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base of costa to costa near apex, defined above except at tbe tip with a white 

 streak; and containing three raised tufts. Costal area heavily mottled with 

 blackish, forming three oblique fascia, the outer sometimes meeting the longitudinal 

 streak. Dorsal region lighter gray, with three raised black tufts and three minute 

 ones along outer margin. 10 mm. (obliquestrigella Chambers?). 



June; August. Caterpillar on red cedar and ground pine (Juniperus), in a web 

 or eating out the sprays; pale green with light brown head, cervical shield, and true 

 legs; segments dorsally with pinkish open rectangles, filled with the ground color. 



Connecticut; New Jersey. 



7. R. gibsonella Kearfott. Similar to R. thujaella. Ground yellowish white, 

 heavily overshaded with black; the first fascia reaching to fold or beyond, second 

 broadening at middle of wing and sending out a long spur to meet the third, 

 which is angulate and reaches inner margin. Head whitish; palpus with two 

 bands on third segment, sometimes fused into a broad area, leaving only the base 

 and tip white; always rather dark. 11 mm. 



June. Larva on juniper in May. Head and cervical shield pale honey yellow. 



Ottawa; Quebec. 



(Number 8 is vacant.) 



II. Larvoe deciduous feeders. Moths without yellow tint. Palpus with third seg- 

 ment more slender them in group I, twice as long as eye, more than half of 

 its surface covered with two broad black fasciae, second segment mostly brown. 

 Face and scape white. No havr-pencil. 



9. R. crataegella Busck. No hair pencil. Wings shorter than usual; white, 

 dusted with black. Antennae annulate; palpi white, with two black bars on each 

 segment and white tip. Head powdery gray. Fore wing with two oblique dark 

 streaks from costa, the first reaching inner margin, but sometimes broken; the 

 second reaching to cell only; and a third angled on outer side and running to 

 below tip of second, in fold, followed by a white line; a broad blackish shade 

 running from its angle to the apex. Basal half of fringe powdered, outer half 

 pale, with a gray line. 12 mm. 



May to July. Larva on Crataegus. Probably a race of R. nanella of Europe. 

 New Hampshire to District of Columbia and Ohio. New York: East Aurora, 

 Batavia, Albany. 



10. R. robiniella Fitch. Powdery fuscous gray, somewhat mottled, with only 

 the angulate and incomplete postmedial line pure white. Palpi with outer side 

 of second segme-t fuscous, except at tip, inner side with two bands indicated; third 

 segment with two black annuli. Fore wing with a blackish bar extending up and 

 out from basal angle; a small blackish costal spot before middle, and a larger 

 one before the postmedial band; a raised black dot beyond middle of cell; another 

 in fold at three-fourths way to apex. Head pale. 7 mm. (robmiella Fitch, imago, 

 not larva; fuscopallidella, robinicefoliella Chambers). 



Caterpillar pale greenish; between two leaflets of locust. 



Eastern United States south to Texas and north to District of Columbia. 



11. R. quercivorella Chambers. Very irregularly dusted and mottled with black 

 on white, leaving most of the white along costa and inner margin, and forming 

 a more or less distinct, but quite irregular, longitudinal median fascia, at least 

 toward base. Head powdery gray; male with a large, spreading, yellow pencil 

 at anal angle. 11 mm. (gilviscopella Zeller.) 



Larva on oak, in a silken tube on the under side of a leaf; white with red spots. 

 Moth in June. 



12. R. dorsivittella Zeller. Palpi annulate, tip white; face white; vertex darker, 

 powdery; thorax and fore wing powdery dark brown and white, the dark pre- 

 dominant; inner margin pale, a whitish streak near base of costa, a white spot 



