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head, and thorax blackish fuscous with a faint sprinkling of dark, 

 sordid ocherous scales. Fore wing with basal two-thirds blackish 

 fuscous; outer margin of this dark patch angulate, extending from 

 costa beyond middle outwardly to lower outer angle of cell and 

 thence inward to mid dorsum; a small round white discal dot at 

 upper outer angle of cell ; a dark angulate subtornal spot with apex 

 touching the apex of the dark basal patch ; area between lower outer 

 margin of basal dark patch and subtornal spot, sordid brownish 

 ocherous, distinguishable as a broad geminate dash ; apical area sor- 

 did brownish ocherous with an irregular, blackish fuscous inwardly 

 curved, subapical band extending from apex to tornus ; costa faintly 

 strigulated with blackish and brownish ocherous; in some speci- 

 mens an obscure pale blotch on costa before middle; cilia dark 

 fuscous with some sprinkling of dull ocherous. Hind wing dark 

 smoky fuscous; cilia but slightly paler with an obscure dark basal 

 band. 



Female genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expaiise. — 21-22 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Paratype. — Cat. No. 28025, U.S.N.M. ; also in collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Everglades, Fla. 



Described from female type and four female paratypes from the 

 type locality, without collector label and dated "Apr. 19-1912 " and 

 "April 8-15." These had been set aside by Kearfott as a new species. 



I have not seen the male and am therefore unable to place the 

 species with absolute certainty; particularly as vein 5 of hind wing 

 is bent at base as in the Olethreutinae. This, however, is probably 

 only a specific aberration. In wing pattern and female genitalia it 

 is quite similar to punctidiscanuin. 



16. Genus ECDYTOLOPHA Zeller 



(Figs. 10, 115) 



Ecdytolopha Zeller, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 25, 1875, p. 266. 

 Genotype. — Ecdytolopha insiticUina Zeller (North America). 



Thorax with posterior tuft. 



Fore wing smooth; termen convex; 12 veins, all separate; 7 to 

 termen; 11 from cell at middle; 10 remote from 9; upper internal 

 vein of cell from between 9 and 10; 3, 4, and 5 remote at termen; 

 2 from cell before % (near middle), straight; no costal fold in 

 male. 



Hind wing with normal pecten on lower median vein; 8 veins; 

 6 and 7 approximate toward base; 3 and 4 connate or ver}'^ short 

 stalked; in male an appressed pocket containing a strong yellow 

 hair pencile at base of vein la. 



Hind tibia of male loose scaled but not appreciably dilated or 

 tufted. 



