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Male genitalia with uncus much reduced, narrow, pointed. 

 Gnathos a strongly chitinized pointed arch, scobinate (set with long 

 spines) beneath and supporting a very thinly chitinized, flattened 

 subanal plate. Aedoeagus produced at apex into a long, narrow 

 introvertable chitinized ribbon bearing at its apex a short stout 

 spine. 



Female genitalia with signum a single, weak scobinate patch. 

 Ductus bursae swollen and strongly chitinized for over one-third 

 its length from genital opening. 



A monotypic genus closely related to Aphania. 



BADEBECIA URTICANA (Hubner) 



(Fi.us. 43, 250, 391) 



Torlrix urticana Hurxer, Schmet. Eur. Tort.. ISOO, fig. 65. 



Sericoris campestrana Zellek, Verli. Zo<;l.-bot. Ges. Wieu, vol. 25, 1875, 



p. 282. 

 Olethreutes urticana STAUDiNGEai and Rebel, Cat. Lepid., vol. 2, no. 1921, 



1901.— Fern ALD, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5061, 1903. 

 Olethreutes campestrana Fernald, in Dj'ar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 



5066, 1903.— Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, 1904, p. 924.— 



Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 452. 

 Argyroploce utricana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 6842, 1917. — Pierce and Metcaxfe, Genitalia Brit. Tort., 



1922, p. 49, pi. 16. 

 Argyroploce campestrana B.vrnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer., no. 6864, 1917. 



The name urticana Hiibner has b en a long time in our lists; but 

 most of the specimens that have been referred to it are anything 

 but that species. What Kearfott and others usually had so named 

 Avas Olethreutes deprecatoria Heinrich. The true urticana was con- 

 fused with puncticostana, glaciana (dealhana), and cespitana (in- 

 sti'utana) and when correctly determined only appeared under 

 campestrana Zeller. Strange to say the synonymy of the latter was 

 not suspected. The European series that I have seen were also 

 mixed indiscriminat ly with unibrosana Freyer. The confusion is 

 excusable; because the different species are all variable and at the 

 same time very similar in superficial appearance. They can only 

 be properly separated by the genitalia which fortunately are dis- 

 tinctive for each of them. 



Male and female figured from specimens in National Collection 

 from Clear Creek, Colo, (male), and Europe (female). 



Distribution. — Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, 

 North Dakota, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, Oregon, Washington, 

 British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec. 



Alar expanse. — 15-19 mm. 



