REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 119 



white; second segment irrorated with black and fuscous exteriorly 

 and suffused with fuscous in the brush; third segment with broad, 

 poorly defined blackish-fuscous basal and median annulations. 

 Head, thorax, and fore wing light ochreous-brown, the scales suffused 

 with fuscous and tipped with sordid whitish; collar narrowly black; 

 base somewhat lighter than the rest of wing, the light color diffused 

 for a short distance along costa and bordered outwardly by a strong 

 black shade, the latter from the middle to inner margin of wing; at 

 basal third an inconspicuous white discal spot (sometimes two) pre- 

 ceded by a few black scales, at the end of a cell a small white discal 

 spot broadly edged with black; cilia light ochreous-brown with a 

 narrow median fuscous band. Hind wing ochreous-fuscous, darker 

 around margins; cilia ochreous with narrow fuscous subbasal and 

 subterminal bands. Legs ochreous-white suffused and mottled with 

 blackish fuscous and fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous edged lat- 

 erally with numerous light ochreous-brown hairlike scales; beneath, 

 two broad, black, longitudinal lines broken into spots in posterior 

 half; between these two lines two indistinct parallel rows of spots. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe elongate, moderately narrow; sparsely 

 clothed with hairs; cucullus pointed; clasper long, slender, slightly 

 enlarged in middle; sacculus broad. Anellus rectangular; posterior 

 edge emarginate ; lateral lobes well developed, hairy. Aedeagus stout, 

 slightly bent, pointed ; vesica with a weak spinulate patch of cornuti 

 in basal half. Vinculum rounded. Transtilla a narrow sclerotized 

 band, with large hairy, lateral lobes. Gnathos a spined, oval knob. 

 Socii hairy flaps. 



Female gemtalia. — Genital plate broad, with a gently concave, nar- 

 row, sclerotized anterior edge. Ostium small, round, situated on pos- 

 terior margin of genital plate. Ductus bursae sclerotized behind incep- 

 tion of ductus seminalis, short, membranous before, gradually widen- 

 ing into the very large bursa copulatrix ; signum large, 3-pointed, with 

 a few large teeth on posterior margin. 



Alar expanse, 17-19 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — San Benito, Tex. 



Remarks. — The species is represented only by the type series from 

 Brownsville and San Benito, Tex. 



AGONOPTERIX POSTICELLA (Walsingham) 



Plate 33, Figures 180, 190a ; Plate 46, Ficuee 274 



Depressaria posticeUa Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 315, pi. 36, 

 fig. 5. — Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 5274, 1891.— BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 744, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5880, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith. List of the Lepidop- 

 tera of Boreal America, No. 6423, 1903. — MEYracK, in Wytsman, Genera in- 



