REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 57 



white in front, grayish above. Thorax lavender-gray overlaid with 

 cinereous to white scales. Fore wing dark grayish lavender shaded 

 with yellowish brown, especially toward inner margin; at base of 

 wing, from inner angle almost to costa, a transverse yellowish line 

 preceded by two black spots, one near costa, the other at inner angle ; 

 in center of cell a black crescent-shaped dash margined with yellowish 

 brown and followed by a grayish shade ; between the upper point of 

 this dash and the costa a small black spot similarly edged with yel- 

 lowish brown ; at the end of cell a conspicuous, though small, cream- 

 colored or yellowish spot edged with brown and preceded and fol- 

 lowed with a few scattered black scales; costa somewhat strigulated 

 with fuscous and grayish; around termen, at base of cilia, a thin 

 fuscous to black line; cilia light purplish fuscous mixed with gray. 

 Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia somewhat more brownish with a 

 fuscous basal band. Legs creamy white to yellowish shaded with 

 fuscous exteriorly except at joints. Abdomen grayish fuscous above; 

 beneath, yellowish overlaid with fuscous and with indistinct black 

 lateral lines. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe slender, moderately clothed with fine hairs; 

 clasper very stout, gently curved inwardly, its outer edge rugose; 

 cucullus bluntly pointed; sacculus short, broadly folded. Anellua 

 deeply incised on posterior margin, concave laterally; lateral lobes 

 scarcely developed. Aedeagus curved, pointed, with a short ventral 

 arm which articulates with the anellus; vesica armed with fine 

 cornuti. Vinculum rounded. Transtilla a narrow sclerotized band 

 with well-developed lateral lobes; each lateral lobe bears three long, 

 stout hairs. Gnathos a spined oval knob. Socii small, widely sepa- 

 rated. Tegumen truncated. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate broad, moderately sclerotized; 

 anterior edge convex, entire. Ostium large, round; at center of 

 genital plate. Ductus bursae membranous; inception of ductus semi- 

 nalis shortly before ostium. Bursa copulatrix without signum. 



Alar expanse, 15-18 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type localities. — Great Falls, Md., and Great Falls, Va. 



Food plant. — Hypericum proli-jicum L. 



Distribution. — Middle Atlantic States. 



United States records 



Maryland: Great Falls, 2 $ $, 9 (V-26-09, Chas. R. Ely) ; Plummors Island, $ 



(V-30-09, Chas, R. Ely). 

 Virginia: Great Falls, $ (V-31-10, Chas. R. Ely). 



Remarks. — Meyrick proposed testifica in place of hyperella think- 

 ing that the latter name was mtended for hypencella of Hiibner and 

 further states that hyperella is preoccupied by hypeHcella. Ely's 



