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KEY TO THE SPECIES OF SCHIFFERMULLERIA BASED ON 

 COLORATION 



1. Ground color of fore wing dark brown to black with conspicuous 



white or whitish markings; no metallic scaHng. 



quadrimaculella (Chambers) (p. 248) 

 Ground color and markings otherwise 2 



2. Median longitudinal streak of fore wing reaching apex; deep 



golden-yellow lucidella (Busck) (p. 251) 



Median longitudinal streak of fore wing ending well before apex; 

 light golden-yellow edithella (Busck) (p. 250) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF SCHIFFERMULLERIA BASED ON 

 MALE GENITALIA 



1. Lateral processes of anellus extending well beyond base of harpe 2 



Lateral processes of anellus short, not extending beyond base of 



harpe (fig. 122) quadrimaculella (Chambers) (p. 248) 



2. Costa of harpe slightly convex (fig. 121) lucidella (Busck) (p. 251) 



Costa of harpe deeply concave (fig. 120) edithella (Busck) (p. 250) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF SCHIFFERMULLERIA BASED ON 

 FEMALE GENITALIA 



1. Anterior edge of genital plate straight or slightly concave; ostium 



deeply V-shaped (fig. 213) quadrimaculella (Chambers) (p. 248) 



Anterior edge of genital plate not straight or concave; ostium not 



deeply V-shaped 2 



2. Anterior edge of genital plate strongly convex (fig. 214) 



edithella (Busck) (p. 250) 

 Anterior edge of genital plate broadly forked (fig. 215) 



lucidella (Busck) (p. 251) 



SCHIFFERMULLERIA QUADRIMACULELLA (Chambers) 



Plate 20, Figukes 122, 122a ; Plate 39, Figuee 213 



Oecophora quadrimaculella Chambees, Cincinnati Quart. Journ. Sci., vol. 2, p. 292, 

 1877 ; U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 3, p. 129, 1877 ; p. 159, 1878.— Riley, 

 in Smith, List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5556, 1891. — Busck, in 

 Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. BuU. 52, No. 5927, 1903. 



Borkhausenia quadrimaculella (Chambers) Keakfott, in Smith, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6473, 1903. 



EpicaUima qnadrimaculelJa (Chambers) Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 

 p. 202, 1908. — Baknes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, No. G495, 1917. — Braun, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 73, p. 12, 1921. 



ScJiiffermneUeria quadrimaculella (Chambers) Meybick, in Wytsman, Genera 

 insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 27, 1922. 



Schiftermillleria quadrimaculella McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidop- 

 tera of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidop- 

 tera), No. 8365, 1939. 



Oecophora dimidiella Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 148, 1888. — Riley, in Smith, 

 List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5554, 1891. — Busck, in Dyar, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5925, 1903.— Anderson, Catalogue of British 

 Columbia Lepidoptera, No. 1098, 1904. (New synonymy.) 



