A REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN MOTHS OF THE GENUS 
DEPRESSARIA HAWORTH, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 
NEW SPECIES. 
By August Busck, 
U. S. Department of Agricxdture. 
The genus Defressaria was established in the third volume of 
Ha worth's Lepidoptera Britannica.^ Since then numerous species 
have been discovered from nearly all parts of the world, though 
principally in the northern temperate regions and especially in 
Europe. 
In America, Brackenridge Clemens described four species dur- 
ing the years 1860 to 1864, namel}^ lecontella^ atrodorsella^ 'pulm'pen- 
nella and cinereocostella. These are true Deiwessarise and easily rec- 
ognized to-day. 
Francis Walker, in his Catalogue of the Insects in the British 
Museum, described three species from America under the generic 
name Depremaria^ namely, confertella^ clausella^^ and georgiella^^ of 
which, as Lord Walsingham has shown ^ only clauseUa properly 
belongs to this genus and that name falls as a synonym of Clemens's 
chmreocostella . 
In the Canadian Entomologist (1869) C. J. S. Bethune described 
and gave the life history of Dejrressai'ia ontariella. This was soon 
suspected \>j J. Angus to be the European heracliana^ which was thus 
included in the American fauna. This was later proven by Zeller's 
positive determination. 
In 1870 C. T. Robinson*^ redescribed and figured Clemens's four spe- 
cies and added a new one, Depressaria grotella. 
In the same year A. S. Packard, in his Guide, described and figured 
Depressaria TobinieUa., Riving its life history. 
Zeller, in his Beitrage zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Nacht- 
falter (1873), recognized and redescribed atrodm'sella and heradiana^ 
1 Page 505 (1812) . * Vol. XXXV, p. 1827. 
■■'Vol. XXIX, p. 563. sproc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 312. 
» Vol. XXIX, p. 564. « Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., IX, p. 156. 
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