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4. D. hirculella Busck. Wing form as in touceyella; hind wing fully scaled. 

 Palpus with second segment blackish on outer side, third ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous, heavily dusted and mottled with black scales, in effect, blackish fuscous; 

 and with blackish spots in cell, at end of cell, and sometimes a postmedial series 

 of smaller ones. Fringe yellower with blackish bars in base. Hind wing lighter 

 fuscous. 11-12 mm. 



East River, Connecticut. 



5. D. bipunctella Walsingham. Dull brownish yellow. Discal dots well marked; 

 terminal points each at end of an obscure grayish streak, rarely obscure. Veins 

 sometimes distinctly streaked. 22 mm.' 



April to July. 



Digby, Nova Scotia, to Florida, along the coast. Hazelton, Pennsylvania. 



6. D. trinotella Coquillett. Head pinkish brown; palpus with second segment 

 dark brown on outer side; tuft tipped with pale pinkish; third segment dark 

 brown. Antennae annulate; fore wing reddish brown, inclining to pink; sparsely 

 and coarsely dotted with black; often with three white spots near its center, the 

 outermost spot crossed by a black dash, the other two edged within with black, 

 sometimes with only the black spots. Hind wing dull leaden. 11 mm. (Nothris 

 Coquillett.) 



Caterpillar on hazel, in a folded leaf. 

 Illinois. 



7. D. vacciniella Busck. Tuft of palpus dark brown, its apex sprinkled with 

 white; third segment light brown, dusted with black, base white externally. Head 

 blackish. Fore wings wood-brown, shaded with dark brown on outer and inner 

 margins, and sparsely and irregularly strigose with black scales; three small, 

 round, black, white -ringed dots, or a few white scales at middle and end of cell 

 and in fold before the first dot; apex suffused with purple -black, becoming black 

 at margins; fringes dark fuscous, with light ochreous brown tips; thorax concol- 

 orous. 15-20 mm. 



Larva on cranberry. 

 Pemberton, New Jersey. 



8. D. citrifoliella Chambers. Ochre yellow, densely and evenly dusted with gray. 

 Palpus blackish, with tuft white tipped; third segment yellow. Thorax below, 

 shoulders, and costal edge at base, black. Fore wing with two antemedial dark 

 dots above and below fold; two dots in cell, in position of orbicular, and one dot 

 in fold just beyond them; a pair of blackish discal dots and a stronger blackish 

 shade on inner margin beyond them; postmedial line faint, pale, defined with dark, 

 irregular. Hind wing gray. 18 mm. 



June. Larva yellow with black head and cervical shield; a leaf-roller and bud- 

 worm on citrus and prickly ash; sometimes injurious to orange in the South. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, and south. 



9. D. caryaefoliella Chambers. Palpi as usual; head and thorax golden or reddish 

 iridescent, suffused with fuscous; fore wing iridescent, silky, suffused, showing 

 golden, red-brown, and lead color; two or three minute dots on disc. Hind wing 

 lead color. 22 mm. 



End of June. Caterpillar green with six interrupted longitudinal white stripes. 

 Head ferruginous; prothorax brown; true legs black. Sewing together leaves of 

 hickory in early June. At maturity it turns white, striped and suffused with pink. 



Missouri; Kentucky; Texas. 



10. D. georgiella Walker. (1866). Varying in color from light yellowish to dark 

 purple-brown, dusted with a darker shade, and with scattered black scales. Costal 

 edge pinkish, sometimes very narrowly; outer margin sometimes suffused with 

 pink. With antemedial; median, and discal dots, which sometimes run together 

 into three darker bands, parallel and slightly oblique inward. Orbicular and clavi- 

 form in the median band; almost always with some white scales; also with some 



