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Canadian records 



Nova Scotia: Digby, $ (IX-19-07, J. Russell) ; White Point Beach, Queens 



County, 5 (VIII-20-34, reared, J. McDunnough). 

 Ontario: Biscotasing (May 16, 1931, Karl Schedl) ; Constance Bay (October 3, 



1932, W. J. Brown). 

 Quebec: Kazubazua (August 13-23, 1933, G. S. Walley) ; Laniel (June 3, 1932, 



H. S. Fleming). 



Remarks. — The identity of this species and the invalidity of 

 Walsingham's name have been established by Busck.-" 



AGONOPTERIX FUSCITERMINELLA, new species 



Plate 28, Figuees 167, 167a ; Plate 44, Figuke 258 



Depressaria yeatiana Walsingham (not Fabricius) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1881, p. 316. 

 Depressaria arenella Wai^singham (not Schiffermiiller), Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 



vol. 10, p. 175, 1882. — Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 



America. No. 5253, 1891.— Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 743, 1902 ; 



in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5877, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, 



Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6420, 1003. — Meyeick, 



in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922. 

 Agonopteryx arencUa Busck (not Schiffermiiller), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



35, p. 199, 1908. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 



of Boreal America, No. 6446, 1917. 



Antenna fuscous, faintly and narrowly annulated with ochreous; 

 apex and underside of basal segment whitish ochreous sprinkled with 

 black or dark-brown scales outwardly; palpus with brush well de- 

 veloped; terminal segment with black subbasal and supramedial 

 annuli and black tip. Face and head whitish ochreous, the latter 

 intermixed with brownish scales. Thorax whitish ochreous ; dorsally 

 the ground color is liberally mixed with brown and blackish scales. 

 In the posterior half are two crests of raised scales. Fore wing with 

 ochreous ground color strongly overlaid with reddish brown and 

 liberally sprinkled with fuscous to black scales ; extreme base ochreous 

 followed, in dorsal half, by a strong red-brown patch, the latter 

 mixed with black in basal part; at the base of cell two small obliquely 

 placed black spots followed by a strong fuscous or black cloud; the 

 latter surrounded by a reddish-brown suflfusion; at the end of cell 

 another small black spot. Costa and termen with conspicuous black 

 spots. Cilia ochreous with brown scales intermixed and the whole 

 with a distinct rosy tinge. Hind wing whitish, strongly suffused 

 apically with fuscous; scales at base of cilia, along termen. and fre- 

 quently around posterior margin, black. Cilia light brownish 

 ochreous. Underside of hind wing with many black scales in apical 

 half. Legs ochreous ; fore leg with femur fuscous inwardly ; anterior 

 surface of tibia bright pink with overlying brownish scales, the 



2« Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 739, 1902. 



