REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 121 



Food, plants. — Psoralea physodes Dougl., P. macrostachya DC, 

 and P. tenuiflora Pursh. 

 Distribution. — Western United States. 



United States records 



Arizona: Yavapai County, $ (no date). 



California: Fresno, $ (no date; E. A. Schwarz) ; Sacramento, S $ $ (V-11-S3), 



and Applegate, Placer County, $ (VII-14-32), all reared and sent to me 



by H. H. Keifer. 

 Colorado: Boulder, 2 ("May 14, Cockerell") ; other specimens (Dyar and 



Caudell, labeled "Colorado"); Chimney Gulch, Denver, $ (6-13). 

 Oreg-on: McMinuville, $ (VII-9-22, S. E. Keen) ; Salem, 9 ("March," E. Y. 



Lansing Jr.). 



Remarks. — This far-western species seems to be confined to the 

 area south of the Cohimbia River. A diligent search in the spring 

 of 1934 by W. W. Baker, of Puyallup, Wash., failed to reveal the 

 presence of this species in Washington State. Mr. Baker did, how- 

 ever, locate larvae of psoraliella (referred to in this paper), which 

 is found feeding with posticella in California. The food plant {P. 

 physodes) is rather widely distributed on the Pacific slope west of 

 the Cascades in both Washington and British Columbia, so the 

 species may eventually be found in both places. 



AGONOPTERIX PSORALIELLA (Walsingham) 



Plate 31, Figxjres 177, 177a ; Plate 46, Figure 271 



Depressaria psoraliella Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881, p. 317, 

 pi. 36, fig. 7. — Riley, in Smith, List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 527.5, 1891.— BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 740, 1902 ; in Dyar, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus, Bull. 52, No. 5865, 1903.— Kearfott, m Smith, List of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6408, 1903. — Meyrick, in Wytsman, 

 Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 176, 1922. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum 

 catalogus, pt. 92, p. 342, 1939. 



Agonoptcryx psoraliella (Walsingham) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 

 198, 1908. 



Agonopterix psoraliella (Walsingham) McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

 tera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidop- 

 tera). No. 8449, 1939. 



Agnopteryx psoraliella (Walsingham) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of 

 the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6442, 1917. 



Labial palpus pale gray; second segment strongly suffused with 

 fuscous and dull red exteriorly; third segment slightly tinged with 

 red and with subbasal and subapical annuli and apex black. An- 

 tenna fuscous with reddish tint. Head gray, lightly suffused with 

 fuscous and tinted with red laterally; face shining white. Thorax, 

 base of wing, and basal fourth of costa gray irrorated with deep 

 red-brown and black (thorax in one specimen wholly red-brown) ; 



