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4. Base of fore wing white 7. elegantella. 



4. Base of fore wing greenish black. . (Enchrysa dissectella) . 



3. No metallic markings. 



4. Fore wing with dark fascia at apical third 3. molestella. 



4. No such fascia; usually roseate. 



5. With pure white costal markings 1. roseosuffusella. 



5. No pure white markings. 



6. A costal hair-pencil at base of hind wing 2. rubidella (male). 



6. No costal hair-pencil. 



7. Fore wing strongly suffused with pink; third joint of palpus 

 with dark base and tip; three white bands, the first weak. 



2. rubidella (female) and 4. pudibundella. 



7. Fore wing with slight traces of pink or none; third joint of 



palpus with broad blackish base, the first white band of the 



other species obliterated 5. fungivorella. 



1. A. roseosuffusella Clemens. Palpus with third segment black, imperfectly 

 banded with white on basal half, the extreme tip white. Fore wing white, lightly 

 dusted with gray, with three blackish bands about as wide as the spaces between 

 them. First band strongly oblique outward, from costa at base, crossing fold, and 

 fading out; second parallel to it, running from costa at a third way out, abruptly 

 truncate in fold; third broader, transverse, at two- thirds way out to apex, with 

 pink spots before and beyond it at inner margin, and containing a large yellow- 

 brown spot or shade. Apical region nearly filled with a black patch, but leaving 

 a white spot at apex. Inner margin shaded with yellow-brown on basal half or 

 more. 10 mm. (bellella Walker). 



May to October; commonest in July and August. Caterpillar a leaf folder on 

 clover, also feeding on the flowers; also reported from sumach by Clemens, most 

 likely in error. 



Generally distributed and common. New York: Ithaca. 



2. A. rubidella Clemens. Fore wing pink, dusted with fuscous, and somewhat 

 shaded with yellow; head yellowish; palpus with third segment relatively short, 

 with three white bands, near base, before middle, and before tip, the tip black. 

 Fore wing with oblique fuscous bands, much like those of A. roseosuffusella, the 

 first one ending at fold, the third dark fuscous toward the costa, shading into 

 brownish yellow below and fading out on inner margin. Apex wholly shaded 

 with blackish, leaving no apical spot. Inner margin broadly shaded with brown- 

 ish yellow to the middle, interrupted with pink at a quarter way out. Thorax 

 fuscous. Hind wing of male with a hair-pencil. 8 mm. 



General in distribution; May. 



A. rubensella Chambers, generally considered a synonym, was described as having 

 the palptts white-tipped (perhaps damaged), the underlying ground color white 

 instead of pink, tongue brownish (usually gray in this group), bands of fore wing 

 brown, and thorax pale ochreous. 8 mm. Kentucky. 



3. A. molestella Zeller. Palpus with tbird segment as in pudibundella. Ground 

 of fore wing powdery gray, the paler scales white-tipped. Half of surface covered 

 by fasciae, which are even, chocolate brown; first fascia paling out to base, with a 

 couple of yellow dots; second broad, with a yellow spot in it below fold; third 

 parallel, nearly interrupted by a yellow spot over cell; two dark brown dots on 

 costa near apex; costal and dorsal fringe barred with pink in the base, the bars 

 invading the membrane, at least on the costa. First discal dot large, tangent 

 to second fascia; second obsolete; postmedial fascia followed by a black bar in 

 discal fold. 12 mm. 



District of Columbia in September; Texas. 



4. A. pudibundella Zeller. Hardly distinguishable from rubidella and the sev- 

 eral undescribed species closely related to it. Palpi pinkish white, with black bands 



