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September. Very likely this species is rather generally distributed with its 

 food, tansy, but I find no authentic records. 

 Europe. 



2. P. anteliella Busck. Head and thorax pale fawn color; concolorous. Fore 

 wing darker reddish brown, two black streaks toward base, and a black discal dot; 

 a fine white line across apex and a white bar in fringe at apex. 



When fresh, this species shows the triangular palpal tuft, but it is easily lost. 

 12 mm. 

 New Jersey; western Pennsylvania. 



3. P. similiella Chambers. R and Mj of hind wing shortly stalked; palpus 

 rough. Fore wing with the yellow streaks irregular and anastomosing, leaving 

 a powdery band around the apex. Superficially, practically like the species of 

 Phthorimcea. but distinguishable by the venation and the more bushy palpus. 

 (Isophrictis Braun; solaniella Chambers, in part, not larva; piscipellis Zeller.) 



The larva breeds in heads of Rudbeckia hirta; pupating in the stem. Moth, 

 June to August. 

 Kentucky; Ohio; Texas; Oklahoma. 



4. P. busckiella Ely. Palpus with a triangular tuft; M 3 of hind wing lower 

 than in the other species, arising from middle of end of cell. Antenna yellowish; 

 palpus with second joint brown, third white, brown-shaded; head and tegulse 

 white; thorax darker. Fore wing light clay-color: two or three small, more or 

 less elongate, brown spots; hind wing smoky with paler fringe. 12-15 mm. 



June and July. This species looks like a Gelechia, but structurally belongs to 

 this series. 



32. AGNIPPE Chambers 



Palpi with second segment rough-scaled, third about as long. Fore wings with 

 10 or 11 veins, R x absent. M 1 long-stalked with M 3 . or absent, Cu 2 long. Hind wing 

 slightly broader, trapezoidal, pointed at apex, M. t absent, cell open, M 3 to Cu 2 

 evenly spaced. Fore wing with a tuft of raised scales in middle of fold. Moth 

 resting with tail raised, like many other Gelechiids. A reduction-form of 

 Reeurvaria. 



Key to tlie species 



Head dusted with black; M 2 present 1. bi-scolorella-. 



Head all white; M 2 lost 2. fuscopulvella. 



1. A. biscolorella Chambers. Antennae annulate. Head yellowish white. Vertex 

 dusted with brown at sides. Palpi mostly blackish, annulate. Thorax and base 

 of fore wings yellowish, with a blackish brown patch on front of thorax. Fore 

 wing blackish fuscous with bluish iridescence, middle to apex heavily dusted with 

 brown and some white. Tuft small, black and white. 12 mm. 



May. Larva possibly on Gleditschia. 

 Southern Ohio and Kentucky. 



2. A. fuscopulvella Chambers. Head white. Palpi yellowish fuscous at base 

 and near tip. Antennae annulate. Thorax and wings whitish yellow, densely 

 dusted with fuscous, duller than in the other species, leaving the black tuft con- 

 trasting. 11 mm. 



April. Rare, only one specimen seen. 

 Kentucky. 



33. STEREOMITA Braun 



Similar to Metzneria. Palpus with second segment thickened and slightly 

 tufted beneath; third equally long. Fore wing with one dorsal vein lost (M : or 



