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tinct and, with the white dorsal marks, form an obscure pale fascia 

 which defines a dark basal patch; the dark postmedian area is also 

 defined as a rather indistinct fascia; and the apical pair of white 

 costal geminations are further removed from the others than in 

 multinineana. 



Palpus and face grayish fuscous, slightly dusfed with whitish. 

 Head and thorax fuscous gi"ay; tegula shading to white at tip. 

 Fore wing fuscous gray; four narrow, rather long, white geminate 

 marks on middle of dorsum, with a few shorter, fainter white mark- 

 ings anterior to them on dorsal margin; costa with five pairs of 

 white dashes, two pair before middle, two beyond, and one near 

 apex ; ocelloid patch consisting of two vertical leaden bars inclosing 

 two faint, longitudinal black lines; above, a third faint black streak; 

 termen edged with black with a white spot below apex and two 

 or three, more or less fused, white spots at tornus; cilia leaden fus- 

 cous. Hind wing white toward base, smoky fuscous toward apex; 

 cilia white with a dark basal band; veins 3 and 4 connate or very 

 short stalked. 



Male genitalia of type figured; aedoeagus stout, bottle necked 

 toward apex; cornuti, eight short stout fixed spines arranged in a 

 row. 



Alar expanse. — 10-13 mm. 



Type.— C^^t. No. 28019, U.S.N.M. 



Paratype. — In c^oUection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Aweme, Manitoba. 



Described from male type from Aweme, Manitoba ("25-V-05," 

 Criddle), and one male paratype from Colfax, Placer County, Calif. 

 ("VII," A. H. Vachell). 



13. LASPEYKESIA ALBIMACULANA (Fernald) 



(Fig. 147) 



Grapholitha albimaculana Fernald, Can. But., vol. 11, 1879, p. 157. 

 Enarmonia alhimaculana Fernald, in Dyar List. N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5273, 



1903. 

 Enarmonia articulatana Kearfott, Journ. New York Bnt. Soc, A'ol. 16, 



1908, p. 177. 

 Laspeyresia albimaculana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer., no. 7224, 1917. — Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. 



Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 395. 

 Laspeyresia articulatana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer., no. 7251, 1917. 



An easily recognized species. Fore wing gray with a round, undi- 

 vided shining white spot on mid dorsum and a conspicuous sharply 

 contrasted black spot on middle of costa. Hind wing with veins 

 3 and 4 short stalked or connate. 



