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apply to the same species, and, since C. leucillana is the older name, 

 the latter is adopted provisionally here. 



5. Antaeotricha osseella (Walsingham) 



Figures 5, 27; Plate le; Map 4 



Ide osseella Walsingham, 1889, Insect Life, vol. 2, p. 155. 



Brachyloma querciella Busck, 1908, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol 10, p. 111. 



(New synonymy). 

 Stenoma querciella Barnes and Busck, 1920, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lep. North 



America, vol. 4, p. 238. — Forbes, 1923, Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem., vol. 



68, p. 253.— Busck, 1925, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, p. 48. 

 Stenoma osseella Barnes and Busck, 1920, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lep. North America, 



vol. 4, p. 239. 

 Antaeotricha osseella Busck, 1934, in Lepidopterorum catalogus, vol. 67, p. 26. 

 Antaeotricha querciella Busck, 1934, in Lepidopterorum catalogus, vol. 67, p. 27. 



Alar expanse 22-24 mm. 



Color: Face and palpus whitish sprinkled with brown scales. Legs 

 whitish, forelegs dark fuscous anteriorly. Thorax brown dorsaliy. 

 Abdomen ochreous. Forewing brown with strong lustre; with two 

 blacldsh dots at end of cell, anterior one more proximal than posterior 

 one. Hindwing light tan with white cUia. 



Male genitalia: Uncus similar to A. unipunctella, with spatulate 

 tip, but not as arched. Gnathos broadly notched at tip; harpes as 

 in A. schlaegeri; vinculum complete, arching in front ; anellus as in A. 

 unipunctella but larger and notched medially; aedeagus tapering to 

 rounded apex bearing a small apical spine. Cornuti absent. 



Female genitalia: Genital plate wide, short, mth median slot. 

 Ostium bursae large; ductus bursae long, membranous; corpus 

 bm-sae narrow with signum large, dentate; inception of ductus semi- 

 nalis near ostium. 



Type: In the British Museum (Natural History). 



Type locality: California (7. osseella), Montclair, New Jersey 

 (B. querciella). 



Food plant: Quercus alba L., Quercus muehlenbergii Engelm. 



Distribution: new york: Ithaca (July, Aug., Sept.). new jersey: 

 Lakehurst (Aug., Sept.); Bro\vn's Mills (July), north Carolina: 

 Highlands (June, Aug.); Brevard (Aug.). south Carolina: Oconee 

 (Aug., Sept.); GreenvUle; Anderson (June), west Virginia: White 

 Sulphur Springs (July). Maryland: Hyattsville (May, June), dis- 

 trict OF COLUMBIA: Washington (Sept.). Massachusetts: Newton 

 Highlands. Pennsylvania: New Brighton (July, Aug.). Illinois: 

 Decatur (July). Arkansas: Washington Co. (July, Aug.). texas: 

 Burnet Co. Missouri: Columbia. 



This species is similar in size to A. decorosella and A. unipunctella, 

 but the coloration is distinct. The spine on the tip of the aedeagus 



