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well-defined spot at the end of the cell. A third specimen, from 

 Beutenniiiller's collection, has only a few blackish scales suggesting 

 this same spot. 



The female from Arizona, which I have identified as this species, 

 undoubtedly belongs here. 



AGONOPTERIX GELIDELLA (Busck) 



Plate 25, Figures 153, 153a ; Plate 42, Figxikes 247, 247a 



Depressaria gelidella Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, p. 90, 1908. — 



Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 177, 1922. — Gaede, 



in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 325, 1939. 

 Agoywpteryx gelideUa Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 198, 1908. 

 Agnopteryx gelideUa (Busck) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 



Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6450, 1917. 

 Agonopterix gelidella (Busck) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 



Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera ) , No. 



S451, 1939. 



Labial palpus yellowish white ; second segment purplish black out- 

 wardly tinged with carmine; third segment strongly suffused with 

 purplish black anteriorly, tip white. Antenna purplish black on 

 basal segment, remainder fuscous. Head grayish fuscous. Thorax 

 purplish gray; tegula purplish black tipped with whitish. Ground 

 color of fore wing dark purplish fuscous, sparsely irrorated with 

 black; near base, from inner margin, a transverse yellowish-white 

 streak, not reaching costa; on the disk, at basal third, a crescent- 

 shaped black dash with a few carmine scales mixed and followed by 

 a white patch ; at the end of cell a white spot edged with black ; costa 

 faintly spotted with whitish; from costa a poorly defined, narrow, 

 outwardly curved whitish line to inner margin before tornus ; around 

 termen a series of blackish- fuscous spots forming an almost continu- 

 ous fine line before cilia; inner margin and apical portion of wing 

 carmine tinted ; cilia grayish fuscous. Hind wing yellowish fuscous ; 

 cilia light fuscous with considerable white mixed. Legs yellowish 

 white inwardly, purplish black outwardly. Abdomen grayish fuscous 

 above, yellowish white beneath, suffused and irrorated with fuscous 

 and with a longitudinal row of black spots on each side. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe only weakly sclerotized and moderately 

 clothed with hairs; cucullus rounded; clasper very stout, somewhat 

 dilated distally; outer edge rough; reaching two-thirds distance to- 

 ward costa. Anellus narrow, longer than broad, roughly rectangular, 

 emarginate on the posterior edge; lateral lobes weak. Vinculum 

 broad, rounded. Aedeagus moderately stout, gently curved and ter- 

 minating in a sharp upturned point; just before middle a forked 

 sclerotized arm by which it is attached to the anellus. Transtilla a 

 weakly sclerotized band with large, hairy lateral lobes, the hairs fine 



