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tylus, Fitch (Nox. Ins. New York, Rep. 1 & 2, 

 pp. 143, 144); but from his description it seems 

 possible that if it is not an Oxyptilus it may belong 

 to the genus, and perhaps to the species, here 

 mentioned. 



OXYPTILUS, Zeller. 



Oxyptilus periscelidactylus. 



(PLATE II. FIG. 5.) 



Pterophorus periscelidactylus, Pitch, Nox. Ins. N. Y. Rep. 1 & 2, 



pp. 139, 143 ; Riley, Rep. Ins. Miss. i. pp. 137, 138, pi. xi. 



figs. 15, 16, and iii. pp. 65-68 ; Pitch, Am. Ent. ii. pp. 234, 235. 

 Oxyptilus periscelidactylus, Zell. Stet. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 178 ; Yerh. 



z.-b. Wien, xxiii. p. 319 ; Saunders, Can. Ent. v. pp. 99, 100 ; 



Packard, Guide Stud. Ins. pp. 356, 357, pi. viii. fig. 23, a, 6. 



This species has not, so far as I am aware, been 

 met with in California or Oregon. I have merely 

 caused it to be figured here for convenient compa- 

 rison with some of its allies, from which it differs 

 chiefly in its paler colouring and in the wider and 

 more conspicuous dark band on the third lobe of 

 the hind wings. The localities from which it has 

 been hitherto recorded are New York, Missouri, and 

 Texas. 



The larva feeds on the vine. 



