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2. Palpus with a small, triangular tuft on second segment. 



3. Ground all pale luteous and white, with very fine, black scale-tips. 



31. paradosca. 

 3. Ground darker, with considerable brown or gray. 



4. Fore and middle tibia; and under side of wings red-brown, tarsi whitish. 



32. quercinigrella. 



4. Fore and middle legs powdery gray, with narrow white bands; under- 

 side gray. 



5. Ground dominantly white, with complete, blackish fasciae; scales dark- 

 tipped 29. cuculipennella. 



5. White ground reduced to scattered spots, the fore wing almost wholly 

 powdery gray and brown; fascite broken or obscure; scales white- 

 tipped 30. fraxiiiella. 



2. Palpus smoothly scaled or nearly so. 



3. Keddish, with costal third suffused with yellow. 



4. Darker ground tan color 9. flareUa. 



4. Darker ground suffused with crimson. 



f>. Larger; darker; costal edge with two larger dark dots, hind tarsi con- 

 trastingly darkened at tips of joints 4. sassafrasella. 



5. Smaller; paler; several black points on costa; hind tarsi evenly silver 



gray 10. violaeella. 



3. Reddish, with costal edge very narrowly, or not at all, yellow. 



G. elongella. 

 3. Xot reddish; gray or brown. 



4. Middle half of costal edge narrowly pale with dark dots. 



5. Pale edge sharply defined below; ground darker and richer brown. 



2. aceriella, 3. juglandiella. 



5. Pale edge shading into the fuscous ground 5. rhoifoliella. 



5. Fuscous gray, more or less violet-iridescent, the costal third faintly 



paler and costal edge striate at middle 8. minimella. 



4. With traces of the two golden triangles; costal edge wdth dark dots 



23. ostryceella. 



4. Costal edge concolorous, or nearly so. 

 5. Dark brown, spotted with yellow-brown. 



I). Spots bright ochre and conspicuous, two on costa and two or three 



on fold 7. flavimaculella. 



G. Spots fine, irregular, dull, and scattered C. elongella. 



5. Dark brown, powdered on a yellow ground, less heavily on costa. 



(5. elongella. 

 5. Dark brown, powdered on a yellow ground; base darker. 



28. atomosella. 

 5. Dusted with blackish on a white ground, more or less heavily. 



G. elongella. 

 5. Blackish without noticeable markings 1. strictella. 



Synopsis l>y foods 



Willow and poplar (moths with a single golden triangle) : 



Light red 20. stigmatella. 



Dark purple 19. purpuriella. 



Myrica : 



Rusty, with yellower costa 9. flavella. 



Walnut: 



A large, golden, costal patch 25. llaiuleUa, 20. juglandivorella. 



A aeries of yellow costal points 3. juglandiella 



