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July and August. Caterpillar on oak. 



New Jersey; District of Columbia to Kansas and Texas. 



There is a closely related species on Polygonum associated with A. dbsconditella. 



10. A. physaliella Chambers. Practically identical with A. minimella, but with 

 the pale lower part of the face sharply denned, and contrastingly pale. 9 mm. 



May; July. Caterpillar a leaf -miner on under side of leaves of Physalis. Green 

 with yellow head and cervical shield; at maturity becoming crimson with greenish 

 head and cervical shield; cocoon outside the mine. The moth of the second brood 

 emerging the next spring. 



Kentucky; Texas. 



11. A. disconotella Chambers. Light dull ochreous, somewhat dusted with gray. 

 Palpus brown, apex of second segment pale, third with a broad blackish band 

 at middle, at least in outer side. Fore wing with a horizontal elliptical black 

 spot at end of cell, and a smaller spot below costa half way to base. 8 mm. 



June. Larva in stem of raspberry. 



District of Columbia; Kentucky; Mississippi. 



12. A. gilvolineella Clemens. Superficially very close to Paltodora striatella, 

 but with simple palpi. Palpus with second segment dark on basal half and white 

 on outer half within, mostly black outwardly. Fore wing pale yellowish, over- 

 laid with fuscous brown, the outer part rather darkened. Apex crossed by a fine 

 pale line running to a pale shade on outer margin. Discal dot black, distinct; 

 fringe with a black basal line, cut by the pale terminal bars. Antennae dark. 

 There may be a black claviform spot also. 12 mm. 



July. 



Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Hazelton, Easton. 



13. A. angustipennella Clemens. Similar to A. gilvolmeella, head and thorax 

 and base of fore wing nearly white ; outer part light brown. Antennae white on basal 

 two-thirds, fuscous-barred at tip; palpus white, with a black bar on second segment 

 and apical half of third segment black, except extreme tip. Fore wing with some 

 longitudinal brown streaks near base, dot at end of cell smaller than in the 

 preceding species, and claviform dot obsolete; postmedial line shorter and without 

 a pale spot at its apex. 12 mm. (kearfottella Busck.) 



July. 



New Jersey to Ohio. 



14. A. quinquepunctella Busck. Antennae light fuscous, annulate with luteous. 

 Palpi with second segment fuscous with white apex, third white with fuscous 

 apex. Face whitish, head and thorax dull luteous; fore wing luteous, with gray- 

 ish dusting, becoming fuscous outwardly, with five black spots on disc, four in 

 a rhomb (the basal sometimes weak) and one beyond. Hind wing paler. 12 mm. 



June. 



Pennsylvania. 



An apparently identical species occurs in southern California. 



15. A. robusta Braun. Dull ochreous, rather densely overlaid with purplish fus- 

 cous dusting, especially toward apex of fore wing. Palpus blackish, apical half 

 of third segment, and sometimes extreme apex of second, white, extreme apex 

 of third sometimes black. Base of antenna fuscous, annulate with white, apex 

 blackish, with apical segment, and fifth and tenth segments from apex, white. 

 Fore wing with a pale costo-apical streak, an elongate black discal dot and faint 

 dark shades; fringe with a broken line in base. 11-12 mm. 



Larva at first forming a small, transparent blotch mine in Scirpus atrovirens; 

 then a linear green mine, and finally a broader transparent portion. Larva in the 

 spring; moth in June. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



