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I have examined the type of eupatoriieUa in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology and have made a slide of the female genitalia. 

 This and plumineTella appear to be identical ; ewpatoriiella was syn- 

 onymized with pulvipeiineUa Clemens through misidentifications made 

 by Lord Walsingham. The specimens in the United States National 

 Museum, referred to by Busck,^^ are clearly p^dvipenneUa; pulvipen- 

 nella lacks the rough scaling which is found on the wings of eupatori- 

 ieUa and so cannot be confused with it. Chambers clearly states in 

 his description of eupatoriieUa^ "the palpi and wings dusted with 

 blackish atoms, each of which is a minute tuft * * *" 



AGONOPTERIX PULVIPENNELLA (Clemens) 



Plate 27, Figures 164, 164a ; Plate 43, Figure 253 



Depressaria pulvipennella Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 2, p. 421, 

 1864.— Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 9, p. 157, 1S68.— 

 Chambers, Can. Ent., vol. 4, p. 91, 1872. — Clemens, m Stalnton, Tineina of 

 North America, p. 244, 1872. — Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, No. 5276, 1891.— Busck. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 737, 

 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5858, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, 

 List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6401, 1903. — Meybick, in 

 Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. ISO, p. 176, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, 

 Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 342, 1939. 



Depressaria fulvipcvnelJa Dietz, in Smith, Catalogue of the insects of New 

 Jersey, p. 474, 1900. 



Depressaria soUdagivis Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 255, 1899. — Riley, in 

 Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5281, 1891. 



Agonopteryx pnlvipcnneUa (Clemens) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 

 p. 198, 1908— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir G8, p. 238, 1923. 



Agonopterix pulvipennella (Clemens) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

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

 tera). No. 8410, 1939. 



Agnopteryx pulvipennella (Clemens) Smith, Catalogue of the insects of New 

 Jersey, p. 561, 1910. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 6449, 1917. 



Agnopteryx pulvipenella Brimley, The insects of North Carolina, p. 304, 1938. 



Labial palpus whitish ochreous tinged with pink; second segment 

 irrorated with blackish fuscous exteriorly; third segment with basal 

 and subapical annuli and tip black. Antenna fuscous. Face shining 

 whitish ochreous. Head reddish ochreous suffused with fuscous pos- 

 teriorly. Thorax and fore wing light reddish ochreous mottled and 

 irrorated with blackish fuscous; extreme base of the light ground color 

 and followed by a rapidly fading fuscous shade that does not reach 

 costa; at basal third two black discal spots obliquely one above the 

 other, followed by a third, white discal spot at the end of cell; in 

 center of wing beyond the first and second discal spots a blackish- 

 fuscous shade surrounding the third discal spot ; along costa and around 



"Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 737, 1902. 



