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1. MABTYRINGA Busck 



{(Egoconia Walsingham) 



Antennae heavy, flattened, strongly serrate; no pecten; no ocelli, palpus upturned 

 beyond vertex, second segment a little thickened, third about as long as second. 

 Fore wing (fig. 136) more than three times as long as wide, with rounded outer 

 margin; Mj arising well below angle of cell, M 2 lost, M 3 approximate to CUj and Cu 2 , 

 which are stalked; 1st A apparently lost; R 5 running to apex or costa. Hind wing 

 ample, M 3 lost, M 2 connate with CUj. Mi from a third way down end of cell. 



A curious form, looking like a Depressaria, but with some Gelechiid characters. 

 Early stages unknown. 



1. M. latipennis Walsingham. Clay color, dusted with blackish, and with slightly 

 blurred blackish marks; middle half of costa dark-shaded; base also more broadly 

 shaded with dark. Orbicular and claviform spots oval, black, rarely fusing, reni- 

 form the larger, and squarish, the region beyond it darker almost to the margin, 

 defining a pale, irregularly sinuous postmedial line. Terminal line gray, narrow. 

 Hind wing paler and grayer. 15 mm. 



July to August. 



Known from southern Connecticut to North Carolina and Missouri; New York: 

 Ithaca. , 



2. EUMEYRICKIA Busck 



Palpi with triangularly tufted second joint and much longer, very slender 

 third joint (fig. 146); antennae slender, normal, without pecten; no ocelli. Fore 

 wing (fig. 137) more triangular than usual, with subfalcate apex and arched 

 costa. R 4 and R B forking over apex, the other veins separate, Cu 2 straight. Hind 

 wing ample, with veins R to M 3 nearly evenly spaced, and M 3 almost connate 

 with CUj. 



Busck suggests that this genus is related to Ethmia. The moth favors hollow 

 trees, and struts about with wings elevated like some Glyphipterygidae. 



1. E. trimaculella Fitch. Third joint of palpus blackish with two longitudinal 

 white lines, not quite reaching base; second joint white-tipped and with white 

 patches on inner side. Fore wing fuscous, dusted heavily on a luteous ground, 

 leaving two pale costal spots toward apex and other faint markings; fringe dark 

 with a double series of pale bars. Hind wings dark. 13 mm. 



The moth flies in June southward, and in early July in the North. 



Parry Sound, Ontario, and Megantic, Quebec, to North Carolina and Ohio. 

 New York: Upper Ausable Lake. 



Eido albapalpella Chambers. (Venilia Chambers, not Duponchel) has never 

 been identified and may be the same species as the preceding; but as described 

 the palpus is paler, the third joint is white, except for the blackish base, and the 

 second white on its inner side. 



Kentucky. 



3. GERDANA Busck 



Palpi somewhat loosely held, upturned nearly to vertex, with slightly rough 

 and thickened second joint, and somewhat shorter third; pecten present; abdomen 

 slightly flattened. Fore wing elongate, ovate, blunt; veins M 2 to Cu 2 approxi- 

 mate at lower angle of cell; R 5 reaching margin just below apex; Cu 2 remote. Hind 

 wing with costa sinuate, R and M t distant but divergent. M 3 and C\l t connate or 

 stalked. The habitus of this genus is rather like that of Depressaria. 



1. G. caritella Busck. Straw to ochre yellow, suffused with darker brownish 

 yellow; palpi brown; face, head, and thorax lighter; fore wing with basal half of 



