REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 107 



AGONOPTEUIX SENICIONELLA (Busck) 

 Plate 30, Figukes 172, 172a ; Plate 45, Figures 263 



Depressaria senicionella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 742, 1902; in 



Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5875, 1903.— Ke^vrfott, in Smith, List of 



the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6418, 1903.— Engel, Ent. News, 



vol. 18, p. 276, 1907. 

 Depressaria seniciella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 743, 1902. 

 Depressaria senecionella Meyeick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 



174, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 350, 1939. 

 Affonopfcnjx senecionella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. jNIus., vol. 35, p. 199, 1908.— 



Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, p. 240, 1923. 

 Af/onoptrrix soiicioiiella (Busck) McDunnougii, Check list of the Lepidoptera 



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



No. 8423, 1939. 

 Agnoptenjx senicionella (Busck) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 



Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6464, 1917. 



Labial palpus light ochreous ; second segment irrorated with black- 

 ish fuscous exteriorly ; third segment with subbasal and subterminal 

 annuii and apex black. Antenna fuscous with grayish-ochreous an- 

 nulations. Head and thorax light ochreous; face yellowish white; 

 thorax with brownish-ochreous suffusion and irrorations. Fore wing 

 dark ochreous-gray, strongly overlaid and suffused with brownish 

 ochreous; light basal patch suffused on costa with fuscous, contain- 

 ing a blackish-fuscous spot in fold and bordered outwardly by a 

 rapidly fading fuscous shade ; at basal third, in cell, two black discal 

 dots, obliquely one above the other ; the lower one of these two is often 

 lacking ; at the end of cell an inconspicous black discal dot preceded 

 by an indistinct fuscous shade; termen and costa indistinctly marked 

 with poorly defined fuscous spots ; cilia ochreous-gray with two nar- 

 row ochreous-white lines, one at middle and one around outer edge. 

 Hind wing grayish fuscous, darker apically; cilia light yellowish 

 fuscous with grayish-fuscous subbasal and subterminal bands. Legs 

 light ochreous overlaid with fuscous except at joints. Abdomen gray- 

 ish ochreous above; beneath light ochreous with a broad blackish- 

 fuscous line on each side ; between these two lines a pair of indistinct 

 longitudinal rows of blackish-fuscous spots. 



Male genHaUa. — Harpe rather broad, well sclerotized along costa; 

 clothed with fine hairs; cucullus rounded; clasper nearly straight, 

 modei'ately sclerotized and reaching slightly beyond middle of harpe. 

 Anellus oval, longer than broad, lateral lobes well developed, clothed 

 with few fine hairs. Vinculum narrow, rounded, with well-developed 

 dorsoanterior process. Aedeagus stout, slightly curved, bluntly 

 pointed ; ventral arm by which it is attached to anellus short, broad, 

 and situated near base of aedeagus. Transtilla a narrow sclerotized 



