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Alar expanse, 21 mm. 



Ty^e. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Pinal Mountains, Ariz. (R. Kunze). 



Remarks. — I have seen no specimens certainly referable to this 

 species, although I have before me a series from White Mountains, 

 Ariz., which may belong here. The specimens from this locality aver- 

 age considerably larger than the type of sanguinella but may be well 

 within the range of variation for this species. 



AGONOPTERIX AMYRISELLA (Busck) 



Plate 46, Figure 272 



Depressaria amyrisella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 233, 1901. — Dyab, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 4, p. 476, 1901. — Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 24, p. 741, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5872, 1903.— Keab- 

 FOTT, in Smithy List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6415, 1903. — 

 Meybick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 175, 1922. — Gaede, in 

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



Agonopteryx amyrisella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 198, 1906. 



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

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

 8427, 1939. 



Agnopteryx amyrisella (Busck) Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6446, 1917. 



Labial palpus yellowish white ; second segment with blackish-fuscous 

 base and with black irrorations ; third segment with apical third black, 

 subbasal fourth light reddish fuscous ; the whole palpus with a reddish 

 tinge. Antenna dark metallic greenish brown. Face yellowish with a 

 few brown scales. Head with erect scales, yellowish at bases, purplish 

 black toward tips, tips white with reddish tinge. Thorax yellowish 

 brown with violaceous scales intermixed and with a transverse crest of 

 six tufts of scales. Fore wing dark violaceous-brown sparsely irro- 

 rated with black scales ; extreme base yellowish, the color not extend- 

 ing to costa, and containing a black spot near inner angle ; beyond this 

 light basal patch a purplish-black fascia not attaining costa ; at basal 

 third, in cell, a few scattered purplish-black scales; at end of cell a 

 small white discal spot broadly edged with black ; on costa five rather 

 large blackish spots, the fourth (from base of wing) the largest, ex- 

 tending into cell and confluent with the black-edged white discal spot ; 

 around termen six to eight small black spots; cilia yellowish brown 

 with a narrow fuscous subbasal line and tinged with reddish. Hind 

 wing yellowish brown, much darker apically; cilia light yellowish 

 fuscous with a broad fuscous subbasal band. Legs pale yellowish 

 brown irrorated and suffused with purplish black except at joints. 

 Abdomen pale yellowish brown infuscated above and with a row of 

 black spots on each side beneath. 



