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Ptcrophorus nehulaedactylus Fitch, Trans. N. Y, Agr. Soc. XIV, 849, 1854. 



Id., 1st Rep. Ent. N. Y. 145, 1854, 



Morris, Cat. Lep. N. A. 54, 1860. 



Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. M. XXX, 940, 1864. 

 Platyptilus bertrami Roessler, Wien. Ent. Mon. VIII, 54, 1864. 



Walsingham, Pter. Cal. Ore. 3, pi. I, f. 3, 1880. 



Dimmock, Psyche III, 403, 1882. 

 Playptilus bischoffi Zeller, Stett. ent. Zeit. XXVIII, 333, 1867. 

 Pterophorus cervinidactylus Packard, Ann. Lye. N. Y. X, 266, 1873. 

 Platyptilus adustus Walsingham, Pter. Cal. Ore, 5, pi. I, f. 4, 1880. 

 Pkityptilia bischoffi Murtfeldt, Am. Ent. Ill, 235, 1880. 

 Pterophorus bertrami Porritt, Ent. Mo. Mag. XXII, 103, 1885. 

 tPlatyptilia adusta Femald, Smith's List Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 



Id., Pter. N. A. 32, pi. V, ff. 7, 8, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52, U. S. N. M. 443, 1902. 



Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 12, 1910. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 16, 1913. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 150, 1917. 

 fPlalyptilia ochrodactyhi Femald (not Hbn.) Smith's List Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 

 Platyptilia bertrami Barrett, Ent. Mo. Mag. XVIII, 177, 1882. 



Meyrick, Handbook 434, 1895. 



Hofmann, Deutsch. Pter. 64, 79, 1895 (biol). 



Tint, Pter, Brit. 31, 1896. 

 tPlatyptilia marginidactyla Fcrnald. Pter. N. A. 34, pi. IX. ff. 4, 5, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 444, 1902. 



Id., Smith's List Lep. N. A., Rev. Ed. 99, 1903. 



Winn, List Ins, Que. 85, 1912. 



Britton, Ins. Conn. 103, 1920. 

 Platyptilia pallidactyla Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 12, 1910. 



id., Wagner's Lep. Cat, pars 17, 15, 1913. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 150, 1917, 

 Head and body yellowish white to tawny, abdomen with dorsal and ventral 

 brown stripe. Antennae brown spotted above. Frontal tuft about as long 

 as head, sharply pointed. Palpi long, slender, porrect, noticeably .surpassing 

 tuft. Legs white with brown shadings on tibiae, and a trace on tarsi. 



Primaries with nebulous bright brown and whitish markings. Cleft pre- 

 ceded by two brown dots. Pale areas a blotch in cell, preceded by a brown 

 dot, one near inner margin about one third from base, and a broader area 

 below base of cleft. Lobes paler brown, crossed by a pale line outwardly and 

 with a pale area on costa above base of cleft, before which costa is narrowly 

 dark brown, dotted with white. All brown areas slightly irrorate with white. 

 Apex of first lobe produced, acute. Secondaries brown. Fringes of inner 

 margin of third lobe with pale bases and usually with a faint cluster of slender 

 dark scales just beyond middle. Expanse 21-26 mm. 



Male genitalia similar to those of albicans but with broader valves 

 and without the long processes on the juxta. 



