300 



Packard, Guide 356, 1872, 



Saunders, Can. Ent. V, 99, fig. 15, 1873. 



Rogers, Can. Ent. VII, 217, 1875. 

 Oxyptilus periscelidaclylus Zeller, Stett. ent. Zeit. XXXII, 178, 1871. 



Id., Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien XXIII, 319, 1873. 



Walsingham, Pter. Cal. Ore. 25, pi. II, £. 5, 1880. 



Riley, Supp. Mo. Rept. 58, 1881. 



Dimmock, Psyche III, 390, 1882. 



Id., op. cit. 403, 1882. 



Saunders. Can. Ent. XIX, 27, 1887. 



Id., Ins. Inj. Fruits 268, 1889. 



Hy. Edwards, Bull. 35, U. S. N. M. 136, 1889. 



Femald, Smith's List Lep. N. A. 88, 1891. 



Dyar, Psyche VII, 253, 1895. 



Comstock, Manual 238, 1895. 



Smith, Econ. Ent. 318, 1896. 



Truman, Ent. News VIII, 28, 1897. 



Fernald, Pter. N. A. 17, pi. II, ff, 3, 4; pi. V, ff. 1, 2, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 441, 1902. 



Holland. Moth Book 416, fig. 237, 1903. 



Osborn, Jn. Econ. Ent. II, 15, 1909. 



Meyrick. Gen. Ins. C, 7, 1910. 



Winn, List Ins. Que. 85, 1912. 



Meyrick, Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 7, 1913. 



Fracker, Class. Lep. Larvae 95, 1915. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 150, 1917. 



Britton, Ins. Conn. 103, 1920. 

 General color light brown, the head, thorax and abdomen somewhat paler, 

 the last with creamy-white dashes above and mostly whitish below. Antennae 

 white, dark below and with a row of connected dark dots above. Palpi white, 

 light brown at the sides. Legs white, the first two pairs striped with dark 

 brown, their tarsi with brown shading on one side of all but the second joint. 

 Hind pair with brown tufts at bases of spurs and brown annuli on the tarsi. 

 First spurs attached near middle of tibia and reaching to its end. 



Primaries with two white, diagonal, subparallel bands across first lobe, the 

 basal one broader and less regular tiian the outer. These are continued across 

 second feather, where they converge toward inner margin. Enclosed space on 

 both lobes somewhat darker than rest of wing. Cleft preceded by a sHght 

 whitish patch, then by a short transverse brown dash. At two-fifths from base 

 of wing is a whitish spot, more or less vague. Fringes creamy white, slightly 

 darker in cleft, where they contain brown scales. At apex of both lobes and 

 anal angle of first they are marked by dark pencils of hair, and before anal 

 angle of second lobe a broader brown patch preceded at some distance hy two 

 small tufts of dark brown scales and some scattered white scales. First two 

 featlicrs of hind wings dull brown with lighter fringes, the third light brown 

 at base and tip, white between, fringes as on other lobes, but containing a large 



