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Type localities. — "Virginia" {sparsicilieUa) ; ? {contrariella, in- 

 scitella) ; "North America" {atropicta) . 

 Food plant. — Unlmown. 

 Distribution. — New York south to Florida and west to Texas. 



United States records 



District of Columbia: 2 $ 5 (no data). 



Florida: Altamont, $ (21-IX-1924, F. R. Cole); St. Petersburg, 3 S3, 9 



(April) ; Paradise Key, 2^ $ (3^111-1919, E. A. Schwarz aud H. S. Barber). 

 Georgia: Spring Creek, $ (18-V-1916, J. C. Bradley). 

 Maryland: $ (no data). 



Mississippi: Ocean Springs, 9 ( 29-VI-1921 ) . 

 New York: $ (William Beutenmiiller). 



North Carolina: Southern Pines. 2 5? (July S-15 ; Aug. 1-7). 

 Pennsylvania: York, $ (W. D. Kearfott). 

 Texas: Kerrville, S, 2 (May, 1906, F. C. Pratt) ; Harris County, $ (no data) ; 



Victoria, $ (6-10-18, J. D. Mitchell). 

 Virginia: Fortress Monroe, $ (VII-19-03, W. D. Kearfott). 



Remarks. — The white ground color and the contrasting black mark- 

 ings immediately distinguish this from all other species of the genus. 



The species is widespread but apparently not common in any one 

 localit}^ The specimen from Victoria, Tex., is the only reared exam- 

 ple I have seen, but its host is not recorded on the label. 



INGA TRIGAMA (Meyrick), new combination 



Cryptolechia trigama Meyrick, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 476, 1928. — 

 McDuNNOTJGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada aud the United States 

 of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8475, 1939. 



Head and thorax pale grayish. Palpus whitish with the basal 

 two-thirds of the second segment and basal, median and subapical 

 annuli of terminal segment dark fuscous. Fore wing light gray 

 with some scattered black scales. On costa a black spot at base and 

 before middle, some black scaling beneath and confluent with the 

 latter; inner and outer discal spots black; two strongly angulated 

 series of small black dots crossing wing outwardly; cilia pale gray, 

 with dark basal line. Hind wing and cilia light gray. 



Alar expanse, 20 mm. 



Type. — In the British Museum. 



Type locality.— Fort Davis, Tex., 5,000 feet. 



Food plant. — ^Unknown. 



Remarks. — This species is known to me only from the description. 

 I place it here with some hesitation, but its proper assignment can 

 be made only after an examination of the type. On pattern it 

 appears to be near sparsiciliella. 



