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1. L. circumscriptella Zeller. Head, including palpi, thorax, and basal half of 

 fore wing, white; antennae blackish, with tip of scape white. Outer half of fore 

 wing typically rusty-brown (gray-brown in the more northern race). Costal edge 

 brown all the way to the apex, broadly brown at base, the area widening into a 

 triangle at a fourth way out and then very narrow to middle; a white costal 

 fascia at three-fourths way to apex, typically connected by a curved white line 

 with the white at the middle of the wing, where there is a black tuft above and 

 below it. 9-12 mm.; larger northward. 



June to October. Larva in seed-capsules of Oenothera, in August. 

 Southern States, north to southern New Jersey, Illinois, and Missouri. 



2. L. definitella Zeller, Similar to L. circumscriptella; scape white; palpus with 

 brown outer side of second segment; fore wing with the dark part fuscous brown, 

 apical fourth white, with erect denticulate inner boundary, crossed by a blackish 

 fascia from just below apex to anal angle, leaving a narrow irregular marginal 

 white band; fringe grayish, with some white scaling at apex. 15 mm. (unicrista- 

 tella Chambers; ruficristatella of the New Jersey list). 



July and August. 



Southern New Jersey; Texas. 



3. L. murtfeldtella Chambers. Head, palpi, and thorax white, the palpus with 

 two narrow black bars on the third segment. Fore wing powdery gray (black on 

 white) and light wood-brown; a semicircular white patch on basal fourth of inner 

 margin, with a black tuft on its outer edge, a smaller patch before middle; with 

 a large black tuft, and a small white and black tuft in fold at three-fourths way 

 to apex; small black and white tufts at middle and end of cell, the outer one 

 sometimes extended into a black streak, and a similar black streak in the discal 

 fold beyond it, opposite a white costal spot. 



October. Larva in buds of OEnothera ; dull brownish green, shaded with red, with 

 brown head and plates. 



Kentucky; Missouri; Colorado; Texas. 



4. L. stellella Busck. Similar to L. brevivittella but more mottled looking; 

 antennae unicolored, dark brown; palpi powdery, with a black ring near tip of third 

 segment. Head and thorax light ochreous; face silver white; fore wings light 

 ochreous mottled with brown and black scales, costal edge evenly mottled with 

 black and apical part evenly sprinkled with black scales; two indistinct oblique 

 light brown shades crossing the wing, from base and middle of costa; six raised 

 ochreous tufts, in cell and below fold, the middle one of the lower row the largest, 

 terminating in black scales, forming the most contrasting markings. 



August to October, more rarely in the spring. Larva in CEnothera; in the buds, 

 flowers, and seed-capsules; maturing in August. Light yellow, transversely banded 

 with pink; with brown head. 



Ontario to District of Columbia. 



L. . Head, thorax, and fore wing gray (black powdering on a 



white ground. Palpus with second segment scaled with gray and black; third 

 segment black, with fascite: the base lighter out to the first fascia, but half covered 

 with a larger triangular dark brown area resting on the costa. Antemedial fascia 

 defined beyond by a couple of black tufts ; outer three-fifths of wing darker, and 

 heavily scaled with wood-brown and chocolate brown ; with a black shade through 

 outer part of cell, and a vague one beyond the postmedial line to the apex; post- 

 medial line followed by black scales on the discal fold and a black tuft in the 

 submedian fold. 9 mm. 



October to A] nil. 



New York: Ithaca. 



.3. L. brevivittella Clemens. Wood-brown, the scales of fore wing and thorax 

 finely white-tipped, those of head mostly solid brown. Palpus grayish with a 

 heavy black bar on third segment and black tip.' Fore wing nearly evenly colored, 

 lint shaded with grayer and yellower brown; short, longitudinal black dashes in 



