REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 117 



ochreous with a median fuscous band; face shining creamy-white. 

 Thorax and fore wing light brown; thorax strongly suffused with 

 brownish fuscous ; surface of fore wing irrorated with poorly defined 

 blackish-fuscous spots and with a series of similarly colored spots 

 around termen ; at basal third, in cell, two black discal spots obliquely 

 one above the other ; another similar spot at the end of cell preceded 

 by a poorly defined blackish-fuscous cloud; extreme base of costa 

 fuscous; a well-defined black spot in inner angle; cilia light brown 

 suffused with fuscous. Hind wing shining light yellowish fuscous; 

 cilia more whitish. Legs whitish ochreous overlaid and mottled with 

 fuscous except at joints. Abdomen dark yellowish fuscous. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe moderately clothed with long hairs [cucuUus 

 broken from each harpe] ; sacculus only moderately sclerotized ; 

 clasper nearly straight, slightly dilated distally, reaching fully two- 

 thirds of the distance toward the costa. Anellus broadly oval, 

 posterior edge strongly convex, smooth ; with very small lateral lobes. 

 Vinculum roimded. Aedeagus nearly straight, stout, and deeply 

 notched distally. Transtilla a broad, sclerotized band with large 

 lateral lobes. Gnathos a finely spined cone. Socii small, weak, 

 sparsely clothed with hairs. Tegumen produced into a moderately 

 large broad flap. 



Alar expanse, 21 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — "Nebraska." 



ReTiiarks. — The only specimen I have seen is the type male. This 

 is very distinct from any other North American species. 



AGONOPTERIX AMISSELLA (Busck) 



Plate 33, Figubes 187, lS7a ; Plate 46, Figure 269 



Depressaria amissella Busck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington., vol. 9, p. 89, 1908. — 



Meykick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 174, 1922.— Gaede, 



m Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 300, 1939. 

 Agonoptcryx amissella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 190, 1908. 

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



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



8425, 1939. 

 Agnopteryx amissella (Busck) Babnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 



Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6460, 1917. 



Labial palpus ochreous- white ; second segment with the brush suf- 

 fused with fuscous and sparsely irrorated with fuscous exteriorly; 

 third segment with subbasal and subterminal annuli black. Antenna 

 fuscous with light ochreous- fuscous annulations; basal segment 

 ochreous- white beneath. Head, thorax, and fore wing light ochreous- 

 brown; face shining ochreous- white ; thorax suffused with fuscous; 

 surface of fore wine: irrorated with black and blackish-fuscous scales 



