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I. Body rather slender; palpus of male extending back over middle of thorax 

 or beyon-d ' ; in female short and porrect; antenna, of male as in Pseudana- 

 phora or narrower, and subserrate; fore wing more pointed, that of male 

 being about like that of female arcanella. Eyes naked. (Sapinella Kirby, 

 Eutheca Grote, not Keisenw) . 



1. A. mora Grote. Male blackish; female usually dull ochre yellow, or, rarely, 

 dull brown and obscurely mottled; a dark bar at middle of fold, and a slight 

 dark spot at end of cell. Male (fig. 94) with branches of uncus long, slender, 

 and parallel, not tapering to the bluntly rounded tip; valves also slender and of 

 even width. 25-30 mm. (arcanella of authors). 



The moth flies in October and November. The larva has been bred from birch 

 by Pearsall. The egg is long, narrow, and strongly ridged. 



Concord, Massachusetts to North Carolina, and western Pennsylvania. 



II. Body stout, and, with vestiture, more than one-third as iride as length of 

 fore wing; palpus upturned to just beyond vertex, but not extending back 

 over thorax in male; palpus of female short and porrect; antenna smooth, 

 and, in male, with laminations one-half wider than length of segments; 

 eyes hairy. (Pseudanaphora Walsingham) . 



2. A. arcanellus Clemens. Pattern and colors same as those of A. popeanellus; 

 rough, black, raised striations on fore wing; spatulate vestiture on thorax much 

 coarser than that of A. popeanellus; wing of female rather longer and more pointed 

 than that of A. popeanellus. (Fig. 93.) 25-28 mm. 



The larva and pupa are described under the genus. The larva has been bred 

 on corn. The moth flies in late June and July. 



I have seen the moth from New York, New Jersey, western Pennsylvania, and 

 Illinois. 



III. Male antenna with laminations as long as, or eren longer than, wide; palpus 

 as in Sapinella, or even longer, extending well beyond thorax in male, 

 short in female; wings blunt; vestiture of fine, flattened hair; eyes hairy, 

 the hair short and easily lost in A. tenuis. (Anaphora Clemens). 



3. A. popeanellus Clemens. Brownish luteous or dull reddish brown, rarely more 

 purplish; distinctly paler along fold and inner margin. Thorax often pale, especially 

 in female. Fore wing obscurely and irregularly striate with darker brown; scales 

 not noticeably raised; blackish patches at end of cell and at middle of fold, and, 

 normally, a dark antemedial bar across fold. (Fig. 95.) 25-30 mm. (scardina 

 Zeller, agrotipennella Grote, confusellus Beutenmiiller ) . 



New Jersey to Missouri, Florida, and Texas. 



A. busckella Haimbach, found at Brown's Mills, New Jersey, appears to be a black 

 aberration of this species, with a contrasting, pale inner margin. 



4. A. confusellus Dyar. Markings similar to A. popeanellus. Ground normally 

 mottled with whitish or luteous, but sometimes wholly dark and purplish, as in 

 A. tenuis. Slightly smaller than A. popeanellus, on the average. Male genitalia 

 about as in A. popeanellus, but with the uncus shorter and weaker and the valve 

 markedly broader. 



The moth occurs in July, in the northern part of its range. 

 Plummer's Island, Maryland, to Georgia and Texas. 



5. A. tenuis Walsingham. Nearly uniform purplish, with obscure dark markings; 

 uncus curved over evenly, not angulated, and with more widely separated points 

 than in A. popeanellus; valve spoon-shaped, distinctly narrowed at base, and with 

 small supplementary process. 20-25 mm. (violaceellus Beutenmiiller). 



This is a more southern species than A. popeanellus. It flies in June. 

 Florida; North Carolina; central Illinois; Iowa; and elsewhere. 



6. A. texanellus Chambers. Moth smaller and rather slenderer than A. tenuis, 

 with more or less distinct traces of an oblique shade crossing the apex, as in 



