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Male genitalia. — With clasper. Anellus well developed, without 

 lateral processes. Uncus and socii fused. Gnathos a spined knob. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate strongly sclerotized, signum 

 present. 



Remarks. — This genus is closely allied to Agonopterix. 



BIBARRAMBLA ALLENELLA (Walsingham), new combination 



Plate 4, Figures 29, 30 ; Plate 9, Figures 65, 65a ; Plate IS, Figure 109 



Semioscopis alleiieUa Walsingham, Trans. Amer. Eat. Soc, vol. 10, p. 174, 1882. — 

 BuscK, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5894, 1903 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 35, p. 201, 1908.— Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6489, 1917. — Meyeick, in Wytsman, 

 Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 186, 1922.— McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Micro- 

 lepidoptera ) , No. 8464, 1939. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, 

 pt. 92, p. 369, 1939. 



Agonopteryx allenella (Walsingham) Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat 

 Memoir 68, p. 241, 1923 ; in Leonard, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 101, 

 p. 545, 1928. — Procter, Biological survey of the Moimt Desert region: The 

 insect fauna, p. 273, 1938. 



Labial palpus sordid whitish; second segment shaded with fuscous 

 on basal half and irrorated distally; slightly before apex a naiTOW, 

 incomplete, brownish-fuscous annulus; third segment with a spot an- 

 teriorly at base and a broad, supra-medial annulus brownish fuscous. 

 Antenna sordid whitish, narrowly annulated with fuscous; basal seg- 

 ment fuscous above. Head, thorax, and fore wing grayish white, suf- 

 fused and irrorated with fuscous ; at basal third, in cell, two fuscous 

 discal spots (sometimes confluent) of raised scales followed by some 

 ochreous scaling and with a few scales of white mixed; at the end of 

 cell a black-edged white discal spot of raised scales followed by some 

 ochreous scaling; along costa, and around termen to inner margin, a 

 series of fuscous spots; costa narrowly edged with pink (this pink 

 tint is obscure in some specimens but is strongly continued through the 

 cilia in others) ; cilia sordid whitish with a broad, pale grayish-fuscous 

 subbasal band. Hind wing pale grayish fuscous, darker apically; 

 cilia sordid whitish with a broad, pale grayish fuscous subbasal band. 

 Legs sordid whitish suffused and annulated with fuscous except at 

 joints and on hind tibia, the latter with pale ochreous suffusion and a 

 faint pink tint. Abdomen pale ochreous suffused with fuscous above. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broad ba sally, tapering to the pointed cucul- 

 lus, hairy ; sacculus broad, strongly sclerotized, clasper stout, dilated 

 distally, recurv^ed. Anellus a large sclerotized plate, pointed an- 

 teriorly, slightly concave posteriorly and without lateral hairy lobes. 

 Aedeagus long, slender, narrowly S-shaped; basally, on ventral side 

 a small, flat protuberance; vesica armed with minute cornuti. Vin- 

 culum broad, rounded, with a well-developed dorsoanterior process. 



