LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 621 



White Mountains, New Hampshire, to Colorado and south. A variety in Florida. 

 New York: Ithaca. 



5. D. abietella Fabricius. Closely similar to D. reniculella, but averaging a 

 little larger. 25-28 mm. 



Distribution uncertain; well-known in Europe, where it has the habits of the 

 preceding. 



Two broods, the second perhaps partial. 



Our records are partly based on the preceding species; part are correct. I can 

 give no tangible differences between the two species. 



78. MONOPTILOTA Hulst 

 (Dioryctria, in part) 



Similar to Dioryctria; maxillary palpi small, but slightly plumose; male 

 antennae with scape enlarged, shaft strongly curved at base, the curvature filled 

 with scales on the inner side, unipectinate on outer side nearly to apex. Fore 

 wings smooth. 



1. M. nubilella Hulst. (Lima-bean vine borer). Fuscous, shaded with whitish, 

 especially over and beyond the cell, and somewhat streaked with blackish; ante- 

 medial line indicated by blackish streaks; postmedial line normal, very faint, pale; 

 discal dots a little lengthened, not contrasting. Hind wing translucent in male, 

 dark in female. 23 mm. 



Larva producing gall-like swellings in the stems of lima beans, usually about 

 two or three feet above the ground. Stout, blue-green, with a pinkish overlay on 

 the dorsum; head brown, shading into black on the mouth parts; cervical shield 

 olive brown; anal plate pale yellow, with four black dots. Tubercles pale. Pupa 

 in the earth. Larva mature in July; moth in August and September. There is 

 a partial second brood late in the fall. 



Maryland to Florida and Arizona. 



[ 79. GLTPTOCERA Ragonot 



(Nephopteryx, in part) 



Male antennae with shaft toward base slightly hollowed, forming a longitudinal 

 groove, edged on both sides with scales. Labial palpi normal; maxillary palpi 

 quite large, rough and thick; appressed to the frontal tuft. Venation normal; 

 hind wing of type 3b. . 



1. G. consobrinella Zeller. Tuft represented by a few raised scales. Fore wing 

 pale ash gray; base whitish, more or less overlaid with Indian red; a strong 

 blackish shad'e before the antemedial line; which is pale, bidentate irregularly, 

 and denned with black, two-fifths way out. Postmedial line similar, somewhat 

 sinuous and crenulate, at four-fifths the length of the wing; a heavy black discal 

 bar, with some blackish and dull red shading below it. 20 mm. 



End of May to August. 



Quebec to Texas. New r York: McLean. 



80. TACOMA Hulst 



Wings normal; male antenna with a curve in the shaft, filled with a large 

 scale tuft; scape simple. Palpa upturned to vertex; maxillary palpi large, filiform. 

 Fore wing with M 2 and M 3 stalked; discocellular vein bent before origin of Cu.. 



1. T. nyssaecolella Dyar. Powdery gray; antemedial line whitish, offset a little 

 on Cu. with a more evenly gray patch before it on inner half, and beyond it on 

 costal half, the, rest of the line defined with dark ; a pale shade beyond it on inner 



