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Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 



Vol. VII APRIL-JUNE, 1919 Nos. 4-6 



A NEW OLETHREUTID FROM NEW YORK 



{Lepldopicra) 

 By carl HEINRICH 



Olethreutes approximana, new species. 



Palpi creamy ochreons ; terminal joint and end of second 

 joint smoky- fuscous. Face smoky fuscous. Head tuft and 

 thorax dull ochreous shading to smoky fuscous with a thin 

 irregular line of black scales across thorax and a few black 

 scales on forward extremities of patagia. Ground color of 

 forewing brownish ochreous, heavily overlaid and nearly ob- 

 scured by velvety black scales, especially dense along the costa 

 and interrupted by ill-defined cross marking of metallic blue ; 

 and interrupted by ill-defined cross markings of metallic blue ; 

 scales ; from basal third of costa two narrow, irregular ill- 

 defined streaks of similar scales extending across wing to basal 

 fourth of dorsum ; a similar outwardly angulated and even less 

 distinct fascia beyond middle ; at tornus and margining the 

 lower half of termen a broader, more distinct patch of metallic 

 blue, somewhat broken by black scales ; cilia black, broken by 

 white or whitish ochreous streaks at the extremities of veins 

 Ic, 2, 3, 6, and 7, the last two especially noticeable. Hind 

 wings smoky fuscous, darker at apex and along termen ; cilia 

 very pale, almost white, with a dark subbasal band. Outer 

 sides of legs black or blackish fuscous banded by pale och- 

 reous ; inner sides of legs, anal tuft and under surface of 

 abdomen pale ochreous. Male genitalia of type figured on 

 Plate I. Alar expanse, 12-13 mm. 



Habitat: Rensselaer, N. Y. (N. Y. State collection). 



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