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fold near base, in cell at middle, and in middle of wing toward apex, each with 

 some raised scales; with raised, black dorsal spots opposite the first two dashes, 

 and a little before the third. 11 mm. (oenotherivorella, cenotheriseminella 

 Chambers. ) 



October. Larva in seed-capsules of (Enothera. 



New Jersey to Missouri. New York : Ithaca, Albany. 



6. L. sexnotella Chambers. M, shortly stalked, but pecten and tuftings as in 

 Laverna, Brown-black; head white; palpus with gray at base, two black rings on 

 third segment; thorax with some white scales; scape white-tipped, and apex of 

 antenna; with five white rings on alternate segments. Fore wing with an oblique 

 white bar from the costa near base, an oblique triangle at middle, and a large 

 triangular white spot before the apex; raised dorsal silver spots opposite the first 

 two and just before the third; some white terminal dots, the largest at apex. 

 12 mm. (Stagmatophora.) 



May to August. Caterpillar a gall-maker in stem of Trichostema dicholomitm 

 (a mint) . 

 Massachusetts to Ontario and south. 



7. L. wyattella Barnes and Busck. Similar to L. sexnotella, larger; middle and 

 outer spots on inner margin of fore wing connected by white scaling; and white 

 markings as a whole rather more extensive; hind wing much darker, purplish 

 black with a purple sheen. 13-16 mm. (Stagmatophora Barnes and Busek. ) 



Chicago, Illinois. 



8. L. decorella Stephens. Black -brown, with two narrow, broken, transverse, 

 white fasciae and some scattered white spots. 11 mm. (unifasciella Chambers). 



August and September. Larva light gray -green,- with blackish head and brown 

 cervical shield ; in a stem gall on Epilobiurn, in July and August. 

 Quebec to West Coast. Eurasia. 



2. LIMN^ECIA Stainton 



(Lymnoecia auct. ; Laverna, in part) 



Head smooth ; eyes large ; scape slender, almost as long as width of head between 

 insertions of antenna?; pecten of few bristles, fugitive. Palpi smooth; third seg- 

 ment twice as long as second. Fore wing lanceolate (fig. 181) as in Laverna, but 

 with rudimentary tufts in cell only; 1st A completely lost. Hind wing two-thirds 

 as wide; venation as in Laverna, but with cubitals relatively longer and closer 

 together at origin. Fringe nearly twice as wide as membrane. A very distinct 

 genus of Australian affinity; our species cosmopolitan with its food plant. 



1. L. phragmitella Stainton. Clay-color. Palpus with two slender black lines on 

 third segment; scape with a black line; shaft of antenna with a series of black 

 dots. Fore wing with small black discal dots, ringed with white, and a weaker 

 black point or dash in the fold; fringe barred with cream. Hind wing light gray 

 with nearly white fringe. 20 mm. 



Of general distribution, emerging in early July. Caterpillar whitish, with yel- 

 lower head and several longitudinal pink stripes; eating in the seed-heads of cat- 

 tail, and causing them to fluff out; wintering half grown. One brood. 



New York: Lewiston, Ithaca. 



3. WAL8HIA Clemens 

 (Mompha auct. ; Sorhagenia Spuler) 



Similar to Laverna; pecten reduced to a single bristle. Palpus with second seg- 

 ment practically smooth, but fore wing heavily tufted. Fore wing (fig. 180) with 

 venation as in Laverna, but CUj nearer Cu 2 than M 3 at origin ; Cu 2 partly lost, easily 



