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Type locality: Pennsylvania {B. unipunctella) , Texas (C. lithosina, 

 H. tortricella) . 



Food plant: Quercus sp. In the USNM collection there is one 

 specimen that has been reared from chestnut. 



Distribution: Florida: Fort Myers (Apdl); Cocoanut Grove; St. 

 Petersburg (Oct.) ; Enterprise (May) ; Hastings (Sept.) ; Oneco (May) ; 

 Weeki Wachee Springs (May); Sarasota (May). Louisiana: Natchi- 

 toches Parish (Aug.). texas: Kerrville (April, May, June, Aug.); 

 Burnett Co. (Sept., Oct.); Belfrage; Shovel Mt. (July). Arizona: 

 Yavapai Co.; Ft. Grant (July). 



This species is very similar to A. decorosella in both coloration and 

 genitalia; however, the fore wings are stramineous in color, the male 

 genitalia have a much larger and more broadly notched gnathos, the 

 aedeagus is shaped differently, and the female genital opening is in 

 the center of the genital plate rather than on the anterior edge. 



4. Antaeotricha leucillana (Zeller) 



Figures 4, 26; Plate Id; Map 3 



Cryptolechia leucillana Zeller, 1854, Linn. Entom., vol. 9, p. 370. 



Cryptolechia algidella Walker, 1864, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects 



in the collection of the British Museum, vol. 29, p. 710. (New synonymy.) 

 Stenoma leucillana Walsingham, 1889, Insect Life, vol. 2, p. 153. 

 Stenoma algidella Walsingham, 1889, Insect Life, vol. 2, p. 153. — Barnes and 



Busck, 1920, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lep. North America, vol. 4, p. 238. 

 Antaeotricha leucillana Busck, 1934, in Lepidopterorum catalogus, vol. 67, p. 25. 



Alar expanse 15-23 mm. 



Color: Face and palpus white, sprinkled with brown. Legs white; 

 forelegs covered with dark scales. Thorax white dorsally with 

 brownish black tuft posteriorly as in A. schlaegeri but former with 

 brown cilia on apical half. 



Male genitalia: Uncus with broadened, bifid tip; gnathos simple, 

 slender, ending in a kind of beak; harpes as in A. schlaegeri, vinculum 

 complete, anellus with two rounded, lateral lobes; aedeagus large, 

 flaring apically with ventral half extending farther than dorsal and 

 forming a broad lip; cornuti a cluster of many medium-sized spines. 



Female genitalia: Genital plate reduced to simple band; ostium 

 bursae and ductus bursae short, sclerotized; corpus bursae small; 

 signum absent; inception of ductus seminalis near ostium. 



Type: Unknown. 



Type locality: Georgia (C. leucillana), Nova Scotia (C. algidella). 



Food plants: Pyracantha crenulata (Roxb.), Malus sp., Vaccinium 

 corymbosum L., Acer sp. Frost (1931) gives an account of the Hfe 

 history of S. algidella (= A. leucillana). 



Distribution: new Hampshire: Hampton (June, July); White 

 Mts. MASSACHUSETTS: Martha's Vineyard (July), new york: 



