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LANTHAPHE, Clem. 



(Derivation unknown to me). 



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

 Palpi of /^ ionsT, slender, smooth, somewhat recurved, end member small. Palpi 

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

 bilobed, pencil tufted, the lobes large, heavy, the pencilling long, reaching above 

 head. Antennae very slightly pubescent, process short, long scaled. P'ore wings 

 strongly arched along costa. Along costa beneath in ^^ 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 than tarsus, 

 epiphysis short, small. Hind tibiK with 2 pairs of spurs, the upper pair just below 

 middle. Venation — Fore wings (5'' II veins ; i bent, 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 9 &temn;ed, 10 and 12 sepaiate, but closely pushed 

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

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

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

 tuits laterally on penultunate and antipenultimate segments. 



L. platanella, Clem. 



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

 {Tetralophd), Geo!. Surv. Terr. Bull IV, 691, 1878. Hulst, 

 {Lanthaphe), 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, witW the costa touched with brownish-red, and a patch of the same 

 hue in the female, near the base of the inner margin containing a tuft 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 l)road white band, obsolete toward the costa, 

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

 line is irregular and whitish, dark-margined internally. Tlie hinder margin of the 

 wing is touched with blackish brown. Hind wings pale brown, somewhar darker 

 toward the hinder margin. The larva is tortricilorm 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 l:)rown dorsal line on each side of the vascular. It makes a web on the under sur- 

 face of the leaf of Sycamore {Platamis occiiL-nta/is), 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 

 larvae remain m 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 i\Ir. 

 Grote was aware of the variation of the sexes in venation. 



SALUDA, Hulst. 

 [Saluda, a tribe of Indians of the Southern States). 



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

 I'alpi 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 ; ^ 



