REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 123 



Remarks. — The species is easily recognizable from Walsingham's 

 description and figure. There is one specimen from Washington State 

 that has the head and thorax dark reddish brown instead of the usual 

 gray. 



AGONOPTERIX SANGUINELLA (Busck) 



Plate 33, Figures 189, 189a 



Depressaria sanguineUa Btjsck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 738, 1902. — 

 in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5861, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, List 

 of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6404, 1903. — IMeyrick, in Wyts- 

 man. Genera insectorum, fasc. 180 p. 176, 1922. — Gaedb. in Bryk, Lepidopter- 

 orum catalogue, pt. 92, p. 348, 1939. 



Agonoptenjx sanguineUa Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 199, 1908. 



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

 of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), 

 No. 8445, 1939. 



Agnoptenjx sangui^icUa (Busck) Baenes and McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6458, 1917. 



Labial palpus pale grayish ochreous; second segment sparsely ir- 

 rorated with black exteriorly; third segment with a small spot near 

 base anteriorly, and apex black. Antenna dark fuscous. Face, head, 

 and collar of thorax light straw color, the scales of the head with a 

 grayish suffusion. Thorax and fore wing gray, sparsely irrorated 

 with black and with a carmine tint, the carmine color more pronounced 

 along costa and apex of fore wing; extreme base of wing and costa 

 pale grayish ochreous, the former followed by and the latter narrowly 

 edged with black; at basal third two obliquely placed black discal 

 spots edged with a few carmine scales; at end of cell a white discal 

 spot conspicuously edged w4th carmine; from the discal spot at end 

 of cell an inwardly oblique, blackish dash not reaching costa; cilia 

 gray with reddish suffusion and sparse black irrorations; termen with- 

 out row of dark spots. Hind wing light ochreous fuscous ; cilia con- 

 colorous with subbasal and two jDarallel fuscous bands and with whit- 

 ish irrorations apically. Legs pale grayish ochreous irrorated and 

 suffused with blackish fuscous except at joints. Abdomen pale 

 grayish ochreous irrorated with black and with a row of black spots on 

 each side beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe slender, clothed with long, fine hairs ; cucul- 

 lus pointed; clasper short, straight, bluntly pointed; sacculus mod- 

 erately sclerotized. Anellus slightly longer than broad, v/ith small 

 lateral lobes; posterior margin with shallow cleft; basal portion con- 

 stricted. Aedeagus stout, slightly curved, bluntly pointed; vesica 

 armed with numerous strong spinulate cornuti. Vinculum rounded. 

 Transtilla a sclerotized band with well-developed lateral lobes. 

 Gnathos a spined knob. Socii fleshy, hairy flaps. Tegumen termi- 

 nating in a blunt point. 



