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LANTHAPHE, Clem. 

 (r)L'ri\'atioii unkiKiwn to me). 



Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., June, i860, 207. 

 Palpi of rj ^on^r, slendei-, smootii, somewhat recurved, end member small. Palpi 

 of O long, slender, end member long, conical, '/„ second member. Maxillary palpi 

 bilobed, ])encil tufted, the lobes large, heavy, the pencilling long, reaching above 

 head. Antennre very slightly pubescent, process short, long scaled. Fore wings 

 .strongly arched along costa. Along costa beneath in (j^ a fold of transverse scales with 

 vitreous spot partially covered beneath, this spot also showing on the upper surface. 

 Legs, tarsi all spinulated, of fore legs at tip only. Fore tibia longer ihan tarsus, 

 epiphysis short, small. Hind tibii^ with 2 pairs of spurs, the upper pair iu>t below 

 middle. Venation — Fore wings q'^ ii veins : i lient, notched or furcate, 2 and 3 

 much bent, 3 and 4 separate from end of broad and swollen post median, 6 long 

 waved in discal space, 7. 8 and g stemmed, 10 and 12 separate, but closely pushed 

 together, 9 wanting. Fore wings O 12 veins: 4 and 5 short stemmed, 6 on a shoit 

 stem with 7, 8 and 9 ; 10, 11 and separate, i bent and notched. Hind wings, (^^ 9' 

 3 separate, 4 and 5 stemmed, 7 and 8 stemmed, 6 separate. Abdomen with short 

 tults laterally on penultunate and antipenultimate segments. 



L. platanella, Clem. 



Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. June, i860, 207. Grote. 

 {Tetralopha), Geol. Surv. Terr. Bull". IV, 691, 1878. Hulst. 

 [Lanf/iaphe), Ento. Am., IV, 114, 1887. 

 Labial palpi pale brownish-red, touched in front -with pale gray. Head and 

 thora.x brownish-red, the latter varied with grayish and dark fuscous. Fore wings 

 grayish-fuscous, with the costa touched with brownish-red, and a patch of the same 

 hue in the female, near the base of tlie inner margin containing a tufi of raised scales; 

 in the male, blackish-brown, touched with brownish -red. The base of the wing is 

 whitish. In the middle of the wing is a broad white band, obsolete toward the costa, 

 with two straight blackish-brown lines internally with the same hue. The subterminal 

 line is in-egular and whitish, dark-margined internally. The hinder margui of the 

 wing is touched with blackish brown. Hind wings pale brown, somew har darkei' 

 toward the hinder margin. The larva is tortriciloi ni in appearance. Head pale 

 brown, mottled with whitish. Body with isolated hairs, pale green, with a dark 

 brown dorsal line and a fainter stigmatal line of the same hue, or pale reddish, with 

 a brown dorsal line on each side of the vascular. It makes a web on the under sur- 

 face of the leaf of Sycamore {Platamis occidentaUs), drawing it together and living 

 within a silken tube. The cocoon is woven on the surface of the ground, in form of 

 a flattened oval, consisting of brown silk covered exteriorly with grains of earth. The 

 larv;e remain ni it unchanged during the winter. It may be taken in July, and enters 

 the pupa state during the latter part of August, to appear as an imago in May or 

 June. Expands, 20 to 25 mm. 



Eastern U. S. This is Clemens' description. Neither he nor INIr. 

 Grote was aware of the variation of the se.xes in venation. 



SALUDA, Hulst. 

 (Sa/iida, a tribe of Lxlians of the Southern States). 



Hulst, Ento. Am., IV, 113, 1888. 



Palpi of rj' heavily scaled, recurved over head, reaching back of collar, second 

 member very long, end member very short in front of end of second member ; f 



