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763, 1904.— Anderson, Catalogue of British Columbia Lepidoptera, No. 1090, 

 1904. — Kearfott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 6403, 1903; Can. Ent., vol. 37, p. 296, 1905. — Meybick, in Wytsman, Genera 

 insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922.— Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum cata- 

 logus, pt. 92, p. 306, 1939. 



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

 p. 199, 1908.- Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, p. 238, 1923. 



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

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

 No. 8413, 1939. 



Agnoptcryx argillacea (Walsingham) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6459, 1917. 



Agonopteryx Uacella Barnes and Busck, Contr. Lepid. N. Amer., vol. 4, p. 232, 

 pi. 38, tig. 2, 1920. (New synonymy.) 



Agonopterix Nacella (Barnes and Busck) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepi- 

 doptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidop- 

 tera), No. 8422, 1939. 



Depressaria bJacella (Barnes and Busck) Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insec- 

 torum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922. 



Labial palpus, antenna, head, thorax, and fore wing pale grayish 

 ochreoiis; labial palpus suffused and lightly irrorated exteriorly on 

 second segment with fuscous; third segment with subbasal and sub- 

 apical annuli (the former poorly defined) and tip blackish fuscous; 

 antenna darker apically; face lighter than rest of head; pale basal 

 patch of fore wing diffused along costa and bounded below it by an 

 outwardly diffused but inwardly distinct blackish-fuscous shade; re- 

 mainder of fore wing sparsely irrorated with black scales ; along ccsta 

 and around termen a series of indistinct fuscous spots ; at basal third, in 

 cell, two black discal spots (sometimes containing some brown scales) 

 obliquely one above the other, followed by a blackish fuscous cloud 

 above the middle of the wing and reaching a sordid-whitish discal 

 spot at the end of cell ; the spot at end of cell is narrowly edged with 

 blackish fuscous and brown scales and usually preceded by a similar, 

 brown-edged white spot; cilia concolorous with ground color of fore 

 wing. Hind wing and cilia pale grayish ochreous, the latter with 

 light-fuscous basal band. Legs pale grayish ochreous suffused with 

 blackish fuscous except at joints. Abdomen light grayish fuscous 

 above; beneath, pale grayish ochreous with a lateral row of black 

 spots on each side. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe ample, moderately sclerotized and clothed 

 with hair; cucullus rounded; clasper slender, straight, reaching be- 

 yond center of harpe. Anellus broadly rectangular, somewhat nar- 

 rower basall}^, longer than broad and with weakly developed lateral 

 lobes. Vinculum rounded. Aedeagus moderately sclerotized; stout, 

 curved with apex pointed and sometimes slightly dorsally upturned. 

 Gnathos an elongate oval spined knob. Socii fleshy, hairy lobes. 



