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and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8459, 1939 

 [cited as synonym of Epigraphia steinkellneriana (Scliiftermiiller)]. 

 Epigraphia eruditeUa Gkote, North Amer. Ent., vol. 1, p. 53, pi. 5, fig. 12, 1880.— 

 Meybick, in Wytsman, Genera insectornm, fasc. 180, p. 186, 1922. — Mc- 

 DuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of 

 America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8459, 1939 [cited as synonym of 

 Epigraphia stemkelhieriana (Schiffermiiller)]. 



Labial palpus sordid white ; second segment overlaid with blackish 

 fuscous exteriorly, except at base and apex, and lightly suffused with 

 pink ; third segment with a small black spot at base anteriorly and a 

 broad, black subapical annulus. Antenna light fuscous, narrowly an- 

 nulated with gray. Head with the scales light brown, tipped with 

 white and appearing gray. Thorax gray suffused with brown ante- 

 riorly and with a faint carmine tint. Fore wing light shining gray 

 marked with numerous faint, short transverse strigulae ; at the end of 

 cell an outwardly curved transverse black bar continued as a longitudi- 

 nal curved black line to extreme base of costa ; between the bar at the 

 end of the cell and the costa two longitudinal brown-edged black 

 dashes (sometimes fused) followed on costa by a small, indistinct light 

 brown shade; costa marked with poorly defined, light-brown spots 

 and dashes and narrowly edged with pink to slightly beyond middle ; 

 around termen to inner margin a series of small black spots; cilia 

 pale gray with a light-brown suffusion outwardly. Hind wing pale, 

 shining gray, darker apically; cilia paler, with narrow light brown 

 bands. Legs pale ochreous-white overlaid exteriorly, except joints 

 and hind tibiae, with blackish fuscous; pale areas with a faint pink 

 tint. Abdomen sordid ochreous with a slight fuscous suffusion 

 beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Very similar to memccella^ differing primarily in 

 characters of the aedeagus. 



Harpe long, rather narrow, slightly wider before cucullus ; costa and 

 cucullus sclerotized, area between membranous; cucullus narrow, 

 rounded ; sacculus produced to form a large forked process. Anellus 

 long, strongly curved posteriorly to form a semicylinder ; basolateral 

 lobes reduced to slight swellings, chiefly indicated by hairs. Aedeagus 

 long, sharply curved, pointed; vesica armed with an elongate patch 

 of small straight cornuti. Vinculum rounded. Lobes of transtilla 

 long, digitate, hairy, fused with anellus at base. Tegumen roimded. 

 Socii reduced to small hairy lobes. 



Female genitalia. — Much as in merriccella but differing by the 

 longer bursa and minute signum. Genital plate narrow, broadened 

 at middle to form the cup-shaped ostium. Ductus bursae a long, 

 slender, convoluted tube with a small, subtriangular sclerotized area 

 near ostium; inception of ductus seminalis at the sclerotized part. 



