REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 153 



Bursa copulatrix large, definitely asymmetrical, elongate; sigiium a 

 minute toothed plate in posterior end of bursa. 



Alar expanse, 21-28 mm. 



Type. — In the Acadamy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Type locality. — Not stated; probably Massachusetts. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — Northeastern United States and eastern Canada. 



United States records 



Maine: Bar Harbor, $ (2-V-1936, A. E. Brower). 



Michigan: No specific locality, $, 9 (male without date; 2, 14-V-1885, 



Gillette). 

 New Jersey: Montclair, S, 9 (13-V-1900, l-V-1899, W. D. Kearfott). 

 New York: Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Albany (ace. Forbes). 

 Ohio: Cincinnati, 2 $ S, 9 (18-IV-1911, A. F. Braun). 

 Pennsylvania: Franconia, Montgomery County, 2 (no date or collector) ; New 



Brighton, 3$S, 35$ (April 1902-1908, H. D. Merrick); Oak Station, 



Allegheny County, 76$, 52$ (April and May dates, 1902-1915, Fred 



MarlofE) . 



Canadian records 



Manitoba: Cartwright, 2 (no date; E. F. Heath). 



Quebec: Burbridge (May 25, 1937, F. A. Urquhart) ; Meach Lake (April 27, 1899, 

 C. H. Young). 

 Remarks. — This species will probably be found throughout the 

 mid western United States and Canada as far west as British 

 Columbia. 



SEMIOSCOPIS MERRICCELLA Dyar 



Plate 23, Figitee 141 ; Plate 40, Figure 227 



Semioscopis merriccella Dyab, Can. Ent., vol. 34, p. 319, 1902. — Keaefott, in 

 Smith, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6437, 1903.— 

 BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 201, 1908.— Barnes and McDun- 

 NOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 64S5, 1917. — 

 Forces, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 68, p. 224, 1923 ; in Leonard, 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., IMemoir 101, p. 546, 1928. 



Epigraphia merrickella Meyiiick, 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, Microlepidoptera), No. 8459, 1939 

 [amended spelling for S. mcrrUccUa Dyar and cited as synonym of 

 Epigraphia steinkellneriana (SchifEermiiller) ]. 



Labial palpus white ; second segment suffused with blackish fuscous 

 exteriorly ; third segment with a fuscous spot at base anteriorly and a 

 broad black subapical annulus. Antemia with basal segment blackish 

 fuscous ; remainder light fuscous, narrowly and indistinctly annulated 

 with gray. Head and thorax gray, the latter rather strongly suffused 

 with fuscous. Fore wing light, shining gray lightly shaded and 

 strigulated with brown ; costa, from base to middle of wing, lighter ; 

 at the end of cell an outwardly curved blackish-fuscous bar followed 



