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head and cervical shield; in a slight web on under side of a leaf; skeletonizing 

 the leaf. Moth Hying in late June and July and again in September. 



Northern New Jersey and District of Columbia to Kansas and Texas. 



A. anarsiella Chambers, an immaculate, powdery, steel gray species without any 

 definite markings, probably occurs in the northeast; its larva feeds on Ceanothus. 



14. G. albisparsella Chambers. Brush on palpus long, ragged, but not distinctly 

 divided. Moth dark gray-brown, the head a little paler and somewhat iridescent. 

 Palpi and antennae dark brown. Fore wing with small pale spots at middle and 

 end of cell, and an indistinct, sometimes broken, whitish fascia beyond. 15 mm. 

 (platanella Chambers). 



Caterpillar on Platanus, in a roll made of the down on the under side of the leaf. 

 Western Pennsylvania; Kentucky. New York: Ithaca. 



G. fluvialella has been determined as the same as this species but it appears quite 

 distinct. 



15. G. inquilinella Busck. Palpus with second segment white, dusted with black; 

 third, blackish fuscous, somewhat dusted with white. Antennae blue-black, with 

 white dots on segments below. Head dark gray, with black-tipped vestiture. Face 

 light steel gray; thorax blackish fuscous. Fore wing whitish, heavily dusted and 

 suffused with blackish fuscous, appearing dark gray. Discal dots obscure, normal, 

 black. Fringe light gray. Hind wing wider than fore wing, light shining fuscous 

 with paler and yellower fringe; with R and M t short-stalked and M, and Ct^ 

 connate. 1415 mm. 



Larva inquiline in brassicoides gall on Salix; moth in the spring. 

 Karner, New York. 



16. G. unctulella Zeller. Evenly fuscous, including thorax. Orbicular and reni- 

 form blackish, not prominent; the other dots very faint; a row of black basal 

 scales in fringe. Head concolorous. Second segment of palpus deep black, with- 

 out a strong tuft. 15-18 mm. 



Caterpillar webbing leaves of locust (Robinia), sometimes in injurious num- 

 bers. Gray; dorsum finely striped with dull red; head and cervical dull yellow; 

 cocoon between two or three leaves; pupa chestnut brown, very broad and flat. 



North Carolina; Colorado; Texas; Arizona; and probably more generally 

 distributed. 



17. G. lynceella Zeller. White, dusted with blackish; with parallel oblique black- 

 ish shades; 1, along base of inner margin, 2, usually obscure, from near base of 

 costa to inner margin, closely parallel to 1; 3, across middle of wing, strong; 

 4, more or less obscure, half way across .wing two-thirds way out, then zigzag to 

 inner margin. A chevron of black dusting over apex. Fringe pale, slightly dark 

 dusted; head, thorax, and palpi powdery, nearly concolorous. 15 mm. 



May. 



Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio. 



18 G. bicostomaculella Chambers. Ground dark gray with a purple luster, formed 

 of heavy black dusting on a pale blue-gray ground. Palpus with second and third 

 segments dark, powdery, and with a few pale scales, leaving two darker bands on 

 second segment. Head, whitish; a few dark scales on face and many on vertex; 

 antennae dark. Thorax gray, evenly powdery, with only the usual basal hair on 

 metathorax yellow. Fore wing with small, fugitive, white tufts, with some yellow 

 scales, especially near the tufts. Most distinct marks of fore wing black spots 

 near middle and at end of cell, a bar from the first to the costa, with a spot in 

 the fold below it, and a pale postmedial fascia, all formed of the powdering and 

 evanescent under a lens. Hind wing with R and M, stalked, M, hardly connate with 

 Cuy, male with a strong hair pencil near inner margin. 14 mm. (Adrasteia 

 quercifoliella Chambers. ) 



Caterpillar pale yellowish ; head and thorax dark brown, with shining cervical 

 shield; in a web on either side of leaves of black oak; skeletonizing the leaf around 

 its web. 



