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The antenna is as in normal Salebria, with a large scale tuft, but the venation 

 places the species here, and the palpi are even longer and more oblique than in 

 E. petrellus. 



The female variety tartarella Zeller is dwarf and wholly dark gray (carbonella 

 Hulst). Female variety incautella Zeller is similar to the normal male. The 

 amount of the whitish powdering on the fuscous border varies from practically 

 none to a complete suffusion. 



Southern States, south to Chili, straying north to Maine. 



Pyla aeneoviridella Ragonot was described from New York in error; the type 

 was from Wyoming. 



91. EPISCHNIA Hiibner 



Palpi with stout oblique second segment; third segment long and porrect; 

 maxillary palpi moderate, scaled; male antennae, in our species, dentate, with a 

 slight sinus at the base of the shaft. Fore wing exceptionally long and narrow, 

 with normal venation, smooth; hind wing with discocellular closely parallel to 

 lower side of cell from origin of Cu 2 to origin of Cu^ 



1. E. boisduvaliella Guenee. Fore wing typically pinkish ochreous, a little 

 shaded with blackish and dusted with blackish along outer margin. Costa con- 

 trasting, white, from just beyond base to apex, the lower boundary practically 

 straight and running through upper discal dot. Postmedial line usually indi- 

 cated by a few blackish striae; lower discal dot black; the other markings obso- 

 lete. 18-26 mm. (farrella Curtis, lafauryella Constant, etc.) 



In variety albocostalis Hulst, the ground is dark fuscous, heavily dusted with 

 white toward inner margin and apex, and the white costal stripe becomes diffuse 

 and fades out at the apex. 



Larva russet, with a greenish tint, and with obscure lateral reddish strige; 

 yellow-green beneath; in pods of Leguminosse (Ononis, Anthyllis, Lotus, Astraga- 

 lus), hibernating full-grown; moth in July. 



New Hampshire and Massachusetts to British Columbia and Texas; Eurasia. 



92. ETIELLA Zeller 



Palpi with second joint very long, the lower side, and upper side except at 

 extreme base, straight and regularly converging; third segment rather short, fine, 

 and porrect; maxillary palpi with a plume, concealed in a groove in the second 

 joint of the labials. Male antenna? hardly notched, with a heavy tuft of dark 

 gray scales on inner side of shaft near base, and a tuft of finer pale hair scales on 

 outer side, lying against it. Fore wing very narrow, with a slightly raised golden 

 antemedial bar; hind wing ample, discocellular of type 3 (fig. 382) angulate at 

 a point halfway between Cu a and Cu 2) then approximate to lower side of cell. 



1. E. zinckenella Treitschke. Light gray, dusted heavily with light pinkish 

 ochreous; a white costal stripe from base to apex, leaving the costal edge gray in 

 the middle of the wing; antemedial band yellow, just beyond the deeper orange 

 raised ridge; both cut off by the white costa. 18-25 mm. (exiella Treitschke, etc.). 



Larva (fig. 394) in pods of Leguminosae, sometimes injurious. Apple-green, red- 

 dish, or brown; tubercles yellow, with a black setigerous puncture; no enlarged 

 one on mesotliorax. Head amber yellow with a brown posterior line; prothorax 

 green with three jairs of black dots, the lateral ones in a reddish shade. 



World-wide, but rare in this country. 



93. MELITARA Walker 



(Megaphycis Grote) 



Tongue short, weak, not always exposed between the bases of the palpi ; antennae 

 not modified at base, pectinate in male, subpectinate in female; palpi masaive, 



