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It flies in Louisiana in June. 



Texas; Louisiana; Plummer's Island, Maryland. 



2. G. aequepulvella Chambers. Fore wing with all veins well separated except 

 Cu! and Cu 2 ; male antennae with notch cutting nearly halfway through stalk. 

 Light dull ochre, dusted with fuscous in about equal proportions. Palpus with 

 third segment darker; head and thorax pale. 14 mm. 



Virginia; Kentucky; Texas; Colorado; and Utah. 



3. G. speratella Busck. Fore wing with R 4+E stalked with R 3 . Antennae light 

 ochreous, in male with a slight indication of notch. Palpi slightly sprinkled with 

 fuscous externally, face and head light ochreous. Fore wing thickly and evenly 

 sprinkled with fuscous, and with four darker dots (the usual three and one near 

 base). 18 mm. 



Western Pennsylvania. 



4. G. meyrickella Busck. Palpi ochreous, third segment slightly scaled with 

 black on inner side; antennae light ochre, annulate with black, simple. Fore wing 

 evenly and profusely dusted with black scales, sometimes mostly fuscous, with 

 the usual discal dots but no terminal dots. Venation as in G. speratella. 



June in the South. 



Maryland and to Louisiana and Mississippi. New York: Ithaca. 



5. G. dimorphella Busck. R 4+B stalked with R 3 and M 3 with Cu! and Cu 2 . Palpi 

 yellow, lightly mottled with black scales; antennae yellowish fuscous, not strongly 

 annulate, and without notch. Head and thorax clear straw yellow; fore wing 

 light straw yellow, lightly dusted with black, with two blackish discal dots in 

 cell and a well-marked terminal series. 10-11 mm. 



Maryland. 



6. G. aberratella Busck. Fore wing witli R 4+5 stalked toith M 4 , forking over 

 apex; M 3 free (Sceptea Walsingham). Antennae dark fuscous and simple in both 

 sexes. Head and thorax dark; palpi heavily dusted; fore wing heavily overlaid 

 with fuscous scales, especially along edges and toward apex. The usual discal 

 dots nearly covered over. 14 mm. 



June. 



Maryland ; Virginia ; Missouri. 



There is an undescribed species from New York, near aberratella. 



11. ANORTHOSIA Clemens 



Male antenna with a deep oblique notch in shaft near base, the segments before 

 it much thickened. Palpi with a triangular tuft on second segment as in Dich- 

 omeris, but hardly as broad at tip, and in male with a large expansible tuft above. 

 Fore wing as in Trichotaphe and Dichomeris, CUj and Cu 2 strongly stalked; outer 

 margin oblique. Hind wing hardly as wide as fore wing, with apex more drawn out 

 than in Dichomeris. 



1. A. punctipennella Clemens. Rather dark ochreous. Palpi dark brownish 

 externally; antennae sharply annulate with dark brown. Ordinary spots dark, 

 somewhat diffuse, contrasting, and with an additional antemedial dot or pair 

 of dots. Fringe ochre yellow, with a series of black bars in its base. Hind wing 

 grayer. 12 mm. 



June and July. 



Distribution general, north to Pennsylvania. New York: Taughannock Falls, 

 Ithaca. 



12. STROBISIA Clemens 



Similar to Trichotaphe; palpi smooth, third segment as long as second or longer, 

 both smooth and slender. Fore wing typically with R 4 and R 5 united, long-stalked 

 in emblemella (subgenus Holophysis Walsingham), CUj and Cu 2 stalked. Hind wing 



