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29. 8ITOTROGA Heinemann 



Antenna with a sparse pecten, otherwise practically like Metzneria. We have 

 only one, probably introduced, species, of Oriental affinity; the Angoumois grain 

 moth. 



1. S. cerealella Olivier. Fore wing silky luteous yellow; hind wing fuscous, 

 fringes brownish fuscous. Ordinarily without markings, though some moths show 

 a black discal dot and a streak in the fold, and some, streaky black scaling. 15 mm. 

 (Anacampsis; Oelechia). 



Caterpillar stout, legless, white, with yellow head, breeding continuously in 

 stored grain. The moth flying at large in August. 



New York: Geneva, Ithaca, Albany; Smithtown, Long Island. 



30. METZNERIA Zeller 

 (Parasia) 



R* shortly, and R 6 long-stalked, with Mj (fig. 170) ; the other veins separate. Hind 

 wing with all veins widely separate, R and M! somewhat divergent, Mj and M 2 twice 

 as far apart as the others; anal region much reduced. 



This is a European genus of some size. We have one species probably intro- 

 duced with its food plant. 



1. M. lappella Linnaeus. Fore wing dull olive brown with paler yellowish shades 

 and streaks. Hind wing dark fuscous gray. 12-15 mm. 



May to August. Caterpillar stout, white, with black head and divided brown 

 cervical shield; legless; in burs of burdock, eating out the seeds and wintering as 

 larva. 



Europe; Canada to Pennsylvania. New York: Peru, Newcomb, Lewiston, 

 Ithaca, Katonah. 



31. PTTCERATA Ely 



(Pyncostola Meyrick (?); Paltodora Meyrick, in part, riot typical; 

 Cleodora Curtis, not Peron and Lesueur, etc.) 



Palpus typically with a long triangular terminal scale-tuft on second segment; 

 in subgenus Isophrictis Meyrick with a looser brush of spreading hair, very loose 

 in anteliella and busckiella. Hind wing with R and Mj approximate or connate; 

 otherwise like Metzneria. 



Key to the species 



1. A white oblique costal streak running down from beginning of costal fringe. 



2. Head cream white . 1 striatella. 



2. Head and thorax brown 2. anteliella,. 



1. No such streak. 



2. Entire wing with white-tipped scales and longitudinal ochreous streaks. 



3. similiella. 



2. Whitish, with two or three blackish dots 4. busckiella. 



1. P. striatella Hiibner. Brown; a fine white streak extending obliquely across 

 apex, with two white costal dots beyond it; an oblique whitish streak at anal 

 arigle, and more or less distinct pale longitudinal streaks. Fringe with a black 

 bar across apex. Hind wing fuscous. Head, including palpi and more or less of 

 thorax, contrasting, whitish. 12 mm. 



