242 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ancylis platanana Febnald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5254, 1903. — 

 Baknes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7191, 1917. 



This is the well known sycamore feeder. In addition to typical 

 pale specimens with the basal patch nearly obsolete I have before 

 me what I take to be a darker variety with well defined faun brown 

 basal patch and a well defined reddish outer bar on fore wing. 

 Most of these specimens are from Colorado and may represent a 

 distinct species. I hesitate to describe them or to include them 

 under platanana, as none of them have been reared. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection from 

 Oak Station, Pennsylvania ("Fred Marloff, 19 May, 1900"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes: District of Columbia, Mary- 

 land, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas. 



Alar expanse. — 10-16 mm. 



Types. — In Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (platkmana) ; 

 Museum Comparative Zoology (marcidana). 



Type'' localities. — Pennsylvania (platanana) ; Dallas, Texas (mar- 

 cidana) . 



Food plant. — Platanus. 



14. ANCHYLOPERA PULCHELLANA Clemens. 



(Fig. 389.) 



Anohylopera pulchellana Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 3, 1864, p. 511. 

 Proteopteryx pulcliellana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5218, 1903. 

 Ancylis pulchellana Keabfott, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 23, 1907, p. 159. — 

 Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7181, 1917. 



This species is distinguishable by the red-brown basal patch and 

 the small but conspicuous black dot on the whitish tornal area of the 

 fore wing. These characters are given in Clemens description. They 

 are not present however in the specimen in Philadelphia which Fer- 

 nald selected as the probable type. This latter is referable to laci- 

 niana as are many of the specimens which have been determined as 

 pulchellana. The actual type of pulchellana is probably nonexistant. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection from 

 Merchantville, New Jersey (" V-26-1904"). 



Specimens in National Collection, American Museum, and collec- 

 tion Barnes from New Jersey. 



Alar expanse. — 13-16 mm. 



Ty^e.— Lost? 



Type locality. — Virginia. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



