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shorter spines of the lobes of the ovipositor. Until we know more 

 about the specimens from Aweme I decline to give them a separate 

 designation. 



The type of ovipositor found in this species is unique for the genus. 



AGONOPTERIX CLEMENSELLA (Chambers) 

 PLATE! 26, FiGUKES 159, 150a ; Plate 42, Figure 242 



Qelechia clemensella Chambers, Can. Ent., vol. 8, p. 173, 1876. 



Dcprcssaria clemensella (Chambers) Bxjsck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., vol. 27, p. 766, 

 1904.— Meyeick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 176, 1922. — 

 Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 315, 1939. 



Dcpressaria applana (Fabrlcius) Walsingham, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, 

 p. 175, 1882. — RiLET, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, 

 No. 5251, 1891.— BuscK, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5862, 1903.— 

 Kearfott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6405, 

 1903. 



Affonopteryx clemensella (Chambers) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., vol. 35, p. 

 198, 1908. 



Agonopterix clemensella (Chambers) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

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

 No. 8430, 1939. 



Agnoptcryx clemensella (Chambers) Babnes and McDuxnough, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6447, 1917. 



Agonopteryx applana clemensella (Chambers) Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. 

 Stat. Memoir 68, p. 239, 1923. 



Labial palpus yellowish white; second segment irrorated with fus- 

 cous exteriorly and with a strong pink suffusion in the brush ; third 

 segment with basal and broad subapical tumuli black. Antenna fus- 

 cous, somewhat lighter beneath. Head, thorax, and base of fore wing 

 very light yellowish gray with fuscous and reddish-brown irrorations 

 and a rosy suffusion. Ground color of fore wing reddish brown ; costa 

 and termen blotched with alternate fuscous and yellowish- white spots; 

 whole surface of wing marked with scattered yellowish-white scales; 

 discal spots four, white; one at end of cell preceded by one at middle 

 of wing; at basal third two, one obliquely above the other; the outer 

 surrounded by a dull fuscous cloud, the inner, oblique pair preceded 

 by a few black scales ; cilia reddish brown suffused with fuscous and 

 irrorated with yellowish white. Hind wing and cilia shining yellow- 

 ish fuscous, the latter with a fuscous basal band. Legs yellowish 

 white overlaid and irrorated with fuscous exteriorly; posterior pair 

 lighter in color, all with a rosy tint. Abdomen grayish fuscous above, 

 yellowish white beneath with four longitudinal rov.s of fuscous spots. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe slender, heavily clothed with hairs; sacculus 

 moderately sclerotized ; clasper slender, nearly reaching costa of harpe, 

 slightly thicker at middle, strongly curved toward the cucullus. Anel- 

 lus broadly rectangular, slightly constricted posteriorly; posterior 



