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Chambers, Can. Eut., vol. 4, p. 91, 1872; U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. 

 Bull. 4, p. 138, 1878.— Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 255, 1889.— Riley, in 

 Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5258, 1891.— Busck, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 749, 1902; in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 52, No. 5891, 1903 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 5, p. 217, 1903.— 

 Kh:abfott, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6434, 

 1903.— Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 200, 1908.— Babnes and Mc- 

 DuNNouGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6482, 

 1917. — Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 172, 1922. — 

 Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 68, p. 242, 1923.— McDun- 

 NOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of 

 America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8408, 1939. — Gaede, in Bryk, 

 Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 92, p. 278, 1939. 

 Depressaria clatisella Waxker, List of the lepidopterous insects in the collec- 

 tions of the British Museum, vol. 29, p. 564, 1864. — Walsingham, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1881, p. 312. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

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

 8408, 1939 (cited as synonym of cinereocostella Clemens). 



Labial palpus pale cinereous; second segment with submedial and 

 subterminal spots exteriorly blackish fuscous and with the brush 

 suffused with reddish; third segment with a dull blackish-fuscous 

 supramedial annulus. Antenna cinereous, narrowly annulated with 

 fuscous basally and suffused with reddish; beyond middle strongly 

 suffused with fuscous ; extreme tip cinereous. Face, head, thorax, and 

 ground color of fore wing cinereous ; collar fuscous ; head and thorax 

 irrorated with fuscous and suffused with red, the thorax and tegula 

 especiall}'- so anteriorly. Fore wing, except costa, heavily overlaid 

 with dull brownish red, so much so that the wing appears red with a 

 contrasting light costa, suffused with blackish fuscous in basal half 

 and irrorated with black and cinereous scales ; in fold and along veins 

 a series of longitudinal black dashes; extreme base of costa and anal 

 angle blackish fuscous; from middle of costa, around termen to inner 

 margin, a series of poorly defined blackish-fuscous spots; cilia fus- 

 cous suffused with red. Hind wing grayish fuscous, lighter basally ; 

 cilia pale fuscous, white tipped, with rosy tinge and with dark fuscous 

 subbasal and subterminal bands. Legs cinereous with dull blackish 

 irrorations and suffusion except at joints. Hind tibia with a dull 

 smoky streak exteriorly; outer pair of spurs dull black. Abdomen 

 cinereous with fuscous suffusion dorsally and a blackish-fuscous longi- 

 tudinal line on each side beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broadest at middle, sparsely clothed with 

 fine hairs ; cucullus rounded ; clasper absent ; sacculus broadly folded, 

 with long, pointed basal process; the basal process of the sacculus is 

 clothed with short, stout spines over its entire length. Anellus rec- 

 tangular, narrowed posteriorly; lateral edges concave in anterior 

 part. Vinculum bluntly pointed. Aedeagus long, slender, and 

 slightly curved ; bluntly pointed ; vesica with three to seven stout 



