BIOLOGIA
CENTRALI-AMERICANA.
INSECTA.
LEPIDOPTERA-HETEROCERA.
Vou. IV.
TINEINA, PTEROPHORINA, ORNEODINA, AND
PYRALIDINA ann HEPIALINA (part.).
BY THE
Ricut Hoy. Lorp WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
1909-1915.
CONTENTS
OF VOL. IV.
Page CorRIGENDA - --------- - iv INTRODUCTION . . «2 6 ee Vv TINEINA, Lavernidae - ------ 1, 405, 458 Gelechiadae . . 18, 406 Oecophoridae —- - —- —- - - — + 117,417 Jthmiadae .. 148, 428 Blastobasidae - - ~ - - -~---- 148 Stenomidae . 1538, 424: [Aegeriadae**] ----~-~--- 190 [Cossidae*] . 204: Arrhenophanidae ~ —- ~ - — - 204, 433 Sparganothidae. ; 206, 430 Olethreutidae-— - ------ 224, 430 Tortricidae . 267,430 Phaloniadae - - - - --- - 294, 431 Carposinidae 299 Hemerophilidae— —- - —-- - - 300, 431 Coleophoridae 2. ee e819 Heliodinidae --------- 320
* Previously enumerated in Vol. I-IT. + To be added to those enumerated in Vol. IT.
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Page Tinera (continued).
Hyponomeutidae 321
Phyllorycteridae --——-~——-—--— 336
Tineidae eee . Bde, 433
Acrolophidae - ---—-—--—-~-—- (875
Nemophoridae . 402 PrEROPHORINA.
Pterophoridae—— ---~---- 434
Agdistidae . 448 ORNEODINA. .
Orneodidae --- -- ---~--- 449 PYRALIDINA.
Pyraustidae } 452 HEPIALINA.
[Hepialidae*] -~--~---- 457 Postscrivt (Tiwvzrw) 458 InDEX ---------7- 7 rCCU 459 PhaTES . 2 ee ee ee I-X
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Cathegesis. Ho.cocera. CRYPTOLECHIA. Phalaena. SoroLorua. PILANAPHORA. auriciliella.
isonymous.
INTRODUCTION.
Tuis treatise on the Tineina of Central America, although it bears my name, is the combined work of three specialists, of whom the other two have assuredly borne a greater burden of critical labour than myself. Had it not been for the conscientious zeal and ability with which they have applied themselves to the task of coordinating the structural characters on which the classification here adopted has been based, the prospect of imparting full scientific value to this part of the ‘Biologia’ would have been remote. In thanking Mr. August Busck for the invaluable assistance he has rendered, J must not omit also my acknowledgments to Dr. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, who was good enough to grant the necessary permission and to spare his services for some months for this purpose. I regard this as another proof of that open-minded liberality which I have personally found to be an almost invariable attribute of American men of Science.
I can only hope that the study of much accumulated material to which he could not have access in the United States, and especially the examination of the types of many important genera in my collections, may have afforded Mr. Busck some slight return for his labour and for having given me the advantage of that very special knowledge of the North American fauna which he alone could bring to bear upon my task. I had written the majority of the descriptions of species several years ago, many of them during absences from home without access to books or collections ; consequently but few had been placed with certainty in their proper genera until my assistant, Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, was able to examine and arrange them. When the more serious work was commenced, it became at once apparent that the lines of classification hitherto adopted, whether in Europe or America, were too involved and incomplete to be safely relied upon in dealing with a fauna practically unknown in relation to this special group of the Lepidoptera, and it was decided to correlate the various systems and to revise the limits of hitherto-accepted family- divisions, continuing the work already done for me by Mr. Durrant in connection with
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a study of the Microlepidoptera of Tenerife published in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London’ [1907 911-1028 Pl. 51-3 (1908) ].
With this object the voluminous publications of Mr. Edward Meyrick on Australian as well as on European and Asiatic Zineina were again carefully consulted. My colleagues and myself have derived the utmost assistance now as in the past from his careful and systematic work. Indeed, whatever criticism may be brought to bear on its details, that work has undoubtedly supplied the guiding principles on which improve- ments in classification have been and may be arrived at in proportion to the amount of new material becoming from time to time available for further study. Mr. Busck and Mr. Durrant have been jointly engaged in a minute examination of a very large number of the types of species in my collections from all parts of the world, in making microscopic slides, and tabulating the numerous genera previously known, as well as those now first described, in a manmer which it is hoped may be found to provide a sufficiently workable key to their structure and development. Mr. Busck has also supplied further material acquired since his return to America. .
