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Oecophora neivmanella (Clemens) Keaefott, in Smith, Check list of the Lepidop- 

 tera of Boreal America, No. 6478, 1903. — Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 35, p. 203, 1908. — Barnes and McDunnough, Cheek list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Boreal America, No. 6499, 1917. — Barnes and Busck, Contr. Lepid. North 

 America, vol. 4, pi. 38, fig. 6, 1920.— Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., 

 Memoir 68, p. 249, 1923 ; in Leonard, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 

 101, p. 546, 1928.— Brimley, The insects of North Carolina, p. 304, 1938. 



Labial palpus orange-yellow; third segment with brownish suffu- 

 sion. Tongue yellow. Face, tegula, collar, and basal segment of 

 antenna brassy; remainder of antenna shining purplish black except 

 for about eight terminal segments, which are silvery white. Head, 

 thorax, and fore wing dusky black with a pronounced purple luster ; 

 from base of wing, along fold, an orange-yellow dash extending to 

 basal fifth; in cell, a similarly colored, longitudinal dash reaching 

 slightly past middle of wing (in some specimens the orange dashes 

 are weak or absent, this is especially true of the southern examples) ; 

 cilia fuscous, lighter apically. Hind wing dark fuscous ; cilia lighter. 

 Legs shining brassy. Abdomen fuscous above with a faint purple 

 sheen ; brassy below. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe narrow ; divided beyond sacculus ; sacculus 

 broad ; cucullus sharply pointed. Anellus a small plate ; lateral proc- 

 esses long, flattened, dilated distally. Aedeagus moderately short, 

 stout; vesica armed with numerous long, straight cornuti. Vinculum 

 narrowly rounded. Gnathos broad, thick, slightly excavated posteri- 

 orly and terminating in a long, sharply pointed process. Uncus long, 

 pointed. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate narrow; sclerotized posteriorly. 

 Ostium rather broad, oval, opening in membranous anterior part of 

 genital plate. Ductus bursae narrowly sclerotized adjacent to ostium, 

 with short blind sac from ventral surface anterior to sclerotized part ; 

 inception of ductus seminalis well before ostium. Bursa copulatrix 

 large, asymmetrical; signum a lightly sclerotized elongate, weakly 

 spined plate. 



Alar expanse, 14r-19 mm. 



Type. — In the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Type locality. — "Virginia." 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distrihutio7i. — Eastern United States and eastern Canada. 



United States records 



District of Columbia: Washington, $ (no date or collector). 

 Maryland: $ (May 30, 1916, A. Busck) ; 9 (May 30, 1906, H. S. Barber). 

 New Hampshire: Hampton, 2 S $ (lO-ll-VI-1911, S. A. Shaw). 

 New Jersey: Greenwood Lake, $ (June 10, 1900, Wm. Beutenmiiller). 

 New York: Numerous localities (ficie Forbes). 



