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and with a series of blackish-fuscous spots along costa and around 

 termen; extreme base of costa fuscous; light basal patch bordered out- 

 wardly by a transverse fuscous dash, which contains some jet-black 

 scales and does not reach costa; at basal third, in cell, two conspicuous 

 jet-black spots of raised scales, obliquely one above the other and fol- 

 lowed outwardly by a poorly defined fuscous shade ; discal spot at end 

 of cell inconspicuous or absent, but when present indicated by a few 

 whitish scales; cilia light ochreous-brown the scales tipped with 

 ochreous-white. Hind wing light fuscous, darker apically than 

 basally; cilia light yellowish fuscous tipped with ochreous-white and 

 with a narrow, fuscous subbasal band. Legs ochreous-white strongly 

 suffused and overlaid with blackish fuscous except at joints. 

 Abdomen ochreous-fuscous. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe rather narrow, pointed, only sparsely 

 clothed with hairs ; clasper very stout, straight, reaching three-fourths 

 of the distance to costa. Anellus roughly rectangular with trun- 

 cated posterior edge; lateral lobes small. Vinculum rounded. 

 Transtilla a narrow sclerotized band with large lateral lobes. 

 Aedeagus stout, curved, with a heavily sclerotized band basally; 

 vesica armed with a large patch of weak, spinulate cornuti. Gnathos 

 an elongate, oval knob clothed with fine spines. Socii weakly sclero- 

 tized, small, with few hairs. Terminal portion of tegumen pointed. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate narrow ; anterior edge in the form 

 of a strongly sclerotized crescentic bar. Ostium broad, oval, with a 

 small, strongly sclerotized area posterior to it. Ductus bursae mem- 

 branous. Bursa copulatrix small; signum of bursa a small, oval, 

 spined plate. 



Alar expanse, 17 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Kissimmee, Fla. (Wm. Beutenmiiller) . 



Remai'hs. — The only specimens I have seen of this species are the 

 type male and a paratype female. The species is quite distinct from 

 any other North American species. 



AGONOPTERIX LATIPALPELLA Barnes and Busck 



Plate 33, Figuees 188, 188a ; Plate 46, Figxjbe 268 



Agonopteryx latipalpella Baenes and Busck, Contr. Lepid. North America, vol. 



4, p. 233, 1920. 

 Agonopterix latipalpella (Barnes and Busck) McDunnoxjgh, Check list of the 



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



lepidoptera). No. 8432, 1939. 

 Depressaria latipalpella Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, 



p. 176, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 330, 



1939. 



The entire insect presents a roughened appearance due to the raised 

 scales that cover almost the whole surface. Labial palpus ochreous- 



