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13. T. fernaldella Busck. Palpus very long, second segment smooth on dorsal 

 side. Cream white, including head and palpi. Fore wing lightly dusted with 

 light dull gray between the veins, which stand out pale. A small blackish spot 

 beyond middle and one at end of cell, sometimes with a few blackish scales in 

 fold below the first. Outer margin strongly oblique. 18 mm. 



June. Very similar to T. chamber sella, but paler and much larger; also easily 

 confused with the Gelechias if the palpi are not noted. 



Orono, Maine; Adirondacks; Manitoba. New York: Peru. 



14. T. setosella Clemens. Almost exactly similar to Dichomeris eupatoriellus. 

 Fuscous gray; a costal cream-colored stripe, gradually narrowing to postmedial 

 line, where it runs out. Postmedial line yellow, slightly concave, edged beyond 

 with a blackish shade. A very heavy and widely open V-shaped mark in cell and 

 fold from close to base almost to middle of wing, filled with an extension of the 

 cream-colored costa. 18 mm. (Malacotricha bilobella Zeller). 



July and August. 



General and not rare. New York: Ithaca; Sea Cliff, Long Island. 



8i/ 2 . BRACHMIA Hiibner 



Similar to Trichotaphe. Fore wing with R 3 shortly stalked with R,^. Palpi 

 long, upcurved, and moderately thickened. 



1. B. hystricella Braun. Brownish ochreous or fuscous. Face straw-colored; 

 palpi with two fine longitudinal lines. Antennae dark, banded beneath with whitish. 

 Fore wing with veins distinctly outlined with pale straw color, costal and inner 

 margins, and a streak in cell also whitish. Ordinary spots black, outlined with 

 white, the one corresponding to the claviform elongate. Costal fringe straw-colored, 

 dorsal fuscous, contrasting. Terminal line blackish, fringe with two dark lines. 

 Hind wing yellowish white or light gray. 14 mm. 



Several broods a year; larvae in rolled leaves of Hystrix patula. Larvae of the 

 last brood wintering in the rolled leaves. Larva with head brownish ochreous, 

 the lateral margins dark reddish brown; prothorax whitish, with a continuation 

 of the lines of the head; next four segments dark brown, the anterior edges of 

 the first two whitish; rest of body whitish with a brown, subdorsal line and 

 oblique lateral stripes. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



9. DICHOMERIS Hiibner 



'(Ypsolophus auct., not Fabricms; Nothris auct., etc.) 



Palpus with a prominent triangular tuft on ventral side of second segment, 

 extending beyond the attachment of the third, which is longer than the second 

 without its tufts, and slender. Fore wing long, normal; R and R 6 stalked, CUj 

 and Cu 2 stalked, the other veins free. Hind wing with R and Mj approximate or 

 shortly stalked; M 3 and CUj connate or stalked; M 2 associated with Cu-stem. 



Key to the species 



1. Fore wing very long and narrow (over four times as long as wide) ; hind wing 



bluish, translucent between the veins 1. ligulella. 



1. Fore wing usually about three times as long as wide and always less than 

 four; hind wing fully scaled. 



2. Fore wing with dark dorsal spot two-thirds way out 8. citrifoliella. 



2. No dark spot two-thirds way out on inner margin. 



3. Two large black spots on disc 11. eupatoriella. 



3. No large black spot on disc. 



4. Margins concolorous with the ground. 



