REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 63 



in pale basal patch two small blackish-fuscous 

 spots; along costa and around termen a series of blackish-fuscous spots, 

 those around termen small and indistinct ; at end of cell a white discal 

 spot edged with blackish fuscous and preceded by a long, curved, 

 blackish-fuscous discal dash ; cilia light grayish ochreous, suffused with 

 brown. Hind wing gi-ayish fuscous; cilia white with grayish-fuscous 

 basal band. Legs white suffused with fuscous ; tarsi of hind legs with a 

 fuscous spot at the base of each. Abdomen grayish ochreous above 

 suffused with fuscous ; beneath, whitish sparsely irrorated with fuscous 

 scales and with a row of blackish-fuscous spots on each side ; between 

 these rows of spots two rows of smaller spots of the same color. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broad, profusely clothed with fine hairs, par- 

 ticularly basally; cucullus pointed; sacculus moderately sclerotized, 

 broad; clasper slender, heavily sclerotized, hooked, reaching two-thirds 

 distance toward costa and without basal protuberance ; anellus moder- 

 ately sclerotized, oval, broader than long, with weak lateral hairy 

 lobes. Vinculum with a well-developed dorsoanterior process. 

 Aedeagus nearly straight, wedge-shaped, bluntly pointed. Transtilla 

 a narrow sclerotized band, with sparsely hairy, lateral lobes. Gnathos 

 a finely spined, elongate-oval knob. Socii weakly sclerotized, broad, 

 hairy flaps. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate moderately sclerotized. Ostium 

 near middle of genital plate. Ductus bursae long, slender, mem- 

 branous. Bursa copulatrix oval; signum a small, irregular, sclero- 

 tized plate, armed with short thornlike teeth. 



Alar expanse, 15-20 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — "New York." 



Distribution. — Eastern United States and Canada. 



United States records 

 District of Columbia: Chain Bridge, 2 9 5 (October 20, 1920, A. Busck). 

 Maryland: Cabin John (11-26-11, F. Knab) ; Plummers Island, 29 5 5, 14 9 9 



(March and April dates ; A. Busck and H. S. Barber). 

 New Jersey: Essex County Park, 9 ("June 10," W. D. Kearfott). 

 New York: 2 9 9 (Beutenmiiller) ; Ithaca, 2 9 9 (6-15-V-30, A. B. Klots) ; 



Rochester, 2 9 9 (8-VII-33, A. B. Klots). 

 Pennsylvania: New Brighton, 10<J 5, 10 9 9 (May and August to November 



dates, H. D. Merrick) ; Oak Station, Allegheny County, 3 $ S, 9 (July and 



September dates; Fred Marloff). 



Canadian records 



Manitoba: Aweme (2S-IX-23, N. Criddle) ; Winnipeg, $ (A. W. Hanham. 



no date) ; 9 ("1-5-98," no collector). 

 Ontario: Ottawa (28-VIl-2-VIII-190o, C. H. Young). 



