Lepidopteea of New York and Neighboring States 617 



Caterpillar dark gray or greenish black, with granulose red-brown head and 

 yellow-brown cervical shield, and a large black and red subdorsal plate (ib) on 

 the mesothorax. Moth in June: 



East River, Connecticut, to Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. 



8. A. caryas Grote. Dark fuscous; thorax concolorous; base of fore wing some- 

 what paler. A slender pale-pinkish antemedial band beyond the scale ridge, but 

 no other pinkish or yellowish shading. 18 mm. 



June. Caterpillar a bud worm on Carya porcina in May, living in a slender 

 frass tube; greenish gray, with dark brown head, shining yellow-green cervical 

 shield, and light brown subdorsal plate on mesothorax. 



Illinois. "New York" (Grote). 



The original description and Ragonot's notes on the type make no mention of 

 sex scaling. As determined in the Barnes collection, the male has a short black 

 bar below the costa, followed by yellow scaling, and a streak the whole length of 

 the cell, its base overflowing the cell and touching A. The species should be bred 

 again from the characteristic larva. 



9. A. hebescella Hulst. Dull yellowish gray-brown; head and thorax concolorous; 

 scale ridge black; the other markings obscure. 18-20 mm. 



Larva on oak (apparently in a folded leaf), pupating in a large egg-shaped 

 cocoon. 



East River, Connecticut, to Texas. 



10. A. kearfottella Dyar. Similar to A. palliolella, with a large whitish basal 

 area, extending across the antemedial line to the middle of the wing, giving a 

 suggestion of A. indiginella, but without the black antemedial costal triangle. 

 Some reddish scaling about the scale ridge. 



July and August. Larva leathery, brown; in a somewhat flattened case of 

 grayish silk with some pellets of frass. Cocoon at the end of the case, oval, 2C 

 mm. by 6 mm. by 4 mm. Food, hickory. 



Distribution uncertain. New York : Ithaca. 



11. A. palliolella Ragonot. Dark mouse gray, becoming blackish on the middle 

 of the costa. Head, thorax, and base of fore wing typically white, somewhat 

 shaded with some buff or orange shading; the outer boundary nearly straight and 

 strongly oblique, to middle of inner margin. In a variety which commonly passes 

 for nebulella the base is nearly concolorous, leaving a reddish antemedial area on 

 the inner margin. 20 mm. (juglandis LeBaron; albocapitella Hulst, nebulella 

 Hulst, etc., not Riley ) . 



July. Larva on walnut and pecan. 



Ontario to Florida, Illinois, and Texas. 



The gray form of this species may be A, sylviella Ely, which is unknown to me. 



** Male ivithout black sex-scaling below. 



12. A. latifasciella Dyar. Superficially exactly like A. eliella, but without sex 

 scaling below. 19 mm. 



This species has passed for caryce in some collections. 



June and early July ; August. Larva on hickory. 



New Brighton, Pennsylvania; Maryland; Virginia; Missouri. 



13. A. normella Dyar. Pale gray with a slight reddish .suffusion; scale ridge 

 large and dark, with a slight pale reddish shade beyond it; a diffuse antemedial 

 costal gray triangle; costa and cell shaded with white before and beyond it, as far 

 out as the postmedial line, which is normal; discal dots black, contrasting, 

 separate. 19 mm. 



End of July and early August. 

 East River, Connecticut. 



14. A rubrifasciella Packard. Closely similar to A. comptoniella, but on the 

 average a little smaller, narrower-winged, with rather brighter markings, and 

 more frequently (but not always) with a red antemedial band. 21-24 mm. 