In any case the value of co-operation in such work must necessarily be great. No uncertainty need exist in future as to what is the precise meaning of the terms used by leading authors on either side of the Atlantic; there cannot fail to be increased confidence between them in the knowledge that both are working on similar lines— their descriptions must be rendered in every way more intelligible to each other and, we may hope, more precise.
There has long been a growing conviction that, for generic purposes at least, secondary sexual characters so mach in repute with the older writers could not be relied upon, and in this treatise these have been discarded in favour of distinctions found in both sexes. It is perhaps the first occasion on which this principle has been consistently applied to the classification of the Tineina as a whole. Its adoption has necessarily involved the suppression of a very large number of generic subdivisions, and of the names by which they have been distinguished. ‘his will at first be regarded as a very radical and perhaps presumptuous reform, especially .as here exemplified in the Stenomidae, Acrolophidae, Tortricidae, etc., but, when the modifi- cations of structure on which genera have hitherto been based in these and other families are carefully examined in relation to the vast number of forms in a great continental fauna, they are found to blend one into another by such infinitesimal gradations as to impede rather than to assist a conscientious worker. The genus Felderia, resting upon the strongly bipectinate antennae of the male, and some of Mr. Meyrick’s genera of Oecophoridae, founded upon differences in the length of the antennal ciliations, are cases in point. ‘These characters are modified by such
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innumerable and minute variations as to be quite unreliable for the purpose of logical differentiation.
In the Acrolophidae again, as already pointed out (vide pp. 378-80), the position and length of the male palpi, which had been greatly relied upon, vary by the most gradual and perplexing stages, so that it may well be said in words which I extract from a letter in English long since received from the late Professor Zeller “the passages from which to it” form a chain of evidence too strong to be broken down in any attempt to separate extreme forms.
In the Tortricidae the costal fold, although a purely sexual character, was a convenient mark of recognition frequently regarded as of generic value ; but this occurs sporadically among many species which, although undoubtedly distinct, present no other structural peculiarities to justify their inclusion in different genera—notwith- standing the fact that this character is apparently consistent in whichever species may possess it.
Central American representatives of the Zineina are to be found in at. least 22 families, of which the Gelechiadae with 228 species, and the Stenomidae with 144, afford more abundant examples than others. Among these the Gelechiadae may be said to extend in approximately equal numbers to north and south, although the southern or South American forms are for the most part distinguished from those of the United States and Canada by their affinities to such genera as Strodisia Clms., Anacampsis Crt., and Dichomeris Hb., the first of these unrepresented in Europe, whereas the northern forms are more obviously allied to those of the European fauna. The Stenomidae, again, accompany the Gelechiadae in both directions, but tend strongly to represent the southern rather than the northern fauna, and the same may be said of the Hyponomeutidae ; whereas the Vemophoridae, well represented in more northern latitudes, vanish entirely to the south of Panama, reappearing in certain limited forms to the far south of the continent. The Acrolophidae, strictly confined to the two American continents and to the West Indian Islands, are perhaps pre-eminently tropical, but with considerable southern and northern extension—this very distinctly recognisable family has afforded strong evidence in favour of discarding secondary sexual characters when determining the limitation of genera. The Acrolophidce, after an immense amount of careful work involving the examination of many hundreds of specimens, are found to consist practically of one large genus, represented by many species, in some of which the neuration is so variable as to forbid the establishment of genera upon the numbers, position, or furcation of veins in the radial or median series of the forewings. The species can, however, be distinguished inter se by the length and position of the labial palpi, by the structure of the antennae, and by the
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form of the genitalia; but all these are secondary sexual characters, and no single character, or combination of characters, is found sufficiently constant throughout any assemblage of species to justify the establishment of a recognisable genus, with the exception of Apoclisis, proposed on account of the peculiarity of the cubital veins of the forewings, and Urbara Wkr., which possesses the same cubital neuration, but is in other respects even more distinct from the typical forms. Greater or less degrees of structural difference are accompanied with remarkable and confusing similarity of markings and general appearance. In the case of the genitalia, the divergences . might even convey an impression that they: have been evolved to prohibit inter-— breeding in instances where, without such precautions, confusion would be expected to occur. Some of these conclusions were not only surprising, but disappointing to a small committee decidedly predisposed to the retention and establishment of ‘separate genera, and we were constrained to admit that if any one of our number, at a distance from the others, had ventured upon such a bold course of amalgamation as has been finally adopted, he might well have been in danger of being regarded by the other two as an entomological crank, whose destructive work served only to stimulate their own preferably constructive tendencies. If any safety is to be found in numbers, we may claim at least the advantage of unanimity, until good evidence can be produced to upset our conclusions, and Mr. Meyrick’s latest papers
give us good ground for claiming a general concurrence on his part.
