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edge; anellus roughly oval, emarginate on posterior edge; lateral 

 lobes undeveloped; aedeagus stout, pointed, slightly curved, with 

 large spinulate patch. Vinculum rounded. Transtilla a sclerotized 

 band with large lateral lobes, the latter with few strong, coarse hairs. 

 Gnathos an oval spined knob. Socii small, widely separated, with 

 few hairs. Tegumen truncated. 



Female genitalia. — Ostium large, oval at about center of genital 

 plate; genital plate membranous or sclerotized posterior to ostium; 

 ductus bursae long, membranous, slightly dilated at point of inception 

 of ductus seminalis ; bursa copulatrix large, asymmetrical, bulging on 

 left side ; oval, with oval, spined signum. 



Alar expanse, 16-18 mm. 



Type. — In the Canadian National Collection. 



Paratypes. — U. S. N. M. No. 52078. Also in Canadian National 

 Collection and collection of Dr. A. F. Braun. 



Type locality. — White Point Beach, Queens County, Nova Scotia. 



Food plant. — Hypericum virginicuTn L. 



Remarks. — Described from the $ type, IQ $ $ and 10 9 5 para- 

 types all from Wliite Point Beach, Queens County, Nova Scotia 

 (VIII-7 to 13-34, J. McDunnough) ; 2 5 $ , $ , Sparrow Lake, Ontario 

 (VII-1-26, A. F. Braun); $, Black Mountains, North Carolina 

 ("VII-20"). 



McDunnough misidentified this species and reported it under the 

 name A. hyperella Ely. In addition to the above I now have two 

 specimens from Chamcook, New Brunswick, Canada (4— 5-VIII-1938, 

 T. N. Freeman; Rf. Hypericum sp.) submitted by Dr. J. McDunnough, 

 and three specimens from Orrington, Maine (24-VII-1922, A. C. 

 Ward; Rf. Hypericum sp.), submitted by J. V. Schaffner. 



AGONOPTERIX LYTHRELLA (Walsingham) 



Plate 25, Figuke 155 



Depressor ia lythreUa Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol 1, p. 257, 1889. — Busck, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 744, 1902; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, 

 No. 5879, 1903.— Ke,\rfott, in Smitli, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 

 America, No. 6422, 1903. — Meyrick, in W.ytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 

 180, p. 176, 1922.— Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 332, 

 1939. 



Agonopteryx lythrella (Walsingham) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 35, p. 

 199, 1908.— FoEBES, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 68, p. 240, 1923. 



Agonopterix lythrella (Walsingham) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

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

 No. 8437, 1939. 



Agnopteryx lythrella (Walsingham) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6468, 1917.— Bbimley, The Insects 

 of North Carolina, p. 304, 1938. 



