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11. G. henshawiella Busck. Whitish, with scattered fuscous -barred scales which 

 gather into a contrasting dark band from base to apex, a third as wide as the 

 wing or more, leaving the costal side of the streak much wider, and suffused and 

 streaked with brown. A couple of black dashes on the upper edge of this band 

 and one in the fold on its lower edge. Irregular, black terminal dots. Head and 

 thorax pale; palpi with four more or less distinct dark bands. 12 mm. 



Eastern specimens are not typical and may represent a new species. Barnes 

 and McDunnough consider this a synonym of G. ochreostrigella. 

 May and June. 

 Hampton, New Hampshire; western Pennsylvania; also South Dakota and west. 



12. G. lavernella Chambers. Fore wing black-powdered on pure white, shaded 

 and noticeably streaked with yellow-brown ; palpus yellowish with two dark rings 

 on third segment. Fore wing mottled with black; a heavy fascia from costa near 

 base obliquely out to fold, where it may enlarge into a patch, and is met by a 

 more or less distinct dark streak from costa near middle to base of fold. The 

 latter often broken, or partly obsolete. Postmedial fascia distinct, defined with 

 dark. 12 mm. (physalivorella Chambers). 



Larva in fruit of Physalis. 



District of Columbia; Ohio; Michigan; and west. 



13. G. axenopis Meyrick. Palpus with second segment powdery gray, third 

 white with two slender, blackish bands. Shoulders tinted with yellow; fore wing 

 powdery gray, with several rusty yellow streaks between the veins, toward apex 

 breaking up into a series of oblique streaks between the veins. 11 mm. (artemisiella 

 Kearfott, not Treitschke). 



Meyrick considers this a Phthorimoea. It will almost certainly be congeneric 

 with "Lita " wrtemisiella of Europe. 



Caterpillar webbing together the young terminal leaves of Artemisia canadensis, 

 and eating back into the stem. 



Atlantic States. 



G. saphirinella Chambers is similar, but with nearly white second segment of 

 palpus, blackish shoulders, and more brilliant orange-red stripes on wing. Eastern 

 records should probably be credited to G. axenopis. 



14. G. batanella Busck. Antennae annulate with black and white, the white 

 annulations as wide as the black; and without distinct brown ones. Palpi obscurely 

 annulate. Fore wing white, usually lightly dusted with black; the black gathering 

 into a shade at apical third, or defining an angulate pale postmedial line ; four small 

 yellow and light brown spots at middle and end of cell, and middle of inner edge, 

 and two. more farther out, all obscure and variable; fringe white, black dotted, 

 and with a broken black line. 12 mm. 



June. 



New Jersey to western Pennsylvania. 



15. G. petrella Busck. Head, palpi, thorax, and wings white; almost evenly and 

 moderately dusted with fuscous, the white dominant. Antennae white, ringed with 

 black. Discal dots blackish, not contrasting. 17 mm. 



May. 



Hampton, New Hampshire. 



16. G. scutellariaeella Chambers. Fore wing dark powdery fuscous, each scale 

 bluish at base and finely tipped with white; apex paler, with ill-defined whitish 

 costal and dorsal streaks; palpi yellowish within. 9 mm. 



The caterpillar is white, with a pale yellow head; and lives in a flat, curved 

 case covered with frass, which it leaves to mine in a leaf of the food plant. 

 Apparently, a single case is used, which is permanently attached by the smaller 

 end. Food: Scutellaria. 



Only the type is known. 



Kentucky. 



