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1. D. velatella Clemens. (Fig. 82.) Head mixed brown and gray; palpi dark 

 outwardly. Fore wing white, dusted with fuscous; with four or five unequal spots 

 along costa and the usual three discals, which are rather large; the apex with 

 additional confused spots. 9 mm. Antennae with outer whorls of scales on each 

 segment nearly complete, but no longer than the inner whorls. Ventral surface 

 with strong pubescence, as long as a segment in male; shorter but of the same 

 character in female. Hind wing with cubitus and Cu 2 running straight across to 

 inner margin, with a quarter of the width of the wing below it. Cu 2 half as long 

 as width of wing. (In the rest of the genus Cu is closely parallel to the inner 

 margin, and the free part of Cu, is very short.) 



July. 



Maryland ; Pennsylvania. 



2. D. argentistrigella Chambers. Rich, iridescent, maroon brown; face and 

 antennae below, silvery white; antennae annulate above. An irregular, silvery 

 fascia before middle, the wing beyond it dusted with white; six costal streaks 

 toward apex, the next to last being the longest, and two dorsal streaks. 12 mm. 

 (Semele Chambers.) 



I have not seen this form. 

 Kentucky. 



3. D. argentinotella Chambers. Similar to D. argentistrigella; the fascia on 

 the fore wing absent, or replaced by a costal patch, which typically reaches the 

 cell. 10-17 mm. (Semele Chambers.) 



The cubit<tls in the hind wing are very short. In Florida and Texas the moth 

 flies in June. 



Western Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas. 



4. D. cristatella Chambers. Face white, sometimes suffused with fuscous ; vertex 

 black; thorax black, with more or less broken silvery or golden basal, antemedial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal bands, defined with raised scales; a heavy tuft beyond 

 the postmedial band on the costa, and a lesser one near the inner margin. Costal 

 fringe dark, dorsal white. 13 mm. 



June. 



In Illinois they have bred what I believe to be this species from fungus. 



Kentucky. 



5. D. obscurella Dietz. Similar to D. cristatella, the silvery markings weaker, 

 and absent at base of costa. 11 mm. 



Probably this is a variety of the last species. I have only seen one type, which 

 was in poor condition. 

 July. 

 Nicholson, Pennsylvania; Kansas. 



6. D. chrysoadspersella Dietz. Deep brown; head orange; vertex darker. Fore 

 wing dusted with silvery gray and sprinkled with golden scales; with irregular 

 silvery fasci* about like*Z>. cristatella, but the fringe heavily barred with white at 

 base. Tufts forming heavy transverse bars at a third and two-thirds way out. 

 8.5 mm. 



Plummer's Island, Maryland. 



7. D. costisignella Clemens. Head white; antennae dull tawny; palpi tawny yel- 

 low. Fore wing tawny; costa marked with about eight pale bars alternating with 

 dark brown and white, the markings extending into the base of the fringe; one 

 small scale tuft at end of cell. 12 mm. 



The moth occurs in damp woods in July. 



New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania. New York: Ithaca (Dietz). 



8. D. fasciella Chambers. Golden bronze; tufts placed on two contrasting dark 

 fasciae, but themselves small, well separated, and easily overlooked; without the 

 brown, black, and white mottling of the last species 12 mm. (Pitys Chambers). 



