KORTH AMERICAISr LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTHSTAE 127 

 1. PHAECASIOPHORA CONFIXANA (Walker) 

 (Figs. IG, 61, 233, 394) 



Sciaphila confixana Walker, Cat. Lepitl. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 2S, 1863, 



p. 340. 

 Sciaphila? perdtictana Wai.ker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 1863, 



p. 341. 

 Sericoris mutahiJana Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 5, 1865, 



p. 135. 

 Phaecasiophora mutabilana Geote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1873, 



p. 90. 

 Phaecasiophora confixana Walsingham, Illus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., 



vol. 4, 1879, p. 36. — Feenald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5077, 



1903. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 



6877, 1917.— Forbes, aiemoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, 



p. 459. 



This and the following {niveiguttana) are very similar in pattern 

 and appearance. Each has a white dot in cell on outer margin of 

 median band, the median band excavate behind, and the subapical 

 l)ar sending a spur from middle to termen. Their genitalia are very 

 similar. Those of confixana (male) have the harpes slightly the 

 broader. 



Male and female genitalia figured from specimens in National Col- 

 lection from Plummer Island, Md., and Falls Church, Va. (August 

 Busck, May). 



Distribution. — New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary- 

 land, Virginia, District of Columbia, Texas. 



Alar expanse. — 17-20 mm. 



Types. — In British Museum {confixana.^ ferductana) ; Academy 

 Natural Science {?nutahilana) . 



Type localities. — "North America" {confixana perductana) ; Vir- 

 ginia (mutaMIana). 



2. PHAECASIOPHORA NIVEIGUTTANA Grote 

 (Figs. 231, 395) 



Phaecasiophora ? niveiguttana Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 



1873, p. 91. — Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, 



p. 459. 

 Olethreutes niveiguttana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 



5075, 1903.— Kearfott, Ins. New Jersey, 1910, p. 539. 

 Argyroploce niveiguttana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer., no. 6873, 1917. 



This species has the hind tibia of the male much less tufted with 

 scales than confixana and for this reason had been removed from 

 PhaecasiopKora where Grote originall}^ placed it. The genitalia 