It was inevitable that in the course of this study much attention had to be given to questions of nomenclature, and, being responsible for the code known as the ‘ Merton Rules,’ Mr. Durrant and myself were anxious to ascertain on what grounds the members of a recent Zoological Congress had adopted what seemed to be a somewhat arbitrary system of selecting and maintaining Generic names by summary fixation of types without due regard for previous work done by critical authors. The rule that the Type of a genus cannot be regarded as fixed until it has been actually and definitely specified is now being largely adopted in America and perhaps elsewhere, but it is by | no means clear that those who accept this code were made fully acquainted with the reasonable objections to such a course.
The main object of any Rules should surely be to secure priority and uniformity: priority not only for names, but for all published results of critical study; uniformity not by mere arbitrary decision, but by the application of unvarying principles which, consistently followed, could only lead to one definite result in each case—a_ result which, while securing priority in the fullest degree, should preserve for each worker the credit of his work until it could be proved to be incorrect.
The rock on which the greatest split seems to have occurred has been the adoption
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of Hiibner’s genera by Stephens in 1834-5. Stephens, admittedly dealing with a local fauna—that of Great Britain,—interpreted many of Hiibner’s genera by the light of such knowledge as he possessed, and it has been contended that he did not claim to be revising the ‘ Verzeichniss’ when he adopted Hiibner’s generic names and applied them to such British species as he recognized among Hiibner’s types; but, as in the case of other critical workers, it can be shown that Stephens was thoroughly acquainted with his subject, and by no means acted in the dark when he selected certain species to which he assigned Hiibner’s generic names. He specially stated that some of Hiibner’s genera required revision, and proceeded to apply his critical. knowledge to the task—in short, he did at least attempt to revise Hiibner’s work so far as the knowledge of the day permitted it and so far as such revision was required for the work in hand. In any case, but largely for this reason, we contend that Stephens’s limitations should be respected by subsequent authors, and this would probably be conceded after a careful study of his writings. We may perhaps go so far as to admit that an arbitrary rule is desirable for the future, but we contend that it should not be, and cannot be justly or advisedly, retrospective. For example, I consider that I should have had no right to cite pomonella as the type of Cydia Hitbner (Pr. Z. Soc, Lond. 1897) if any other author had previously used Cydia with such limitations as had the effect of excluding that species; but Stephens having included pomonella among the three species of Carpocapsa, which he regarded as typical of ( ydia, it was obviously so selected by him and the genus was thus restricted to the type *.
| For similar reasons Meyrick cannot, in my opinion, resuscitate Mompha Hiibner for conturbatella after Stephens had disregarded that species in his modified conception of Hibner’s genus. No arbitrary rules can rightly be made retrospective to the detriment of past study. Without such modification the arbitrary fixation of types strikes a death-blow at the whole system of priority, and the work of generations of critical authors is placed at the mercy of any future writer who may perhaps be comparatively unacquainted with the subject on which he writes.
Is it too much to hope that by consistently advocating this view, and in each case giving reasons for selecting certain types of the older genera in cases where this has not already been done, we may in the end convince those representatives of inter- national opinion to whom the Rules of Nomenclature may next be referred that they ‘would do well to lay down the principle that the arbitrary fixation of types can have no retrospective effect to the detriment of previous critical study, but can only be taken as applying to the present and to the future 2
* Vide pp. 258-263—cf. Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 130; Cockerell New Mexico Agr. Coll. Bull. 25 47 (1898); Busck Jr. New York Ent. Soc. 11 106-11 (1908) ; Fernald Gen. Tortr. 6, 19, 58 (1908), t Vide pp. 15-16—ef. Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 173-4 (1909),
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER. , Heter., Vol. IV., June 1915, b
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Mr. Busck has generously allowed me to describe and include in our work a number of new species, collected by himself, Mr. F. Knab, and others in the Panama Canal Zone and in Mexico, which were not represented in Dr. Godman’s collections, and these have afforded strong evidence that only the fringe of the subject has as yet been touched, and that the fauna of those regions will prove to be exceptionally rich in
species and genera.
