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end of cell, all blackish fuscous; costa, an elongate blotch on costa, 

 joined to outer discal spot, and apex blackish fuscous; cilia pale yel- 

 lowish fuscous iiTorated Avitli fuscous. Hind wing shining silvery 

 fuscous, darker apically; cilia pale yellowish fuscous. Legs pale 

 ochreous-white overlaid with blackish fuscous except at joints, and 

 hind tibia and tarsus. Abdomen pale ochreous narrowly edged with 

 silvery white on posterior margin of segments. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broad basally, gradually tapering to the 

 pointed cucullus; clasper stout, flattened, pointed; sacculus broad, 

 strongly sclerotized. Anellus an oval plate with strong, slightly 

 curved, flattened, pointed lateral processes. Aedeagus long, stout, 

 nearly straight; vesica armed with three large, toothlike cornuti and 

 a long one with a deep lateral excavation near its distal end. Vin- 

 culum long, spatulate. Gnathos long, beaked, excavated and armed 

 with small teeth on its posterior surface. Uncus strong, slightly 

 curved, sharply pointed. 



Female genitalia. — Ovipositor very long, segmented; anterior pair 

 of apophyses branched. Ductus bursae strongly sclerotized and di- 

 lated in posterior half; membranous anteriorly; inception of ductus 

 seminalis at junction of ductus bursae and bursa copulatrix. Bursa 

 copulatrix large, oval; signum a few, small sclerotized points. 



Alar expanse, 11-20 mm. 



Types. — Vienna Museum (?) {hetulinella, lactella) ; in the British 

 Museum (?) {fenestrella., sarcitella.^ subditella) ; in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia {kennicottella) ; in the Zoological 

 Museum, Berlin {antarctica) . 



Type localities. — Vienna {lactella) ; England (sarcitella) ; North 

 Westfield, Illinois {kennicottella) ; Carniola, Austria {fenestreUa) ; 

 Africa {antnrctlca) ; New Zealand {subditella) ; Europe {hetulinella) . 



Hosts. — Stored cereals, fruits and other products ; also reared from 

 birds' nests and refuse, dried skins, dried flesh, and wool. 



DistHhutlon. — This species is generally distributed throughout 

 most of the world. In North America it is found from coast to coast 

 as far north as Alaska. 



United States and Alaska records 



Alaska: $ (August 1904, C. V. Piper). 



California: Eureka, 5 $ ? (6-7-VI, H. S. Barber) ; Los Angeles, 3 9 $ (April, 

 Coquillett) ; Mills College, 2 S S, 2 5 $ (25-III-1908; 28-IX-1908, G. R. 

 Pilate) ; Nevada County, 3 ? 2 ("September"; no collector) ; r;i!o Alto, 

 $ (October 1914); Pasadena, $ (7-10-24; no collector); Placer County, 

 S, 4 9 9 (September; no collector); San Diego, $ (30-VI-1907, W. S. 

 "Wright) ; San Francisco, IQ S $ , $ (Jlarch; no collector) ; Saticoy, $ (Jan- 

 uary, 1926; no collector) ; Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou County, 5 $ $ , IS 9 9 

 (June to September dates; no collector). 



