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rather small and bent dorsal streak, also placed very obliquely. It does not 

 attain tbe fold, and ends at some distance from tbe short. spur of the costal 

 streak. In the apical half of the wing there are three more small costal streaks, 

 dark margined toward the base. On the dorsum there is a considerable sized 

 streak of the shape of an equilateral triangle, whose apex, covered with black 

 scales, projects between the second and third costal streaks. There are a few 

 white scales in the apical portion of the wing. The cilia at the apex of the wing 

 are shining and of the wing color, with a blackish basal line. Toward the hind 

 angle they become yellowish gray. 



Hindwings light gray. Cilia lighter. The underside of the forewings is 

 brownish gray. 



The mines, which produced the specimens, from which Frey and 

 Boll described the species, were found by Boll in eastern Texas on 

 the underside of leaves of Quercus rubra L. They are roundish, 

 small and slightly wrinkled. 



No exact expanse is given, but the statement is made that the 

 species is small. 



l.illnM o!I< I is scudderella Frey and Boll. 



Plate XXII, Fig. 2. 



Lithocottetis scudderella Frey and Boll, Stett. ent. Zeit., xxxiv, 212, 1873. Cham- 

 bers, Cin. Quart. Jn. Sci., ii, 230, 1875. Bull. Geol. Surv. Terr., iv, 

 156, 1878. Can. Ent., xi, 72, 1879; vii, 126, 1875. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., 1902, No. 6278. 



Of medium size; however, several specimens are considerably smaller; rather 

 broad-winged. The ground color of the head, thorax and forewings is a peculiar 

 light yellowish brown. This color is similar to that of a flown specimen of L. 

 connexella Z. The forewings are finely scaled. Head and palpi brownish white. 

 Antennae brownish white, annulate with darker. The legs are brownish white, 

 the tibige of the first pair are striped with black. Thorax concolorous with the 

 wings, with a median whitish line. Patagia whitish. Abdomen gray, lighter at 

 the tip. 



The markings of the forewings are somewhat indistinct, but are characteristic 

 because of the great accumulation of black scales in the region of the fold. They 

 are as follows: there is a rather straight basal streak ending at one-third tbe 

 wing length, where it is slightly dilated. It is margined with blackish around 

 the apex. The first pair of streaks are placed very obliquely. Of these, the 

 costal is the smaller and is triangular. The dorsal is of very peculiar form, in 

 that it is strongly constricted on the fold. Both are black margined internally. 

 Usually the extent of the black scales on the inner edge of the dorsal streak is 

 so greatly increased as to form a considerable sized black spot, which extends to 

 the apex of the basal streak. (Less frequently these black scales are almost 

 lacking). The next pair of streaks are at the middle of the wing length, and are 

 also inwardly black margined. (These black scales are also increased so as to 

 form a spot.) The costal streak is narrow, almost perpendicular; the dorsal 

 forms a broader triangle, placed just before the tornus. Toward the apex are 



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