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26. PSEUDOGALLERIA Ragonot 



Palpi porrect, clavate; the tip formed by the third joint but markedly set off 

 only in rubbed specimens. Thorax tufted. No sexual modifications. Fore wing 

 with all veins separate, and evenly spaced at margin; wing rather long and 

 narrow, as in Thiodia; apex marked; outer margin with a strong concavity center- 

 ing on Mj and M 2 ; R 2 arising from discal cell. Hind wing normal, with R and 

 M x approximate, M 2 close to M 3 at origin, M 3 connate or shortly stalked with Cu^ 



Eighth segment of abdomen somewhat chitinized and modified. Valve simple. 

 Uncus and socii absent. Gnathos weak. 



An isolated genus. The wing form and the modification of the eighth segment 

 suggest Hystrichophora, but in the remaining genitalic structures there is no 

 likeness. 



1. P. inimicella Zeller. Dull gray, more or less shaded with brown; the notch 

 in the margin edged with a brown band. Costa heavily shaded with blackish. 

 Hind wing practically concolorous. 13-20 mm. 



June. Apparently rare. Larva boring in rootstocks of Smilax. 



New Jersey to Manitoba and Texas. New York : Ithaca. 



27. HY8TRICHOPHORA Walsingham 



Fore wing similar to Pseudogalleria ; Accessory cell normal. 



Male genitalia with eighth segment of abdomen modified. Valves asymmetrical; 

 a strong dorsal process arising from the upper articulation of the valve and 

 extending out parallel to it; cucullus and sacculus not denned. Uncus long 

 strong, triangular, bifid; socii and gnathos absent. 



Three species of this genus are likely to occur in the territory considered. 

 H. vestaliatia Zeller is white with black points, and is known from Iowa; 

 H. ochreicostana Walsingham is brown and yellow, and has been taken in Missouri 

 and west; H. kokana Kearfott, a smoky species with contrasting pale border, 

 occurs to the southward. 



28. EPISIMUS Walsingham 



(Enarmonia Walsingham and Durrant, in part) 



Similar to Thiodia, but with M 3 and CUj of hind wing connate (fig. 262) instead 

 of stalked. . Fore wing smooth, with all veins free. 



A transitional genus, connecting the Eucosmini and Olethreutini. 



1. E. argutanus Clemens. Costa thickened, but not folded, in male. Dull red- 

 dish or grayish brown, the color made up of fine mottling in wood-brown, gray- 

 brown, and blackish, overlaid when fresh with purple. Costa shaded with black- 

 ish along middle; speculum confused, dark gray toward base of wing, paler out- 

 wardly, and more brown in the upper part, where there are a couple of black 

 dots. 13 mm. (B'actra Clemens). 



May. Larva on various shrubs, especially Rhus and Hamamelis; on Euphorbia 

 in the south. The larva lives between two leaves sewed together, or rolls a leaf 

 into a cone. ( Possibly Catastega hamameliella Clemens ) . 



New York to Florida. New York: Speculator, Crosby (Yates County), Ithaca, 

 New York City. 



2. E. tyrius Heinrich. Whitish gray, tinted with ochre, and shading into 

 orange ochre and reddish toward outer margin. Costal part on basal half dark 

 brown, contrasting, the boundary sharp toward base, and strongly curving down 

 in antemedial region, diffuse outward. Hind wing dark gray. 12-15 mm. 



Larva on maple, with nearly the habits of E. argutanus. 

 Long Island, New York to Mississippi. 



