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more ochreous cervical shield, and a dark ochre head, with black dots at the 

 eyes. The tubercles and hairs are black. It folds and ties together leaves of 

 water-parsnip (Sium) and caraway. 



Massachusetts to Virginia. "New York" (Busck). 



6. D. heracliana DeGeer. Luteous shaded with brown, forming longitudinal 

 stripes or shades. Longitudinal stripes in cell, fold, and near base' of inner mar- 

 gin; the stripes in the outer part of the wing lying between the veins, and 

 interrupted by the angulate pale postmedial line; a dark discal dot. Palpus with 

 two dark rings on third joint. 25 mm. {umbellana Fabricius, pastinacella Dupon- 

 chel, ontariella Bethune. ) 



Caterpillar webbing together the flower heads and seeds, more rarely also the 

 leaves of wild parsnip ( Heracleum ) and other Umbellif erse, in June and July ; 

 usually entering the hollow stems to pupate. Green-gray, paler and yellower 

 below, with head, plates, true legs, and tubercles black. Moth emerging in July 

 and immediately retiring till the following spring. Of general distribution and 

 decidedly common. New York: Crosby (Yates County), Ithaca, Albany, Rhine- 

 beck, New Windsor, West Farms. 



7. D. emeritella Stainton, race alienella Busck. Fore wing red-brown, dusted 

 with white, with shaded, angulate, pale postmedial line, and white discal dot. 

 Hind wing with red fringe. 



The typical species occurs in Europe. 



Caterpillar on Artemisia and presumably other aromatic Composite. 



Oregon. New York : Ilion. 



8. 1NGA Busck 

 (Cryptolechia, Anesyckia, in part) 



Closely similar to Depressaria; no pecten; abdomen cylindrical. Fore wing 

 with CUj and Cu ; subparallel and strongly curved at base. No ocelli or maxil- 

 lary palpi; labials long, upturned, and smooth. The black and white coloring is 

 shared by Depressaria canella. 



1. I. sparsiciliella Clemens. White; a black dot at base of costa and bar near 

 base of inner margin, a squarish black spot near middle of costa, two black discal 

 dots; black subterminal dots tending to run together. Hind wings and under 

 side dark gray, head white with some black. 16 mm. (contrariella Walker, 

 atropicta Zeller). 



Southward this species flies in May and June. 



New York to Texas. New York : West Farms. 



9. 8EMI0SC0PIS Hiibner 

 (Enicostoma, in part; Epigraphia Stephens) 



With ocelli. No distinct maxillary palpi. Labial palpi upturned in front of 

 face, the second joint with indications of a bifurcated tuft toward the tip, the 

 third shorter than in Depressaria and slender; tongue somewhat weak; no pecten. 

 Fore wing with marked apex and oblique outer margin, Cu 2 more strongly curved 

 than CUj. (The two are stalked in 8. inornata [subgenus Epigraphia]). Of our 

 species S. megamicrella also may be an Epigraphia, but I have no full notes 

 concerning it. 



The caterpillars are found on deciduous trees in the fall; the moths flying in 

 the spring from April to June. Agonopteryx alienella, with but slightly flattened 

 abdomen, forms the transition to this genus, but may be distinguished by its pecten 

 and blunter wings. 



