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before middle and before apex of third segment. Antennae blackish, obscurely 

 annulate. Head and thorax variable, usually gray, with pale face; fore wing 

 with ground powdery brown-gray, suffused with yellow and shaded with pink; 

 markings blackish, about as in D. roseosuffusella, not distinct below fold, and with 

 a somewhat less distinct costal spot before the apex. Fore wing dark gray beneath, 

 with a longitudinal pale streak along middle of costa, and pale subterminal spot. 

 Hind wing with a streak of rough gray scales below costa. 11 mm. 



July. 



Massachusetts; Texas. New York: Rock City. 



There are a number of undetermined species closely related to this, and which 

 will run to this in the key, but which differ in details of markings and sex-scaling; 

 one, usually considered the same, seems to differ only in the white-annulate 

 antennae, and eats apple. A. intermediella Chambers is a name belonging to a 

 member of this group. 



5. A. fungivorella Clemens. General pattern as in roseosuffusella, etc. Head 

 whitish, tinged with fuscous; palpi white, second segment with three blackish 

 rings, third also with three, leaving the extreme tip white. Fore wing pale 

 luteous, the inner margin strongly dusted with testaceous brown from base to tip; 

 the costal half with bands of fuscous brown, on a brownish-dusted, luteous base; 

 second band ending in a point, opposite which is a blackish, white-ringed dot; 

 a couple of black terminal dots near anal angle. Fringe testaceous with a white 

 patch below apex crossed by a dark line, and a white patch near anal angle. 12 mm. 



August. A leaf-roller on willow, often feeding in the various willow-galls. 

 District of Columbia; Illinois; and probably generally distributed. 



6. A. salicifungiella Clemens. Very similar to A. fungivorella, of which it is 

 possibly a red variety. Head reddish, palpi pale red with two black rings on 

 second segment; third segment black-tipped; fore wings dark brick red, the outer 

 half almost solid red, the basal half marked with whitish; a whitish band near 

 the base, dusted with fuscous, and followed by a darker, red-brown band; three 

 small white spots on costa; ground dusted with fuscous, and inner margin with 

 whitish red and fuscous. Fringe red. 13 mm. 



August. Caterpillar in a loose open web 'between leaves of willow, not drawing 

 them together; eating parts of the leaves. Pale green, with many fine broken lines; 

 head paler, straw yellow. July. Cocoon outside the web, in trash, etc. 



Illinois; Texas, in June. 



A. ivae Busck, a Florida species without any pink shading at all, is to be 

 expected northward where its food, Iva frutesoens, occurs. 



7. A. elegantella Chambers. White. Four transverse, black-edged, rich brown 

 bands; a black bar on middle of disc containing four or five metallic lead-blue 

 spots. 13 mm. 



June, in Texas. 



Texas to Missouri, central Illinois, and west, doubtfully reported from 

 Pennsylvania. 



8. A. absconditella Walker. Shining bronzy gray -brown; extreme tip of second 

 segment of palpus white; third segment white with blackish shading at base and 

 apex; fore wing with a black spot at end of cell and sometimes a less distinct 

 one at middle; a fine outwardly oblique subterminal line from costa, fading out 

 at middle of wing, and a similar line opposite it running from inner margin, the 

 two at right angles. Fringe with more or less distinct, blackish basal line, cut 

 with luteous. 8--10 mm. 



May and June. Larva in stem of Polygonum, often causing a slight gall; 

 and apparently the same species in Ampelopsis. Larva hibernating. 

 District of Columbia; Kentucky; Missouri. 



9. A. minimella Chambers. Dark fuscous, indistinctly sprinkled with white, 

 no annuli on antenna; face a little paler below; fore wing with obscure pale 

 postmcdial dots on both margins. 9 mm. 



