with posterior pointed process. 



Alar expanse, 19-20 mm. 



Type. — In the British Museum. 



Type locality. — Cambridge, Mass. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distrihution. — Northeastern United States. 



United States records 



Maine: Monmouth, S ( "November 30, '05" ) . 



Massachusetts: Amherst, 2 S S (January 21, 1906). 



New Hampshire: 2 $S without further data; Hampton, $, 2 (III-26-05, 



III-22-05, S. A. Shaw). 

 New York: New Windsor, $ (June 24, 1903, E. L. Morton). 



Remarks. — Differs from all other gray American species by the 

 accentuated trumpet-shaped palpus. 



AGONOPTERIX SABULELLA (Walsingham) 



Plate 32, Figotes 181, 181a ; Plate 46, Figure 270 



Depressarla sabulella Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 313, pi. 36, 

 fig. 1. — Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5279, 

 1891.— BusCK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 743, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5876, 1903. — Keaetott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 6419, 1903 ; Can. Ent. vol. 37, p. 296, 1905.— Meyeick, in 

 Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepi- 

 dopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 348, 1939. 



Agonopteryx sabulella (Walsingham) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 

 199, 1908. 



Agonopterix sabulella (Walsingham) McDunxough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera ) , No. 

 8412, 1939. 



Agnoptenjx sabulella (Walsingham) Barnes and McDunnougii, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6465, 1917. 



Agonopteryx callosella Barnes and Busck, Contr. Lepid. North America, vol. 4, 

 p. 231, pi. 38, fig. 4, 1920. (New synonymy). 



Agonopterix callosella (Barnes and Busck) McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Micro- 

 lepidoptera) No. 8421, 1939. 



Depressarla callosella (Barnes and Busck) Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insec- 

 torum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 

 92, p. 311, 1939. 



Labial palpus pale ochreous; second segment with slight fuscous 

 shading and blackish-fuscous irrorations exteriorly; third segment 



