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similar straight subterininal bar on inner half of wings only. Speculum obscure, 

 high in the wing; black line in base of fringe clean-cut., and cut with white at the 

 notch. 15 mm. 



July. Types only seen, male and female. 



Trenton, Ontario; Chicago, Illinois. 



20. L. fletcherana Kearfott. Basal half of wing and body dirty white; outer 

 half a mixture of blackish and steel-blue, with some wood-brown and a little 

 whitish scaling: the terminal line normally brown. Line in base of fringe con- 

 tinuous, black, interrupted at notch with white. Hind wing fuscous, paler at base. 

 13 mm. 



June. 



Ottawa, Canada. A paler variety occurs in Washington. 



21. L. albimaculana Fernald. Fuscous gray; costal edge black, irregularly 

 barred with white, the white bars fading into the grayish ground below. Inner 

 margin heavily shaded with black, especially beyond the white dorsal patch, which 

 is moderate in size, rarely divided into two striae, and extends obliquely out and 

 up to middle of wing. Outer part of wing with some yellowish tint; the lead- 

 colored stripes broken and irregular, w^th irregular black spots between them 

 representing the speculum. 8-12 mm. (articulatana Kearfott). 



April 30. 



Maine to Manitoba. 



22. L. gallaesaliciana Riley. White. Head and thorax white; abdomen dark 

 gray. Fore wing irregularly spotted with gray, shading into yellow brown or 

 golden at 'the apex; the gray gathering to form a patch on outer margin, a third 

 the length of the wing on the inner margin, but often hardly reaching the costa; 

 and an antemedial patch toward inner margin. Speculum with heavy lead- 

 colored bands, with some heavy black dots before and within it. Hind wing light 

 gray, paler, and striate with dark gray beneath. 12 mm. 



June and July. Larva in a slender twig-gall on willow, perhaps inquiline. 



This species has been generally confused with a western Epinotia which has a 

 costal fold in the male. The hind wing has R and M 1; and M 3 and CUj short- 

 stalked and M 2 more curved than usual in Laspeyresia. 



Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, to Missouri. New York: Peru, Big Indian 

 Valley. 



ft Male with a patch of rough scaling on upper side of hind wing and one on 



under side of fore wing. 



23. L. pyricolana Murtfeldt. Dark fuscous; head and palpi dark; fore wing with 

 several transverse lead-gray fascise, the median ones nearly complete. Speculum 

 with two lead-gray bars, parallel to outer margin, and also connected with oblique 

 fasciae running down from the costa. A distinct series of black dots or short 

 bars in the speculum, and between the speculum and the costa, extending most of 

 the width of the wing. Basal line in fringe unbroken. Hind wing in male light 

 gray, no darker at the margin, with a blackish sex-patch covering most of cell 

 and extending a little beyond it; in female blackish. Fringe gray. 10 mm. 

 Male usually sjnaller. (Penthina cyanana Murtfeldt in part, by type lot; packardi 

 of collections; Steganoptycha, Epinotia.) 



May and June; August; . Three broods. Larva green, (?) the spring 



brood boring into the buds of rose and blasting them; the later broods normally 

 feeding on the leaves. Pupa under the edge of a leaf folded over, or boring into 

 pith. Also with similar habits on apple and peach. The larva is a little doubtful 

 on account of confusion with O, cyanana, but the dates and food plants are certain. 



