LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 639 



Common and generally distributed. Xew York: Peru, Lancaster, Ithaca, Big 

 Indian Valley, Rhinebeck, Xew Windsor, Katonah. 



2. P. bipunctella Ragonot. Similar, with costal half of fore wing white, includ- 

 ing the cell; ground generally paler. 15 mm. 



North Carolina. 



114. CALERA Ragonot 



Similar to Peoria; scape broadened and flattened; M : , M 3 , and Cu! fused. 



1. C. punctilimbella Ragonot. Marked like P. approawmella ; more delicate, 

 as a rule without any blackish shade. Very possibly a venational aberration of 

 approximella. 



North Carolina; Texas; Louisana. 



115. CABXIA Dyar 



Fore wing with CUj and Co, stalked, M 2 absent, as well as M 3 ; three radials 

 only; a costal fold beneath, at base. Palpi upturned, second segment with a tuft 

 below; maxillary palpi simple; male antennae with a slight process on scape; 

 shaft sinuous at base and slightly thickened, with a few hairs in the bend. 



1. C. myronella Dyar. Dark cinereous, even; lightly dusted with white; lines 

 obscure, whitish, sinuous, distinct only toward the inner margin. 11 mm. 



June. 



District of Columbia. 



116. VARNERIA Dyar 



Fore wing with nine veins; R 2 and R 4 separate, M 2 lost, M 3 and Cu, stalked; 

 hind wing with six veins, Sc and M 2 lost, M 3 and Cu! stalked; Cu, near angle; 

 discocellular short, slightly curved. Tongue as long as head; palpi upturned 

 above vertex, third segment more than half as long as second. 



1. V. postremella Dyar. Crimson, immaculate. Head, thorax, and costa of fore 

 wing somew r hat suffused with blackish; sometimes with blackish shades on the 

 veins beyond the cell. Hind wing fuscous gray. 10 mm. 



July and early August. 



East River, Connecticut, to Kentucky. 



FAMILY 34. PTEROPHORHXffi 



(Alucitidae) 



Head prominent; palpi often rather long, tongue functional; maxil- 

 lary palp: obsolete ; ocelli weak or absent ; antennae long, with two 

 rows of scales to a segment above ; pubescent below, simple. Legs very 

 long and slender, the hind legs normally much longer than the entire 

 body ; with strong scale tufts at the spurs ; spurs all present and excep- 

 tionally long. Fore wing, in the northeastern species, deeply cleft at 

 middle of outer margin; hind wing cleft into three narrow feathers, 

 often nearly to the base (in the Agdistin (fig. 404) the wings are 

 entire). Venation of fore wing (figs. 400 to 403) often reduced in the 

 radial region, M! and M 2 very short and weak, running to the notch, 

 1st A generally well developed, much longer than 2d A, anal angle 

 located if developed at all, at Cu 2 . Inner margin of fore wing and 

 costa of hind wing folded over near middle and interlocking. 



