REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 87 



Paratypes in the United States National Museum, Canadian Na- 

 tional collection, and the collection of H. H, Keifer, Sacramento, 

 Calif. 



The larva is as follows: Length, 14-16 mm.; head dark brov/n to 

 black. Thoracic shield greenish to light brown bisected by a whitish 

 median line and broadly bordered with black on the posterolateral 

 edges. Thoracic and abdominal segments green, the latter suffused 

 dorsally with reddish; from the mesothorax, in the dorsal half, two 

 broad longitudinal brown stripes; a third median longitudinal stripe 

 of the same color beginning at the first abdominal segment and con- 

 tinuing posteriorly the full length of the body. Thoracic legs green- 

 ish. Tubercles black. Spiracles edged with black. Anal plate light 

 brown. 



Pupa : At first yellowish green with the abdominal segments suffused 

 with reddish dorsally. In 24 hours the wing sheaths become green 

 and the abdominal segments reddish brown. The pupa finally turns 

 deep reddish brown; wing sheaths nearly black, but they still retain 

 a greenish sheen. 



The pupal period of 12 to 15 days. 



AGONOPTERIX NOVI-MUNDI (Walsingham) 



Pl.\te 28, Figures 168, 168a 



Depressaria paHJeUa novi-mundi Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 256, 1889'. — 

 Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5273, 

 1891.— BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 24, p. 74, 1902. 



Depressaria novimiindi (Walsingham) Busck, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 52, No. 5866, 1903.— Keakfott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 

 America, No. 6409, 1903. — Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 

 ISO, p. 175, 1922.— Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 

 335, 1939. 



Agonoptcryx novimundi (Walsingham) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. IMus., vol. 35, 

 p. 198, 1908. 



Agonopterix novimundi (Walsingham) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepi- 

 doptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidop- 

 tera), No. 8428, 1939. 



Agnopteryx noinmundi (Walsingham) Barnes and IMcDunnough, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6454, 1917. 



Labial palpus sordid whitish; irrorated with blackish fuscous 

 inwardly and outwardly on the second segment and in the brush; 

 third segment with black subbasal and supramedial annuli. An- 

 tenna blackish fuscous with grayish annulations. Head, thorax, and 

 ground color of fore wing grayish fu.scous, the latter heavily overlaid 

 with dull purplish fuscous ; head scales and dark scales of fore wing 

 tipped with cinereous; at base of fore wing an indistinct fuscous 

 patch followed by a poorly defined yellowish-brown shade; at basal 

 third an outwardly oblique black dash in disk edged with yellowish 



