Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States 631 



1. E. franconiella Hulst. Light gray, strigose, dusted, and shaded on a white 

 base, the costa paler; antemedial line obscure; discal spot rather H-shaped (turned 

 on its side), postmedial line oblique, obscure, and coarsely toothed; terminal dots 

 blackish, a little diffuse. 25 mm. 



Franconia, New Hampshire. 



2. E. ostricolorella Hulst. Dark gray, suffused with dull Indian red; the base 

 mostly reddish; antemedial line at middle of wing; diffuse, pale, nearly even, 

 a little bent out at inner margin; postmedial line rather beyond three -fourths, 

 more erect than outer margin, pale and diffuse, somewhat toothed opposite lower 

 angle of cell; terminal line blackish, almost continuous, discal spot obscure. 

 28 mm. 



Larva mining in the bark of the trunk of tulip tree, usually near the ground, 

 and only where the bark is damp; maturing in the spring. Moth from May to 

 July. 



New York (Hulst). Was described from the State. Type only seen. 



3. E. ochrifrontella Zeller. Fuscous gray, the lines luteous or indicated by 

 white powdering; ground a little powdery at end of cell and along outer margin; 

 base and sometimes median area suffused with reddish. Antemedial line broad- 

 ened and more diffuse; postmedial line clearer, a little wavy, a little more oblique 

 than in E. ostricolorella. 12 mm. 



May; July and August. 



New York to Iowa. New York: Ithaca. 



4. .E. semifuneralis Walker. Median area blackish, sometimes dusted or mottled 

 on a white ground. Basal half and outer margin light reddish gray, heavily 

 dusted with white, especially along the outer margin and on the costal half of 

 the base. Lines white, powdery, wavy, normal, the antemedial line near the 

 middle of the wing. 20-25 mm. (pallulella Hulst, vmpletella Zeller). 



Larva under bark of peach and plum; sometimes injurious. 



Massachusetts to Colorado and south. New York: Lancaster (VanDuzee), Kin- 

 derhook. 



5. E. inornatella Hulst. White, lightly dusted with gray; two or three black- 

 ish dots at middle of wing representing the antemedial line, and four or five the 

 postmedial line; two discal dots. 20 mm. 



May. 



Anglesea, New Jersey. 



96. VITULA Ragonot 



Similar to Euzophera. Front tufted; wings of male with a tuft of scales at 

 base of costa below; M 2 and M s stalked; hind wing with cell short; discocellular 

 vein not much curved; M 2+3 and CUj connate or nearly so; Co, at one third the 

 length of the wing. 



1. V. edmandsii Packard. Gray, powdery, somewhat shaded with brownish; first 

 line well toward middle of wing, oblique, a little wavy, diffuse, broad and blackish; 

 postmedial line at four-fifths way to apex, paler, denned with fuscous, diffuse, a 

 little irregular, and angled opposite lower angle of cell; a dark discal bar. 

 20 mm. 



June to October. Larva (fig. 395) in bumblebee nests. 



Generally distributed. New York: Buffalo, Ithaca. 



97. LMTIL1A Ragonot 

 (Dakruma Comstock) 



Tongue weak; labial palpi oblique, reaching about to vertex; maxillary palpi 

 normal; front smooth; male antennae ciliate; fore wing smooth, with Rj free, M 2 

 and M 3 stalked, CUj from angle of cell; hind wing with discocellular moderately 

 curved, Cu 2 arising from near angle of cell; M 2 and M 3 and CUj long-stalked; Sc 

 and R fused to very near apex. 



