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porrect, the joints with separate short tufts on under side, that on the first the 

 largest. Maxillary palpi large, flattened against the face. Fore wing rather 

 narrow, with short erect outer margin- venation normal; M 2 and M 3 stalked. Hind 

 wing with Sc approximate to R; M 2 wanting; M 3 shortly stalked, discocellular of 

 type 2 (meeting lower side of cell at 60 degrees; Cu 2 given off at two -fifths length 

 of wing). 



Very large species, the larva boring in the phyllodia of Cacti, and more or less 

 social. Ours works in the prickly pear, Opuntia. 



1. M. prodenialis Walker. Whitish, shaded with mouse gray, except toward the 

 costa; antemedial line with outer component strong, blackish, with a long tooth 

 out on fold, the inner line faint, but traceable at the inner margin; postmedial 

 line double, blackish, fading out below, strongly dentate except toward costa. A 

 vertical black discal bar, and black terminal dots. 27-40 mm. Female larger. 



End of July. 



Southern New York to Florida and Texas; on the barrens northward. 



94. ZOPHODIA Hiibner 

 (Pempelia, in part; Dakruma Grote) 



Front rounded out; antennae nearly simple; tongue strong; palpi porrect, 

 thickly and evenly scaled; more oblique in female. Maxillary palpi simple; vena- 

 tion about like that of Melitara; the fore wing narrower, with more oblique outer 

 margin. 



1. Z. grossulariae Riley. Brownish gray, whitish toward costa; antemedial line 

 erect, dentate, forming a W; postmedial line oblique and nearly straight to M 2 , then 

 dentate to inner margin. Wing more or less striate, especially toward base. 

 Male much less contrastingly marked than female. 25 mm. (turoatella Grote.) 

 (H. p. 411 f. 230.) 



Larva injurious to currants and gooseberries, feeding on the berries and webbing 

 them together. 



Canada and Maine to Illinois. New York: Lancaster (VanDuzee). 



2. Z. bella Hulst. Similar to Z. grossula/rice, powdery pale gray; more strigose; 

 antemedial line represented by a diffuse dark shade, running out at middle and 

 on inner margin; postmedial line strongly oblique with a single large tooth at 

 Mo. 28 mm. 



Massachusetts. 



Typically the two lines of the postmedial line are about equal, but the inner is 

 much stronger in the Colorado form. 



95. EUZOPHERA Zeller 



Palpi erect, second joint scaled, third erect and acuminate; maxillary palpi 

 broad-scaled and appressed to front. Fore wing (fig. 384) with arched costa and 

 rounded apex, CUj well separated, M 2 and M, long-stalked; R 2 rarely stalked. Hind 

 wing with Sc strongly anastomosing with R, discocellular vein moderately curved; 

 M 2 stalked or connate with CUj. 



Key to the species 



1. Lines represented by blackish dots 5. inomatella. 



1. Lines, at least the postmedial one, clear and continuous. 

 2. First line well before middle of wing; nearly straight and vertical, almost 



obsolete 1 . franconiella. 



2. First line close to middle of wing, distinct, pale; the wing reddish before it. 

 3. Median area broadly fuscous, shaded with red; 28 mm. . . .2. ostricolorella. 

 3. Median area crisply dusted with black on white; 22 mm. .4. semifuneralis. 

 3. Median area blackish, or suffused with red-brown; 12 mm. 



3. ochrifrontella 



