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Early spring. 



Oak Station (Alleghany County), Pennsylvania. 



2. E. ramapoella Kearfott. Palpi gray, dark-dusted, on outer side, as usual; 

 head paler. Pore wing somewhat streaked with hiteous; black points at middle 

 and at end of cell, more or less defined with pale yellow, and a slight dark 

 oblique streak running up from inner margin to beyond the more basal black point. 

 Wing outwardly blackish-dusted; the a"pical fringe quite dark gray. 13 mm. ■ 



Lighter than E. pimpinella and larger, shaded with luteous instead of the 

 peculiar reddish gray of E. pimpinella. 

 Ramapo, New York (type). 



3. E. pimpinella Murtfeldt. Powdery reddish gray; becoming almost chocolate 

 brown on costal half; with a couple of unpowdered areas on the middle of the 

 wing; sometimes with these areas extended, leaving .the powdery ground only on 

 the inner margin toward the base and an irregular, dominantly white, apical area 

 and costal fringe. Three ocellate discal dots in a series. Five or six blackish tufts 

 on the dorsal margin, regularly increasing in size toward the base. 9 mm. 



Bred from Umbelliferse. 

 Missouri. 



4. E. cicutaella Kearfott. Ground luteous; basal third of fore wing largely so, 

 but lightly strigose with black; outer two-thirds a mixture of brown, luteous, and 

 black, the brown mostly in the middle of the wing. Dark specimens showing the 

 brown more generally, especially, toward base of costa. Base usually contrast- 

 ingly pale to the naked eye, its outer boundary aligning with the largest dorsal 

 tuft. Two longitudinal, barlike, ocellate discal dots. 



Larva in flowers and seeds of Cicuta (LTrnbelliferse) . 

 New Jersey. 



5. E. canicinctella Clemens. Basal half of fore wing whitish; outer half fuscous; 

 the boundary slightly oblique outwardly; a postmedial, slightly irregular, whitish 

 band, better-defined on the outer side, followed by a raised black spot toward inner 

 margin. Fringe broad without tufts in it. 



I have seen only the unique type of this species; it probably does not belong 

 here, but to the Lavernidae (possibly to the genus Blastodacna) . 



II. Fore wing with only one really distinct scale tuft on inner margvn; antenna? 

 heavily pubescent, with reduced scaling; hind icing broad-lanceolate, with blunt 

 apex; fringe only twice as wide as membrane; M l5 M 2 , and M 3 separate. R short- 

 stalked. Fore wing with R^and R 5 separate. 



6. E. imperialella Busck. Straw yellow. Thorax and head darker; palpi fuscous 

 on outer side. Fore wing with a broad, oblique, ochreous shade extending from 

 a third way out on inner margin to middle of costa; some less oblique streaks 

 before apex and a more or less double blackish line in fringe beyond anal angle. 

 Hind wing pale gray with yellower fringe. 15 mm. 



June. 



Western Pennsylvania. 



9. ACROLEPIA Curtis 



Head moderately rough above; with ocelli; palpi upturned about to vertex, 

 slightly tapering, the end joint long; maxillary palpi apparently rather longer than 

 eye, slender, folded. Hind tibiae smooth-scaled. Venation as in Argyresthia; acces- 

 sory cell strongly marked; our species with fore wing a little falcate; Sc long; 

 hind wing rather trapezoidal, nearly as wide as fore wing; Mj and M 2 , M 3 and Cu, 

 stalked. Early stages not studied structurally. 



The genus is sometimes put in the family Tineidfe or Argyresthiidse, sometimes 

 in the Yponomeutidse or Plutellidse, and sometimes given family rank. It seems 