I am especially indebted to my friend Mr. W. Schaus for some interesting con- tributions to the collection kindly given me many years ago, and the results of his energy are further illustrated in the examples submitted by Mr. Busck from the National Museum at Washington, to which he has so generously contributed.
Dr. Godman’s collectors were instructed to obtain insects of all orders, and had not the opportunity to devote special attention to the Tineina; consequently a large proportion of our material has consisted of unique specimens, which is greatly. to be regretted. In the case of these small and often inconspicuous insects, it is specially important that a good series of each species should be secured to facilitate comparison of markings and structure—the latter almost impossible to certify without denudation under the microscope, for which it has sometimes been necessary to sacrifice the half of even a unique example.
In the course of our work one point has been made remarkably clear and indisputable. It has been shown by very numerous instances that in the majority of— although, of course, not in all—previous attempts to describe and even to illustrate differences of neuration, whether for generic or special determinations, reliance has been placed on the system of moistening the wings with benzine and examining them with ordinary pocket-lenses of varying power, a system which for some of the main characters is frequently useful and sufficient. This has, however, proved to be the source of innumerable errors, easily detected when the wings are thoroughly denuded and placed under the microscope. I must plead guilty to several errors in the past from this cause, and the same has affected the work of others upon whose descriptions and drawings I have too frequently relied. In the United States this has long been recognised. Dr. Brackenridge Clemens (1860, etc.) and other more recent specialists, notably Mr. Busck, have invariably made microscopic slides where any doubt could exist. In this manner only can the internal veins of the cell, or the different degrees of anastomosis and coincidence in the supporting wing-structure, be intelligibly studied. Such a method can alone supply the necessary evidence for understanding the processes by which gradual changes of development or deterioration have been brought about, and this is becoming more than ever essential to correct study.
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' It was not originally my intention to transfer my collections and library to the National Museum until this work should have been completed; but the delay that has occurred in the elaboration of references to previous literature, and in the repro- duction of Mr. Frohawk’s excellent figures by lithography at Leiden, combined with other circumstances, rendered it impossible to postpone their departure, and the transference has not accelerated publication. ‘The importance of securing the majority of the types, as such, for our National Museum has not been overlooked, and I should have been better satisfied if this object could have been achieved at an earlier date. The publication of the monograph of the Hawaiian “ Micros,” which was in hand when I first began to prepare a paper for the ‘ Biologia,’ somewhat interfered with its earlier stages, but the great delay which has occurred in bringing this treatise to a successful conclusion has been for the most part due to the earnest desire of Mr. Durrant to carry it beyond its original scope and purpose, and to give it special value for the future guidance of all students of the Microlepidoptera. With this aim in view, he has undertaken far-reaching researches in the literature of the subject. He has looked up as far as possible every reference, not only to the species under consideration, but to the genera in which they have been placed by various authors, tracing the history of each genus, and, where amalgamation has become necessary, the type of each generic name is stated in chronological order, establishing priority which may be confidently accepted as such, unless an error can be subsequently proved. It is perhaps too much to hope that no such errors may henceforth be found, but there has been at least no attempt to suppress information, and the references given throughout should be clearly sufficient to indicate the lines on which further research may safely proceed. During the time that the Collections remained in my possession, when I was able to direct and examine the progress of the necessary comparisons and tabulation of genera and species, it was apparent that this work could not be done without much sacrifice of time and labour devoted to literary research, and the delay involved was even then a source of considerable annoyance and disappointment, not only to the Author and Projector of the ‘ Biologia’ but to myself. I had written a large proportion of the descriptions of new species so long ago as 1895, soon after Dr. Godman’s material was placed in my hands, and at that time I had every hope that a paper on the same lines as others in his great publication might have been completed within a few years at least. From that time onward not only has much additional material been added to the Collection, but much has been published from time to time affecting the questions of classification and nomenclature, as well as adding many species to the numbers recorded from the region included in the scope of the investigation.
Since April 1910, when my Collections (including the Godman and Salvin material) and Library were presented to the National Museum, | have been unable to exercise
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any real superintendence over the literary work undertaken by my assistant, and beyond the mere description of a few newly acquired or possibly overlooked species, the task has been left entirely in Mr. Durrant’s hands, and has been prolonged very far beyond my expectation as well as beyond his own. I greatly regret it has delayed the completion of the ‘Biologia’ so earnestly desired by Dr. Godman, but I hope that the thoroughness of the work done and the importance of the advance made in the general study of this interesting branch of entomology may afford some consolation and compensation for the patience with which it has been awaited.
