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Canadian records 



Manitoba: Cartwright, 9 (X-11-03, E. F. Heath). 



Nova Scotia: Bridgetown, $, ? (5-9-IX-1912, G. E. Saunders). 



Ontario: Ottawa ( 5, April 28, 1905; $, May 7, 1905, C. H. Young) ; Trenton, 



$ (25-IV-1911, Evans). 

 Quebec: Meacli Lake (9, April 19, 1902; October 12, 1907, C. H. Young); 



Montreal, S (V-3-04, "A. F. W."). 



Remarks. — The variety of food plants indicates that this species 

 is a rather general feeder. I believe we are dealing with at least 

 two very closely related species, which can be separated only by a 

 careful comparison of larvae and pupae, the adult characters not 

 being sufficient for separation. Moths reared from Solidago are 

 darker, and the coloring is more suffused than in the majority of 

 specimens. This may be due entirely to the difference in food plant, 

 but there is not sufficient material at hand to determine this 

 definitely. 



The species appears to be confined to midwestern and eastern North 

 America. 



AGONOPTERIX WALSINGHAMELLA (Busck) 



Plate 28, Figukes 165, 165a ; Plate 44, Figuee 254 



Depressaria walsinghamella Busck, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 739, 1902. — 

 Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 356, 1939. 



Depressaria fernaldella Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 256, 1889. — Busck, in 

 Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5S64, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, List 

 of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6407, 1903. — Meyeick, in Wyts- 

 man, Genera insectorum, fasc. ISO, p. 176, 1922. [Not Depressaria fernal- 

 della Chambers, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 4, p. 82, p. 138, 1878.] 



Agnopteryx fernaldella Baenes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 6443, 1917. 



Agonoptcrix fernaldella (Walsingham) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

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

 tera), No. 8443, 1939. 



Agonopteryx walsinghamella Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, 

 p. 239, 1923. 



Agonopteryx icalsinghamiella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 198, 

 1908. 



Agonopterix walsingTiamiella McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

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

 8443, 1939. [As synonym of fernaldella (Walsingham).] 



Labial palpus pale cinereous strongly suffused with reddish ; second 

 segment irrorated with blackish scales exteriorly ; third segment with 

 blackish scales exteriorly; third segment with blackish-fuscous basal 

 and median annuli (the former poorly defined) and apex. Antenna 

 fuscous annulated with dull cinereous and tinged with reddish. Head 

 tawny-red with slight cinereous irrorations; face pale cinereous. 

 Thorax and base of fore wing, except costal part, cinereous ; fore part 



