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2. Male antennae without notch. 



3. Even, dark mouse gray, with faint darker dots 11. funebra. 



3. Paler, more or less dusted with white. 



4. Basal dash present 14. zelleriella. 



4. No basal dash. 



5. Evener, antemedial band distinct toward costa and inner margin, 



and pointing well before orbicular spot punctiferella. 



5. Rougher looking; antemedial band, when distinct, with its two halves 

 pointing directly to orbicular 16. tartarella. 



I. Notch on male antennae deeper than width of shaft, outwardly distorting the 



shaft; cilia as wide as shaft. 



1. H. dives Dietz. Mouse gray, the costa distinctly browner; black discal dots 

 only distinct; outer margin and fringe vaguely barred; no white-tipped scales. 

 16-19 mm. 



July. 



Toronto, Ontario; New York; Pennsylvania; Indiana. 



Var. basipallidella Dietz has a distinctly paler basal two-fifths, with angled outer 

 boundary; and the first discal dot indicated at its angle. 

 New Hampshire; Cohasset, Massachusetts; Pennsylvania. 



2. H. aphidiella Walsingham. Similar to H. dives, many scales white-tipped, 

 defining a vague pale antemedial region; base and middle of costa solid dark; 

 also orbicular and discal dots, some apical shades, and a vague bar on Cu out- 

 wardly. 13 mm. 



July. Larva in a Phylloxera gall on Carya. 

 District of Columbia; New York: Pock City. 



3. H. confluentella Dietz. Ground pure white, crisply dusted and mottled with 

 black. Base black, thorax with black anterior and posterior bars; antemedial 

 fascia broad, complete, covering orbicular, angled out at middle; discal dots and 

 postmedial bands fused into a Y-shaped black fascia, which may break into two 

 costal spots and a discal and dorsal bar, or form two anastomosing bands, enclos- 

 ing a pale spot beyond end of cell. Some black terminal suffusion. 



June and July. Larva on pitch pine, associated with Rhyacionia frustrana and 

 Recurvaria. 



Central New York; Pennsylvania; Massachusetts. 



II. Notch moderate, not as deep as width of middle part of shaft; shaft stouter, 



with cilia about half as long as width of segments. 



4. H. purpurocomella Clemens. Mouse gray, dusted with paler and darker, with 

 distinct first and second discal dots only; very slight purple iridescence. 18 mm. 



June. 



Pennsylvania; Maryland. New York: Rock City, Vandalia. 



5. H. ochrocephala Dietz. Mouse gray. Head and collar clay-color; strongly 

 contrasting; middle half of thorax clay-color; front and back grayish; tegube 

 clay-color, with gray spot and dusting; base of fore wings clay-color, the wing 

 with obscure orbicular and outer discal dots, not defined with pale. 16 mm. 



. August. Type only seen. 

 Maryland; West Virginia. 



6. H. chalcofrontella Clemens. Typically clay-color, more or less dusted with 

 blackish; orbicular a black dot, with a blackish shade before it on costa and two 

 obliquely placed and more or less confluent patches just beyond it on dorsal half, 

 below Cu; two black discal dots, a blackish patch between the lower one and its 

 anal angle; a curved blackish band half way between end of cell and apex, curving 

 in below along outer margin and reaching nearly or quite to the anal patch. 

 More or less distinct blackish terminal dots around apex. Fringe and hind wing 



