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emarginate medially, uncus simple. Female genitalia: female not 

 associated with male. Alar expanse : 5-7 mm. 



Holotype: cT, Madera Canyon, 4880 feet, Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., 

 July 17, 1959, R. W. Hodges (RWH slide 2022), Cornell Univ. type 

 3884. 



Paratypes: same locality as type, 7 cf, July 2-30, 1959 (RWH 

 slides 1169, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1994; RWH wing slide 18), 

 CU, USNM. 



The males of A. venafrix may be separated from those of A. ostryae- 

 ella by the attached costal area of the valva. 



Aeaea ostryaeella Chambers 



Figures 26, 45 



Aeaea ostryaeella Chambers, 1874, Canadian Ent., vol. 6, p. 74; 1878, Bull. U.S. 

 Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, pp. 121, 128; 1880, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 199.— Hagen, 1884, Papilio, vol. 4, p. 154.— Fletcher, 

 1929, Mem. Dep. Agric. India, Ent. Ser., vol. 11, p. 6. 



Chrysopeleia ostryaeella, Riley, in Smith, 1891, List of the Lepidoptera of boreal 

 America, p. 108.— Dyar, 1902 [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 540.— 

 Kearfott, in Smith, 1903, Check list of the Lepidoptera of boreal America, p. 

 118. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check list of the Lepidoptera of boreal 

 America, p. 152.— Heinrich, 1920, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, p. 71.— 

 Forbes, 1923, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem., no. 68, p. 329.— 

 McDunnough, 1939, Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 63. 



Chambers' illustration of the venation of this species is quite mis- 

 leading; however, when one considers the size of the moth and the 

 degree of magnification available to him, it is easy to understand how 

 an incorrect interpretation could have been made. A more accurate 

 interpretation is given in figure 12, 



Male genitalia: as m figure 26 (RWH slide 10027), valvae sym- 

 metrical, costa free, anterior margin of vinculum emarginate medially, 

 uncus emarginate. Female genitalia: as in figm*e 45 (RWH slide 

 1162); seventh sternum with two heavUy sclerotized areas starting 

 anteromedially, runnmg posteromedially, free from sternum apically; 

 ostium bursae at center of seventh sternum. Alar expanse: 5-7 mm. 



Food plant: Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch. According to 

 Chambers (1874), the larva mines the leaf between two veins, leaving 

 a row of frass on each side of the mine. 



Holotype: cf , in Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Type locality: Kentucky. 



Specimens examined: Connecticut: Lyme, 2 cf, reared from 

 Ostrya virginiana, emerged June 9, 15, 1916, A. Busck (Carl Heinrich 

 genitalia shde, June 27, 1917), USNM; Illinois: Putnam County, 

 2 cf , June 28, 1957, July 17, 1959, M. O. Glenn (RWH slides 2039 and 

 10027), MOG; Kentucky: no fm-ther locality given, 1 cf , Chambers, 



