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Description. — Frons brown; labial palpi with basal segments 

 white, second and third segments brown on outer sides, white ventrally 

 and on inner sides; maxillary palpi reaching frons, brown; antennae 

 brown, male subserrate; occiput laterally, patagia, and tegulae brown, 

 vertex and occiput light brown dorsally. 



Forewings with ground white anterior to cubitus, brown posterior 

 to cell; cell sprinkled with brown, with orange red anterior to cell; 

 transverse anterior and posterior bands brown; ground brown on 

 underside, bands darker; with 11 veins; R2 stalked with R3+4; M2+3 

 stalked. Hindwings light brown; 7 veins; Sc and Rs stalked; M3 

 stalked with Cui. 



Male genitalia with gnathos bearing apical digitate projection. 

 Juxta U-shaped. Valvae with costa sparsely setose, terminating in 

 sharp projecting tooth; sacculus densely pubescent. Aedeagus with 

 vesica bearing a single serrate cornutus. 



Female genitalia with ovipositor tip moderately setose, caudal 

 margin with numerous fine setae, sparsely setose laterally. Apophyses 

 curved at base, posterior with base pointed and slightly flattened; 

 anterior with base thickened. 



Type. — In the British Museum (Natural History). 



Type data. — Lectotype female, hereby designated, "667; U.S.A.; 

 n, gen. R. longipalpella Rag"; genitaha slide No. 707, J. Shaffer, 

 Jan. 4, 1967. The specimen is glued together between the meso- and 

 metathorax. Type data given with the original description consists of: 

 "9 22 mill." Ragonot (1901) in a presumed reference to the type 

 reports: "Amerique boreale, 11 octobre. Une 9. Mus brit." 



Specimens examined. — 2cf, 2 9. 



Distribution (Map 8). — Recorded from North Carolina and 

 Virginia. 



UNITED STATES: North Carolina, Polk Co., Tryon, 1 9 , no date (Fiske), 

 [USNM]; Wake Co., Raleigh, 1 9 , "M. Aug. 09," [USNM]. 



Virginia: Arlington Co., Arlington, 1 cT, Aug. 28, 1951 (J. G. Fran demon t), 

 [USNM]. 



Locality unknown: IcT, no date, Sweadner collection [CM]. 



Discussion. — Kimball reports the species from Siesta Key, Fla., 

 May 13, 1946, but I have not seen the specimen. 



Peoria bipartitella Ragonot 



Figures 13, 71, 106, 145 



Peoria bipartitella Ragonot, 1887, p. 19; 1889, p. 117. — Hulst, 1890, p. 214. — 

 Smith, 1891, p. 85. — Ragonot, 1901, p. 386. — Hulst, 1902, p. 439. — 

 Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, p. 149. — McDunnough, 1939, p. 36. — 

 KimbaU, 1965, p. 251. 



