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traces of a postmedial fascia. Black bars on costa and terminal dots. Hind wing 

 whitish. Blackish shade near base and shade over the discal dots typically 

 strongly contrasting. 16 mm. 



June and July. 



Connecticut to North Carolina; Illinois. New York: Ithaca. 



18. A. robiniella Packard. Yellow, heavily shaded and dusted with dull crimson 

 red and a little fuscous, the latter forming a series of terminal dots. A vague 

 triangular reddish shade over middle of wing, with a circular pale area before 

 it containing discal dot a, and with the small pale discal dot d on its outer edge. 

 A darker subterminal shade. Hind wing fuscous. Head and thorax concolorous 

 with fore wing; abdomen, with hind wing. 18-20 mm. (hilarella Zeller). 



Caterpillar on Robinia in June. Moth in July. 



General in distribution. New York: Schenectady, Bridgetown, Rhinebeck, 

 Crugers, Katonah. 



19. A. lecontella Clemens. Head dull ochreous, with some fuscous on second, 

 and two dark rings on third joint of palpus. Antennae fuscous; thorax dull 

 ochreous with two black-brown dots in front. Fore wings slightly darker, nearly 

 evenly dotted with dark, and somewhat washed with rufous; a slight dark shade 

 only on disc. Discal dots a and d distinct. Hind wing gray. 22 mm. 



Caterpillar possibly on Sanicula and Pimpinella. 



Vermont to Maryland and Ohio. New York: Ithaca, Schenectady, New Windsor; 

 Sea Cliff, Long Island. 



20. A. allenella Walsingham. Fore wings broader with more arched costa, with 

 CUj and Cu 2 sometimes only very closely approximate. Abdomen only slightly 

 flattened. Pecten weak, palpi practically, smooth. Fore wing with rough scales 

 and a discal tuft. Pale gray; palpi powdery; fore wing minutely mottled and 

 dusted with blackish, with somewhat more distinct black points on costa, especially 

 toward base; a fuscous subterminal shade, more distinct on costa, and a slight 

 streak in base of fold. Two black discal dots at end of cell. Hind wing of the 

 paler gray ground-color. 18 mm. (Semioscopis). 



June. Larva on oak. 



Maine to Virginia and western Pennsylvania. New York: McLean, Rhinebeck. 



7. DEPEESSARIA Haworth 

 (In part; Schistodepressaria Spuler) 



Head somewhat rough-scaled, with small ocelli and maxillary palpi; labial palpi 

 with a furrowed brush on under side of second joint, third joint long and smooth; 

 antennae with pecten. Abdomen markedly flattened, and wings folded flat over 

 the back at rest. Fore wing more or less oblong (fig. 140) with blunt or rounded 

 apex, R 5 running to costa or apex, CUj strongly curved at base, Cu 2 well separated 

 from it, often nearly straight. Hind wing broader, usually strongly lobed at 

 anal angle, with all veins present; R and M t parallel, M 3 and Cu\ connate or short- 

 stalked, M 2 arising near M 3 . 



The fore wings tend much more to longitudinal marking than in Agonopteryx. 

 The discal dots a and b usually fuse into a streak, and there is almost always a 

 blackish bar along the base of the inner margin, in place of the pale base of 

 most Agonopteryxes. The moths emerge in July and go immediately into winter 

 quarters, coming out and laying their eggs the following March or April. The 

 caterpillars (figs. 149, 150) live in webs on various plants, especially Umbelliferae. 

 The generic name Depressaria was formerly used to include a great variety of 

 (Ecophoridse and even Gelechiidee, mostly species with similar tufted palpi. 



