234 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



5. Outer transverse stripe from mid costa broadening into a fuscous blotch 



covering entire lower terminal area (6) semiovana. 



Lower terminal area not suffused with fuscous 6 



6. Terminal area of fore wing near tornus faintly bluish (4) discigerana. 



Terminal area near tornus not bluish (5) spiraeifoliana. 



7. Basal patch blackish; outer marking and dustings on fore wing a con- 



trasting ferruginous ochreous 8 



Basal patch red, brownish ochreous, ferruginous brown, or ferruginous 

 ochreous ; if sometimes very dark brown then with outer dark marking not 

 a contrasting ferruginous ochreous 9 



8. Hind wing dark smoky fuscous (9) burgessiana. 



Hind wing whitish (10) var. pnini. 



9. Lower terminal area of fore wing whitish with a single distinct black dot 



near tornus (14) pulchellana. 



Lower terminal area not so marked 10 



10. Basal patch strongly marked ; if faint then with upper margin shaded with 



blackish fuscous 11 



Basal patch nearly obsolete (13) platanana. 



11. Basal patch shaded on upper margin with blackish fuscous__(8) maritima. 

 Basal patch not so dark margined 12 



12. Basal patch dark fuscous brown (7) angulifasciana. 



Basal patch ochreous or ferruginous brown 13 



13. Cilia of fore wing below apex cream white, faintly suffused with ferruginous 



ochreous (11) laciniana. 



Cilia of fore wing below apex more ferruginous ochreous than whitish. 



(12) fuscociliana, 



1. ANCHYLOPKRA NUBECULANA aemens. 



(Fig. 388.) 



Anchylopera nubeculana Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 349. 

 Phoxopteris nubeculana Zetj^ee, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 25, 1875, 



p. 249.— Riley, Rept. U. S. Dept Agr., 1878, p. 239, 

 Anoylis nubeculana Feenald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5240, 1903. — 



Kearfott, Can. Ent., vol, 37, 1905, p. 253.— Leach, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr., 



no. 435, 1916. — Baenes and McDuknough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., 



no. 7174, 1917. 



This species is economically the most important of the Anchylopera 

 and the best known. It is a common apple pest. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection from 

 New Brighton, Pennsylvania ("H. D. Merrick, V-27-04"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Amer- 

 ican Museum, and collection Barnes: Pennsylvania, New Jersej^, 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Iowa, Michigan, Manitoba, Ontario. 



Alar expanse. — 14r-16,5 mm. 



Type. — In Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Type locality. — Pennsylvania? 



Food plant. — Apple. 



