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Hindwings and cilia pale grayish ocherous in the male, more ocherous in the 

 female. Abdomen above, gray in the male, ocherous in the female, whitish 

 beneath. Legs and tarsi whitish gray, except the first pair, which are fuscous 

 on their anterior edges. 



Ohio, Kentucky (Chambers), Texas (Boll). Chambers records 

 it on Quercu.s nigra L. ; Boll bred it from Quercus maerocarpa 

 Michx. in Texas. I have bred it at Cincin- 

 nati on Quercus maerocarpa and Quercus 

 platanoides. The rather small tentiform 

 mine may be placed either at the edge of 

 the leaf or between two veins, the loosened 

 epidermis being thrown into numerous longi- 

 Mine of L. aibanoteiia. tudina ] wr j n kles. The pupa is enclosed in 



in a rather large semi-transparent ovoid silken cocoon. 



The type of Chambers' aibanoteiia at Cambridge consists of abdo- 

 men and hind wings only, which are pale grayish ocherous. His 

 description of the species was made from a rubbed specimen, but 

 agrees with that of subaureola in all details, with the exception of 

 " basal fourth of the costa white." As Chambers' type was a 

 female, and in the female the costal portion of the wings toward the 

 base is much paler, this error in the description was probably due 

 to the condition of his specimen. 



Lithocolletis insignis Walsingham. 



Plate XXI, Fig. 10. 



Lithocolletis insignis Walsingham, Ins. Life, ii, 117, 1889. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6255. 



"Antennae yellowish, unspotted. Palpi white. Face white, frontal tuft white, 

 with a few saffron scales. Thorax white. 



" Forewings pale saffron, with a rather golden tinge; a broad white basal 

 streak on the upper half of the wing, running parallel to the costal margin for 

 one-third the wing length, thence deflexed and confluent with the middle of the 

 upper edge of the first very broad white dorsal streak. The basal streak is some- 

 times extended at the base across the fold reaching to the dorsal margin, thus 

 leaving between itself and the first dorsal streak a small curved oblique saffron 

 streak; sometimes it is not thus projected across the fold, but upon the dorsal 

 margin beneath it is found a separate short dorso-basal white dash. Above and 

 slightly beyond the point at which the broad basal streak is deflexed there is a 

 very oblique costal streak, somewhat triangular, with its apex reaching nearly 

 to the apex of the much larger first dorsal streak below it; beyond this the sec- 

 ond streak, situated just beyond the middle of the costal margin, is of about the 

 same size, also triangular, a little less oblique, and corresponding with a wider 

 and more conspicuous white dorsal patch opposite to it. The third and fourth 



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