June 1915. | W ALSINGHAM.
Census.
27 Families enumerated, 2 described as new. 225 Genera enumerated, 54 described as new, illustrated by 30 text-figures. 1025 Species enumerated, 586 described as new, illustrated by 10 plates including 350 figures.
1 Genus and 2 Species described as new from South America, and several species added to the fauna of the United States.
Explanation of Signs, Abbreviations, ete.
& = male. Q = female, o = sex not stated. @ = egg. @ = larva. >) = pupa. © = imago. * = invalid as not containing the Type of the conception. | + = wrongly written either in inception or adoption. 4 =a vernacular name. t+ = correction of a name previously wrongly written. § =a homonym. || = a synonym. nn. = a neonym. IN, = a logonym, MN, = a mononym,
PLI.=a Paratype. PIT. = Paratypes. AT.=a Homotype.
Dionym = the name (onym) of a species as originally published in valid form, consisting of two terms, a species-name (idionym) combined with a genus-name (genonym).
Idionym = a species-name (without reference to the genus).
Genonym = a genus-name (without reference to the species).
Mononym = a genonym published without exponents (invalid as not dionymic, and as having no indication of its application).
Logonym = a mere printed name (invalid as having no indication of its application).
Homonym = the same name applied to a different conception (invalid as already in use in another
sense). .
Synonym = a different name applied to the same conception (invalid, unless required to replace a homonym). ,
Isonym = a different name applied to a similar conception (potentially valid: genonyms restricted
to different types are isonymous so long as their Types are regarded as congeneric) Neonym =a new name to replace a homonym. ;
Drnt.
LP Deze. 1904 ZOOLOGIA. Class INSECTA. Order LEPIDOPTERA. Suborder HETEROCERA (continued) f. TINEINA. | Fam. 1. LAVERNIDAE. Lavernipar Wk., Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 318 (1871); Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 415 (1876). = * HracuisripakE Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 10, 224-5 no. 10 (1854) ; Meyr.; Stgr-Rbl.; efc. PSEUDASTASIA, gen. n. (Wevdns=false ; de7acia = unsteadiness.) Type: Pseudastasia opulenta Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 5.) (4) J. H. Durrant, del. 1. Pseudastasia opulenta Wlsm. ¢. Antennae a little longer than the forewings, much flattened and dilated, taeniaform, tapering to a flattened point ; fringed along their lower edge with long appressed scales ; basal joint withoat pecten. Labial . + By The Right Hon. Lorp WatsIneHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.RS., ete. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., December 1909. bb Schaus collection
v&
2250045
2 HETEROCERA.
Palpi very short, decumbent, smooth, pointed. Mawillary Palpi obsolete. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head smooth. Thorax smooth, stout. produced conspicuously in advance of the wing- base. Forewings narrow, elongate-lanceolate, costa slightly rounded beyond middle, dorsum evenly convex: neuration 10 veins, 7 and 8 coincident, 2 obsolete ; (7+8) and 6 stalked, enclosing apex ; 3, 4, 5, straight and parallel. Hindwings (—1), elongate-lanceolate, not acutely pointed : neuration 6 veins, 24344 coincident ; 6 and 7 stalked, 5 separate; cell open between 5 and cubitus; 12 free. Abdomen stout, smooth. Legs rather stout; hind tibiae with long, projecting tuft of closely packed hair-scales above the distal pair of spurs ; hind tarsi rather densely clothed.
Allied to Lithariapterye Chmb., Scelorthus Busck, and Lamprolophus Busck, but differing in the absence of raised scales, in the peculiar thick antennae, and in the stalking of 6 and (7+ 8) in the forewings.
1. Pseudastasia opulenta, sp. n. (ab. I. fig. 5.)
Antennae black. Palpi and Haustellum ochreous. Head black. Thorax dark brownish fuscous, with some bright ochreous at the sides and behind, (but the thorax is much damaged). forewings very dark fuscous, almost black, with shining steely lines marking the venation beyond the cell to the apex and termen ; a broad, shining, golden-ochre band from the base to the tornus, its upper edge somewhat more intensely coloured than the dorsal portion, and clearly defined against the dark ground-colour of the wing above; cilia steely bluish black. Zay.al. 14 mm. Hindwings tawny brown; cilia pale brown, with some steely blue reflections. Abdomen purplish fuscous, with an ochreous band near the base, (but
much damaged). Legs purplish fuscous, the femora golden ochreous beneath. Type $ (65998) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Bugaba 800-1000 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique.
