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23. A. vaccinii Riley. Similar to M. indiginella ; rather smaller; under side of 

 costa of male with yellow sex scaling. Upper side more contrastingly marked, 

 with considerable white on costa, and inner antemedial band heavily black, the 

 costal black antemedial spot not so neatly triangular. Discal dots we'll separated. 

 Red shading more diffuse than in A. indiginella. 16 mm. 



August. Larva variable in color, with shining yellow head, and paler cervical 

 shield and anal plate; in berries of Vaccinium (blueberries and huckleberries) ; 

 often injurious. The moth flies over the bushes, and is easily flushed in the 

 daytime. 



Massachusetts to Texas. 



24. A. indiginella Zeller. Pale gray, dusted on a white base; a broad ante- 

 medial black triangle on costa, with two fine divergent lines running from it to the 

 inner margin, enclosing a red-shaded area. Base also shaded with red. Median 

 area shaded with dark gray below, and toward the postmedial line; which is pale, 

 defined with dark gray and moderately irregular. A black discal bar, in variety 

 nebulella Riley broken into two dots. A small triangular subterminal black shade 

 at costa. 17-22 mm. (Phycita nebulo Walsh). (H. p. 409 f. 228-229.) 



Caterpillar dull olive, with dark red-brown head and blackish shields; webbing 

 the leaves together in the spring, and living in a frass tube. The young cater- 

 pillar hibernates. The species is sometimes injurious to apple, and eats most 

 other Resales also. 



Moth in July. 



Generally distributed. New York : Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Schenectady, 

 Albany. 



76. ULOPHORA Ragonot 



Similar to Dioryctria. Antennae simple, a little thickened toward the base, not 

 curved; palpi upturned beyond vertex, maxillary palpi in the male rough, flatly 

 scaled, compressed against the smoothly scaled front. Fore wing with a scale-tuft 

 before the antemedial line. 



1. U. groteii Ragonot. Fore wing brown at base, shaded with dark gray-green, 

 especially beyond the tuft; outer part light gray, powdery, heavily shaded or 

 overlaid with blackish; lines concolorous, heavily edged on both sides with dark 

 slate gray; the antemedial convex, at the middle of the wing, the postmedial 

 strongly bent out at middle, concave above and below, located far out: raised tuft 

 very heavy, blackish; discal dots black, the lower one contrasting. Hind wing of 

 male bright coppery luteous, with dark margin, of female, dull and darker. 18 mm. 



July and August. 

 North Carolina; Florida. 



2. U. tephrosiella Dyar. Base powdery light gray, shaded with dark gray: a 

 brown band before the antemedial line, which is at the middle of the wing, and is 

 paler, followed with blackish ; outer half deep gray, with paler normal postmedial 

 line, both lines defined with blackish. 15 mm. 



Larva on Tephrosia. 

 North Carolina. 



U. brunneella Dyar, also from North Carolina, the area before the antemedial 

 line is black. 



77. DIORYCTRIA Zeller 

 (With Pinipestif Hnlst) 



Male antennse nearlv straieht, usually with a little raised scaling on the inner 

 side at the base of the shaft; sometimes serrate; scape rounded, curved, with a 

 slight scale tuft only. Palpi upturned to bevond vertex; mnxillarv palpj cylindri- 

 cal, porrect, rough-scaled. Fore winsr normal: in group Pinipestis with Drained 

 caling, normally forming antemedial and medial rough ridges. Hind wing of 



