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Alar expanse, 9-12 mm. 



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

 Tyj)e locality. — Oak Station, Allegheny County, Pa. 

 Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distnhution. — Eastern United States from Maryland northward 

 to Maine. 



United States records 



Connecticut: East River, $ (July 8, 1909, Charles R. Ely). 



District of Columbia: Anaeostia, $, 5 (7-VI-1910, P. R. Myers). 



Maryland: Plummers Island, 4 $ S,2 5 $ (June 1903, A. Busck). 



New Hampshire: 2 $ $ (A. Busck). 



New Jersey: Essex County Park, $, 9 (June 24-30, W. D. Kearfott) ; Mont- 



clair, 2 S $, S 5 5 (June, July dates, 1913, 1920, W. D. Kearfott). 

 New York: Ithaca {teste Forbes). 

 Pennsylvania: New Brighton, S $ $ (June, July, 1907 and 1911, H. D. Merrick) ; 



Oak Station, Allegheny County, 14 $ $, Q 5 5 (June, July dates, 1911, 



Fred Marloff ) . 



Remarks. — This species has been recorded *^ from JMexico and Costa 

 Rica but the specimens I have seen, determined as this species, are 

 referable to other genera. 



16. Genus DECANTHA Busck 



Plate 3, Figure 19 ; Plate 7, Figuee 55 ; Plate 10, Figukes 66, 66a ; 

 Plate 14, Figure 91 



Decantha Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 202, 1908; vol. 47, p. 31, 

 1915. — Walsingham, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4, p. 

 422, 1915. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, p. 161, 1917. — jMeyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorimi, 

 fasc. ISO, p. 24, 1922.— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir OS, 

 p. 248, 1923 ; in Leonard, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 101, p. 540, 

 1928.— Fletcher, Mem. Dept. Agr. India (Ent. Ser.), vol. 11, p. 64, 1929.— 

 Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 88, p. 23, 1938. (Genotype: 

 OecopJiora borkhausenii Zeller, Isis von Oken, vol. 3, p. 192, 1839.) 

 Head sm^ooth; tongue developed. Antenna ciliated in male; basal 



segment with pecten. Labial palpus long, recurved; second segment 



roughened in front and thickened with appressed scales; terminal 



segment shorter than second, acute. 



Fore wing elongate, pointed, 11 veins; 2 from toward angle, 3 



from angle, 7 and 8 coincident, to costa ; 11 from middle. 

 Hind wing narrower than fore wing, 8 veins; 3 and 4 remote, 4 



from angle; 5 to 7 r)arallel. 

 Male genitalia. — Harpe without clasper. Anellus with elongate, 



strap-like, lateral processes. Gnathos not spined. Vesica with strong 



cornuti. Uncus pointed. 



*» Walsingham, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4, p. 143, 1912. 

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