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am inclined to believe that the latter view is correct, but we must wait 

 for a more careful study of the type and the discovery of the larva to 

 settle the matter. 



PSILOCORSIS REFLEXELLA Clemens 



Plate 22, Figure 131 ; Pi.ate 40, Figxjre 222 



Psilocorsis reflexella Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 12, 

 p. 213, 1860; in Stainton, Tineina of North America, p. 150, 1872.— Busck, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 5, p. 207, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6394, 1903. — Busck, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 197, 1908.— Walsingham, Biol. Centr.-Amer., 

 Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4, p. 119, 1912. — Barnes and McDunnough, 

 Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6427, 1917. — Forbes, 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, p. 238, 1923 ; in Leonard, Cornell 

 Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 101, p. 545, 1928. — Procter, Biological survey 

 of the Mount Desert region. Part 6, The insect fauna, p. 274, 1938. 



Psilocorsis reflexa Chambers, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 4, p. 162, 

 1878. 



Crypt olecliia reflexella (Clemens) Chambers, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. 

 Bull. 4, p. 137, 1878.— Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 2, p. 151, 1889.— Riley, 

 in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5224, 1891. — 

 Busck, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5852, 1903.— Meyrick, in 

 Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. ISO, p. 197, 1922. — McDunnough, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 

 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8467, 1939. 



Cryptolechia cre-'^sonella Chambers, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 4, p. 

 86, 1878. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the 

 United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8467, 1939 (cited 

 as synonym of C. reflexella (Clemens)). 



Head ferruginous-brown. Labial palpus light ochreous with the 

 usual dark stripes; second segment with some fuscous shading exte- 

 riorly. 



Thorax and fore wing ochreous strongly overlaid and mottled with 

 reddish fuscous; inner and outer discal spots usually ill defined, 

 blackish fuscous; terminal row of spots confluent forming a nar- 

 row, poorly defined blackish-fuscous line; cilia yellowish fuscous 

 with a dark subbasal band. Hind wing and cilia yellowish fuscous, 

 the cilia with a dark subbasal line. Legs whitish ochreous suffused 

 with dull fuscous. Abdomen fuscous above and whitish ochreous 

 beneath. 



First abdominal segment simple. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe moderately clothed with hair; sacculus 

 narrow, weakly sclerotized. Anellus a broad, oval, cupped plate, 

 strongly sclerotized basally; lateral lobes greatly exceeding central 

 plate, slender, no thicker distally than basally. Aedeagus stout, 

 sharply bent, pointed; vesica armed with one large, stout cornutus 

 and a patch of strong, but smaller ones. Vinculum with a pointed 

 dorsoanterior process. 



