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followed by a clean-cut fuscous line. Median area whitish, outer third fuscous, 

 crossed by a fine wavy normal postmedi-1 line, tlie outer margin gray. Discal dots 

 black, distinct. Terminal line black, almost continuous. Tuft on antenna more 

 than twice as long as scape, not very broad. 16 mm. (Uquidambarella Dyar). 



The fuscous areas all show a slight reddish iridescence. 



Larva on sweet gum. 



Northern New Jersey to Florida. 



5. S. contatella Grote. Middle tibiae pale, with a dark annulus toward tip. Fore 

 wings powdery gray, base shading into reddish near basal angle, median area 

 typically suffused with mouse gray, leaving a vague pale patch on inner margin 

 beyond the antemedial line; in light specimens, concolorous with the base, with 

 only a vague gray median shade from the discal dot to the inner margin. Ante- 

 medial line whitish, zigzag, preceded by a heavy blackish shade and followed by 

 a fine blackish line, thickened on Cu and A; or reduced to black wedges on Cu 

 and A; postmedial line normal, doubly defined with darker gray; discal dots a 

 little diffuse and tending to fuse. A broken black terminal line. Ordinary lines 

 often nearly obsolete. Hind wing pale yellowish. 20-28 mm. (Probably subccesi- 

 ella, Clemens.) 



In variety quinquepunctella Grote (vvrgatella, Clemens) there are brown, reddish, 

 or yellowish streaks between the veins, cutting up the blackish markings into dots 

 or streaks on the veins. 



May to early July; August. Larva green, head black or reticulate with brown; 

 cervical shield black or spotted with black; body turning red before pupation. On 

 locust and wistaria between two leaves, in June and July. 



Maine to West Virginia and west to Colorado; the variety with as wide a range 

 as the type form. New York: Peru, Ithaca, Albany, New Windsor. 



6. S. vetustella Dyar. Gray, somewhat paler on the inner margin beyond the 

 antemedial line. Base dull orange-brown; a large blackish fascia before the ante- 

 medial line, narrow on costa, separated from the brown base by a narrow pale band. 

 Antemedial line outwardly oblique, a little dentate, pale filled, its inner line fused 

 with the black antemedial space. Wing beyond cell a little reddish, with an 

 obscure normal, pale postmedial line, two darker discal dots, and nearly continuous 

 terminal line. 22 mm. 



New York and Maryland to Illinois. 



7. S. celtidella Hulst. Ground light ochreous, the whole middle half suffused with 

 fuscous gray; base toward inner margin shaded with tawny, followed by a luteous 

 shade; antemedial line fully put to middle of wing, pale, defined with blackish, 

 abruptly offset in, and defined by black dots on each vein. Discal dots black, well 

 separated, the lower one in the upper part of a vague area of the pale ground color ; 

 postmedial line irregular and deeply dentate, defined on inner side by black dots 

 and on outer by strong black wedges; terminal space contrastingly pale; a strong 

 broken black terminal line. 18 mm. 



August. Larva joining leaves of Celtis; not forming a tube. Body striped evenly 

 in two shades of green; head and cervical shield piceous black, with two whitish 

 stripes on each; tubercles black. 



New England and central Illinois to Florida. 



8. S. laevigatella Hulst. Almost even fuscous, slightly powdery, with a few white 

 scales at lower angle of cell; antemedial line indicated by a double or triple blackish 

 shade on inner margin at one -third way out, separated by whitish scales; base 

 before it reddish; discal dots, postmedial line, and terminal line obscure. 25 mm. 

 Male not seen. 



Quebec; MassachuF^tts; Wisconsin. 



9. S. semiobscurella Hulst. Slightly smaller than Meroptera, pravella, but prac- 

 tically identical in markings; the blackish shading a little lighter, and the ante- 

 medial line usually distinct. Base of inner margin distinctly reddish. 20 mm. 



