REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 105 



Specimens from British Columbia and Ontario have been sent to 

 me under this name, but all these are referable to other species 

 {klamathiana or sciadopa) to which there is, in some cases, a super- 

 ficial resemblance. The genitalia of canculensis show no close re- 

 semblance to those of the other species, and canadensis is further dis- 

 tinguishable from them by lacking discal spots that thei others possess. 



AGONOPTERIX FLAVICOMELLA (Engel) 



Plate 30, Figures 173, 173a ; Plate 45, Figuee 267 



Depressaria flaricomella Engel, Ent. News, vol. 18, p. 276, 1907. — Metriok, in 



Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, 



Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 324, 1939. 

 Agonopteryx flavicomella (Engel) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 199, 



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

 Agonopterix flavicomella (Engel) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 



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



8420, 1939. 

 Agnoptcryx flavicomella (Engel) Smith, Catalogue of the insects of New Jersey, 



p. 561, 1910. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 



Boreal America, No. 6463, 1917. — Brimi.et, The insects of North Carolina, 



p. 304, 1938. 



Labial palpus and head pale whitish ochreous; second segment of 

 palpus strongly irrorated and suffused with blackish fuscous exteriorly 

 and in brush ; third segment immaculate ; sides of head slightly darker. 

 Antenna grayish fuscous narrowly annulated with fuscous. Thorax 

 and basal part of fore wing (except costa) light ochreous; thorax 

 suffused and lightly irrorated with reddish brown and with a black- 

 ish-fuscous spot on each side beneath inner edges of tegulae. Ground 

 color of fore wing light ochreous heavily overlaid with reddish brown 

 and fuscous and irrorated with black; beyond the light basal patch 

 a dark blackish-fuscous shade, which rapidly fades to reddish, then 

 to ochreous at apical part of wing; basal part of costa suffused with 

 fuscous; costa and termen marked with a series of black spots, those 

 around termen more conspicuous than those on costa; at basal third 

 a conspicuous black discal spot followed by a similar but larger one 

 at middle and another larger more diffused one at end of cell; be- 

 tween the first and second discal spots and the inner margin (on vein 

 Ic) a somewhat diffused black spot; cilia fuscous, darker basally. 

 Hind wing grayish fuscous with a series of blackish- fuscous dashes 

 around apex and outer margin ; cilia yellowish fuscous with an indis- 

 tinct dark subbasal band. Legs light whitish ochreous strongly over- 

 laid or suffused with shining sooty black except at joints and on pos- 

 terior tibiae. Abdomen pale whitish ochreous irrorated with fuscous 

 above; ventrally with a broad blackish-fuscous longitudinal line on 



