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29. SITOTROGA Heinemann 



Antenna with a sparse pecten, otherwise practically like Metzneria. We have 

 only one, probably introduced, species, of Oriental affinity; the Angoumois grain 

 moth. 



1. S. cerealella Olivier. Fore wing silky luteous yellow; hind wing fuscous, 

 fringes brownish fuscous. Ordinarily without markings, though some moths show 

 a black discal dot and a streak in the fold, and some, streaky black scaling. 15 mm. 

 ( Anacampsis; Gelechia). 



Caterpillar stout, legless, white, with yellow head, breeding continuously in 

 stored grain. The moth flying at large in August. 



New York: Geneva, Ithaca, Albany; Smithtown, Long Island. 



30. METZNERIA Zeller 

 (Parasia) 



R 4 shortly, and R 5 long-stalked, with M 1 (fig. 170) ; the other veins separate. Hind 

 wing with all veins widely separate, R and M x somewhat divergent, M x and M, twice 

 as far apart as the others; anal region much reduced. 



This is a European genus of some size. We have one species probably intro- 

 duced with its food plant. 



1. M. lappella Linnaeus. Fore wing dull olive brown with paler yellowish shades 

 and streaks. Hind wing dark fuscous gray. 12-15 mm. 



May to August. Caterpillar stout, white, with black head and divided brown 

 cervical shield; legless; in burs of burdock, eating out the seeds and wintering as 

 larva. 



Europe; Canada to Pennsylvania. New York: Peru, Newcomb, Lewiston, 

 Ithaca, Katonah. 



31. PTYCERATA Ely 



(Pyncostola Meyrick ( ? ) ; Paltodora Meyrick, in part, not typical ; 

 Cleodora Curtis, not Peron and Lesueur, etc.) 



Palpus typically with a long triangular terminal scale-tuft on second segment; 

 in subgenus Isophrictis Meyrick with a looser brush of spreading hair, very loose 

 in anteliella and busckiella. Hind wing with R and Mj approximate or connate; 

 otherwise like Metzneria. 



Key to the species 



1. A white oblique costal streak running down from beginning of costal fringe. 



2. Head cream white 1. striatella. 



2. Head and thorax brown 2. anteliella. 



1. No such streak. 



2. Entire wing with white-tipped scales and longitudinal ochreous streaks. 



3. similiella. 



2. Whitish, with two or three blackish dots 4. busckiella. 



1. P. striatella Hiibner. Brown; a fine white streak extending obliquely across 

 apex, with two white costal dots beyond it; an oblique whitish streak at anal 

 angle, and more or less distinct pale longitudinal streaks. Fringe with a black 

 bar across apex. Hind wing fuscous. Head, including palpi and more or less of 

 thorax, contrasting, whitish. 12 mm. 



