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17. Genus FABIOLA Busck 



Plate 3, Figure 25 ; Plate 6, Figure 41 ; Plate 8, Figures 61, 61a ; Plate 16, 



Figure 95 



FaUola Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 35, p. 202, 1908.— Barnes and Mc- 

 DuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, p. 161, 1917. — 

 Meteick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 23, 1922. — Forbes, 

 Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, p. 248, 1923 ; in Leonard, Cornell 

 Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 101, p. 546, 1928. — Fleh-cher, Mem. Dept. Agr. 

 India (Ent. Ser.), vol. 11, p. 96, 1929. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum 

 catalogus, pt. 88, p. 22, 1938.— Brimley, The insects of North Carolina, p. 304, 

 1938. (Genotype: Oecophora shalcriella Chambers, Cincinnati Quart. 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 2, p. 114, 1875.) 



Head with smooth, appressed scales and spreading side tufts ; tongue 

 developed ; antenna strongly ciliated in male ; basal segment without 

 pecten. Labial palpus long, slender, curved, smooth; terminal seg- 

 ment as long as second. 



Fore wing elongate; 11 veins, 2 from well before angle, 7 and 8 

 coincident, to costa. 



Hind wing narrow, ovate-lanceolate, 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate or 

 approximate ; 6 and 7 parallel. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe without clasper. Anellus with lateral pro- 

 cesses. Tegumen broad. Gnathos not spined. Socii absent. Uncus 

 present. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate strongly sclerotized, protruding; 

 ductus bursae membranous; signum absent. 



Remarks. — ^A derivative of Schiffermulleria, differing from it in 

 having veins 7 and 8 of the fore wing coincident, and a slender 

 extension of the sacculus. 



This genus contains two described North American species. 



FABIOLA SHALERIELLA (Chambers) 



Oecophora shalerieUa Chambers, Cincinnati Quart. Journ. Sci., vol. 2, p. 114, 

 1875. 



Faiiola shalerieUa (Chambers), Mettrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, 

 fasc. 180, p. 23, 1922.— Forbes, in Leonard, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., 

 Memoir 101, p. 546, 1928.— Braun, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 61, p. 46, 

 1935. — McDuNNOXJGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the 

 United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera ) , No. 8356, 1939. 



Oecophora shalleriella Rxlet, in Smith, List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, 

 No. 5557, 1891.— Busck, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5928, 1903. 



Borkhausenia shalleriella, Kearfott, in Smith, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 6474, 1903. 



Fabiola shalleriella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 202, 1908.— Barnes 

 and McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 6498, 1917.— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 68, p. 248, 1923.— 

 Fletcher, Mem. Dept. Agr. India (Ent. Ser.), vol. 11, p. 96, 1929.— Gaede, 

 in Bryk, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 88, p. 22, 1938. 



