104 BULLETIN 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



A very common species throughout the United States. Male with 

 yellow hair pjncile on hind tibia. 



Male and female genitalia figured from specimens in National 

 Collection from New Brunswick, N. J. (H. B. Weiss, Oct., 1921, 

 male) and Norfolk, Va. (female). 



Distribution. — Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, 

 Florida, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, California, British Colum- 

 bia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario. 



Alar expatise. — 11-17 mm. 



Types. — In British Museum {hehesa7ia, inexjjertana) ; National 

 Collection {fullerea). 



Type localities. — "North America" {hehesana. inexpertana) \ 

 Missouri? {fullerea). 



Food plants. — Antirrhinum, Gerardia, Iris, Orthocarpus, Pen- 

 stemon, Physostegia, Solidago, Stachys, Tigridia, Verbascum, Ver- 

 bena (larva feeding on seeds). 



6. ENDOTHENIA DAECKEANA (Kearfott) 

 (Fig. 351) 



Olethreutes daeckeana Keakfott, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. vol. 33, 1907, 

 p. 12. — FoBBES, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 4-58. 



Argyroploce daeckeana Babnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 

 Amer., no. 6829, 1917. 



Very similar to hebesarui; but somewhat larger, with fore wing 

 broader and more rounded at apex, and with slightly larger geni- 

 talia. The female genitalia is hardly different from that of hebesana. 

 The male has a yellow hair pencile on the hind tibia and like hebe- 

 sana has the underside of hind wing rough scaled along vein lb. 



Male genitalia figured from paratype in National Collection. 



I have seen only specimens of the type series. Paratypes are in the 

 American and National Museums and the Barnes collection. 



Alar expanse. — 17-19 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Toms River, N. J. 



Food plant. — Sarracenia purpurea (larvae boring in stalks and 

 flowers). 



7. ENDOTHENIA CONDITANA (Walsingham) 

 (Fig. 354) 



Penthina conditana Walsingham, Illus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 



1879, p. 31. 

 Olethreutes conditana Fernald, In Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5037, 



1903. 

 Argyroploce conditana Babnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 6826. 1917. 



