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AGONOPTERIX CANADENSIS (Busck) 



Plate 45, Figure 262 



Depressaria canadensis Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 744, 1902 ; 



in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5878, 1903.— Keaefott, in Smith, 



List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6421, 1903.— Meyrick, in 



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



Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 311, 1939. 

 Agonopteryx canadensis Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35. p, 199, 1908. — 



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

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



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



No. 8424, 1939. 

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



Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6467, 1917. 



Labial palpus pale ochreous- white ; second segment evenly 

 springled with blackish fuscous exteriorly ; third segment with broad 

 subbasal and subapical annuli and tip black. Antenna fuscous with 

 indistinct black annulations. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale yel- 

 lowish gray; face creamy white; thorax with a few light-reddish 

 scales mixed ; pale base of fore wing diffused along costa, containing 

 a small black spot in fold and bounded below with a rapidly fading 

 blackish-fuscous shade ; remainder of fore wing irrorated with black- 

 ish-fuscous and black ; along costa and around termen to near middle 

 of inner margin a pronounced series of well-defined black spots; on 

 costa, in apical third of wing, and on basal half of inner margin a 

 rosy tint; at basal third a pair of rather large black discal spots, 

 obliquely one above the other and followed by a blackish-fuscous 

 shade above the middle of the wing ; at the end of cell a black discal 

 spot ; cilia yellowish gray, slightly darker than ground color of fore 

 wing. Hind wing light fuscous; cilia sordid whitish with yellowish 

 tint. Legs ochreous-white mottled and suffused with blackish fus- 

 cous except at joints. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate narrow, weakly sclerotized, pro- 

 duced anteriorly. Ostium occupying nearly all central portion of 

 genital plate ; inception of ductus seminalis well before ostium. Duc- 

 tus bursae membranous, very long, slender, gently tapering to form 

 the small bursa copulatrix. Signum of bursa a small, narrow, 4- 

 pointed plate, with anterior point longer than posterior. 



Alar expanse, 17 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — ^^Yinnipeg, Manitoba (A. W. Hanham). 



Remarks. — The female type is the only specimen of this species 

 I have seen. It is very distinct and should not be confused with 

 any other described North American species. 



