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Ground color of forewing bluish gray, the gray shade 

 most obvious in median area and as a narrow band 

 preceding the inner border of the antemedial line; base 

 maroon red, this shade more or less suffusing the gray 

 thorax; antemedial line obscure, bordered inwardly by 

 a broad madder-red band which extends to costa; a 

 similar red shade in outer area bordering the faint 

 sinuate sub terminal line and some red suffusion over 

 median part of the lower fold; discal spots distinct, 

 separated, black; terminal dots very faint more or less 

 confluent. Hind wing smoky white with a faint yellow- 

 ish tint; somewhat darker on females; a fine brown line 

 along termen. Alar expanse, 20-23 mm. 



Male genitalia of the femaldi type; the two cornuti 

 lie side by side, one slightly shorter and more slender 

 than the other. Female genitalia with bursa and re- 

 mainder of genitalia considerably smaller than in pre- 

 ceding species; two granulate patches, one large, one 

 considerably smaller, placed opposite each other on 

 lateral margins of the bursa. 



Type localities: Maine [?] {carneella, ia AMNH, 

 ex Rutgers; the male type bears no locality label, but 

 in his original description Hulst gives New Mexico as 

 the type locality; this, as pointed out by Barnes and 

 McDunnough, is probably an error or pure guesswork 

 on Hulst's part) ; Wisconsin {inguilinella, in Paris Mus.). 



Food plant: Salix (carneella) ; galls of sawfly (Euura 

 Salicisnodum) on willow. 



Distribution: United States: Maine, Monmouth 

 (July), and two examples with only state locality; Mas- 

 sachusetts, Amherst (June), Martha's Vineyard (Apr.); 

 Indiana, Hessville (June); Wisconsin; Michigan, Dick- 

 inson County. Canada: Ontario, Ottawa (June), 

 Trenton (July); Manitoba, Aweme (May). 



Hulst was correct the first time (1889) in making 

 inquilinella a synonym of his carneella. The genitalia 

 of their male types are identical. 



262. Nephopteryx basilaris Zeller 

 Figures 341, 829 



Nephopteryx basilaris Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot Ges. Wein, vol. 22, 

 p. 548, 1872.— Grote, N. Amer. Ent., vol. 1, p. 51, 1880.— 

 Hulst, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 145, 1890. 



Salebria basilaris (Zeller) Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 1. p. 353, 

 1893.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 627, 1923.— McDun- 

 nough, Check list, No. 6209, 1939. 



Forewing pale ash gray to dark gray with a faint 

 bluish tint; basal area pale wood brown or pale orange, 

 a black shade along its inner margin expanding upward 

 at antemedial line to middle of cell; the lower fold in 

 basal area streaked with red or reddish brown with 

 some scattering of similarly colored scales on the pale 

 area above; antemedial line distinct to top of cell, well 

 contrasted, grayish white, nearly vertical, inwardly 

 dentate between cell and inner margin; margined out- 

 wardly by a narrow black line; subterminal line faint 

 but distinguishable, sinuate-dentate, followed in outer 

 area (on some specimens) by a broad reddish shade; 

 discal dots obscured ; a row of small blackish dots along 

 terminal margin. Hind wings white with a faint ocher- 



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ous or smoky tint; the veins very faintly darkened; a 

 thin brownish line along termen. Alar expanse, 24-27 

 mm. 



Male genitalia resembling those of subcaesiella; the 

 clasper and lateral elements of transtilla somewhat 

 stronger; the smaller cornutus on penis longer and 

 stouter but also on some specimens reduced to a mere 

 vestige. Female genitalia with two granulate patches 

 on ventral surface of bursa, a weaker granulation of the 

 surface connecting them. 



Type locality: Massachusetts (type in BM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Maine, Augusta 

 (June), Orono; New Hampshire, Hampton (June); Mas- 

 sachusetts, Martha's Vineyard (July), Wilmington 

 (June); New York, CatskiU Mts., Ilion (June); New 

 Jersey, Newark; Illinois, Lacon (June); Indiana, Hess- 

 ville (May, July) ; Michigan, one example, state locality 

 only; Colorado, Fort Collins (July), and one example 

 state locality only; Utah, Provo Canyon (July). Can- 

 ada: Ontario, Budbury, Hymers (July), Trenton (July); 

 Manitoba, Aweme (June), McCreary, Winnipeg. 



A strikingly marked species, the most easily identified 

 in the genus. The maxiUary palpus of the male is, as 

 noted by Ragonot (Monograph, p. 354), not strictly in 

 the form of an aigrette. The scales are moderately 

 long and slender, but not hairlike, intermediate between 

 those of a squamous and a typical aigrettelike palpus. 

 The labial palpus is grooved on inner surface of the 

 second segment as in most species having maxillary 

 palpi of the aigrette type. 



263. Nephopteryx termi talis (Hulst), new combination 

 Figures 342, 828 



Pempelia termitalis Hulst, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol 13, p. 162, 



1886. 

 Salebria termitalis (Hulst) Ragonot, Ent. Amer., vol. 5, p. 115, 



1889.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 153, 1890. 

 Salebria levigatella Hulst, Canadian Ent., vol. 24, p. 61, 1892. — 



Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 626, 1923. — McDunnough, 



Check list, No. 6207, 1939. (New synonymy.) 

 Myrlaea termitalis (Hulst) Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 1, p. 401, 



1893.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6223, 1939. 



Forewing dark suffused gray (darker than on basilaris) ; 

 basal area duU reddish orange with little black on most 

 specimens except along costal edge; on others some 

 black scaling at extreme base and, narrowly, along 

 inner margin; antemedial line nearly obliterated by its 

 black borders which are more or less fused and from a 

 broad, nearly vertical band from inner margin to costa, 

 not strongly contrasted against the dark ground color 

 of the wing; subterminal line, discal and terminal dots 

 obscure. 



Thorax dark gray, on some specimens more or less 

 suffused by the orange color of the basal area of fore- 

 wing. One specimen before me (a male from Inyo 

 Coimty, Calif.) has the entire thorax and base of fore- 

 wing to the black inner border of the antemedial line a 

 dull madder-red, and the outer third of wing faintly 

 suffused with the same reddish shade. Hind wing dull 



