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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF GELECHIA 



bianulella (Chambers). Synonyms: 

 ocellclla Chambers, sahinella Mey- 

 rick (nee Zeller). 



anarsiella Chambers. 



monella Busck. 



panella Busck. 



dyariella Busck. 



rileyella (Chambers). 



albisparsella (Chambers). Synonym: 

 platanella (Chambers). 



versuteUa Zeller. 



mandella Busck. 

 lynceella Zeller. 

 caudata Clarke. 

 trilineella Chambers. 

 desiliens Meyrick. 

 dromicclla Busck. 

 ohscurosuffusclla Chambers. 



canopulvella Chambers. 

 ribescUa Chambers. 

 benitcUa Barnes and Busck. 



Synonym : 



EUROPEAN SPECIES OF GELECHIA 



rhombella (SchLffermiiller). 

 muscoseUa Zeller. 

 hippophacUa Zeller. 

 rhombelliform is Staudinger. 

 sororealella Hiibner. 

 nigra Haworth. 



pinguinella Treitschke. 

 scotinella Herrich-Schaeffer. 

 cuncatclla Duponchel. 

 obscuripcnnis Frey. 

 sabinella Zeller. 

 asinella Zeller. 



Undoubtedly others belong here, but several intervening species in the Euro- 

 pean check lists do not belong to Oelechia as here restricted. 



2. Genus GNORIMOSCHEMA Busck 

 Plate 58, Fiqxjbb 2; Plate 65, FiotJBE 36 



Onorimo schema Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 227, 1900. (Genotype, 



Oelechia gallaesolidaginis Riley.) 

 Phthorimaca Meybick, Ent. Mon. Mag., vol. 38, p. 103, 1902. (Genotype, 



Oelechia operculella Zeller.) 



Third joint of labial palpus more or less thickened with scales 

 normally protruding beyond the apex. Fore wings with veins 2, 3, 

 4, 5, and 6 nearly equidistant. Hind wings with veins 6 and 7 parallel 

 or nearly so ; veins 3 and 4 connate or stalked ; 5 approximate to 4. 



Male genitalia with uncus short, hood-shaped, often bluntly 

 pointed; gnathos with large, soft, pillowlike, spiny base terminating 

 in slightly curved, tongue-shaped, sclerotized hook, sometimes 

 3-forked. Upper arms of harpes long, slender, normally bent for- 

 ward; lower branches of harpes shorter, hairy at tip. Aedeagus 

 nearly straight, somewhat enlarged at base, with entrance hole for 

 penis lateral. Vinculum strong, with broad, flattened, anterior process. 

 Eighth segment large, dorsal half largest and normally with two 

 thin hair tufts from near base. 



Female genitalia with upper part of ductus more or less sclerotized ; 

 posterior apophyses stout, pointed, fused with a strongly sclerotized, 

 large genital plate; bursa large, oblong; signum a single, curved, 

 sharply pointed, sometimes slightly dentate thorn with bulbous base 

 extending outside the wall of bursa. 