SCELORTHUS Busck. Type: Scelorthus pisoniella Busck (Busck 1900).
Scrtortuvs Busck Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 8 239-41 Pf. 9-4 (1900); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 535 sp. 6075 (1902).
1. Scelorthus calcifer, sp. n.
Antennae bronzy fuscous ; the basal joint attenuate at its origin; a few of the terminal joints slightly biserrate. Palpt short, depressed ; median joint whitish, terminal joint fuscous. Head bronzy above, mixed with orange-ochreous scales. Yhorax bronzy fuscous, with two orange-yellow streaks parallel with the tegulae. Morewings shining, orange-yellow, with a purplish fuscous patch at the base, on which is a bronzy costal spot; along the upper edge of the fold is a gradually widening purplish shade,
sprinkled with aeneous scales, occupying the whole outer portion of the cell and extending around the end of the wing, where it encloses a large ovate patch of the orange ground-colour ; four aeneous metallic spots connect this with the costa and dorsum, two below the fold, the first at one-fourth from the base, the second scarcely before the middle, and two above the cell, one a little beyond the first: dorsal spot, the other on the middle of the costa ; on the outer third of the wing-length a broad aeneous band, commencing abruptly, passes around the base of the cilia on the costa and termen, beyond which the cilia are greyish fuscous. xrp.al.l3 mm. Hindwings orange~yellowish, becoming bronzy fuscous on their outer half: cilia greyish fuscous, shading to yellowish towards the base of the wing. Abdomen orange-yellow tipped with purplish fuscous, some purplish fuscous shading along the sides beneath. Legs shining bronzy the posterior pair ornamented with metallic scales; two rich orange bands around the hind tibiae, and one on the first tarsal joint; the base of the spurs, and the spurs themselves, especially the outer ones, adorned with projecting dark metallic tufts which are slightly repeated also on the tarsal joints.
Type 3 (65999) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (66000) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Muxtco: MoRELOS: Cuernavaca, VI. (H. H. Smith): GUERRERO: ‘Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft., X. (A. H. Smith). Two specimens.
EMBOLA. 3
EMBOLA, gen. n. (éuod = an insertion.)
Type: Embola xanthocephala Wlsm.
J. H. Durrant, del. 2. Embola xanthocephala Wism. 6.
Antennae simple, nearly as long as forewings; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi short, slender, dependent, smooth, pointed, Mamillary Palpi minute. Haustellum long, naked. yes ciliate posteriorly. Ocella very conspicuous. Head prominent, globose, smooth. Thoraw smooth. Forewings elongate- lanceolate, pointed, termen subsinuate ; smooth: neuration, 10 veins, 7 and 8 coincident, 2 obsolete ; all separate, (7+8) to costa; 1 almost simple, 1 being subobsolete. Hindwings (—1), lanceolate, pointed : neuration 6 veins, cubitus simple (2+3+4); 5, 6, 7, separate, 5 supported by approximating branches of media ; discoidal obsolete between 5 and cubitus. Abdomen somewhat slender. Legs, posterior tibiae with series of evenly projecting bristly hairs above throughout ; spurs long, naked.
By neuration most nearly allied to Scelorthus Busck, but easily separable from this genus, as also from Aetole Chmb. (= * Heliodines Wlsm.—nec Stn.) by the structure of the hind legs, in which it agrees with Lamprolophus Busck, but differs in having only ten veins in the forewings, and in the hindwings 6 and 7 are not stalked.
In addition to the species now described, Heliodines marginata Wlsm. [ Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 535, 547 sp. 123 (1892): 1897 109 sp. 132 (1897)], St. Vincent, W-L., is recognised as belonging to the genus Lméola.
1. Embola xanthocephala, sp. n.
Antennae bronzy fuscous, apex white. Palpi short, slender, dependent; ochreous. Head orange-yellow. Thorax dark fuscous, with a bronzy sheen, especially on the tegulae. Forewinys rich golden-orange, with shining, bronzy, lilac metallic spots, four along the costa, three along the dorsum, each followed by an inverted, similarly metallic, length-streak from before the apex ; the first three costal spots, of which the second projects rather further over the surface of the cell than the other two, are set in a dark purplish fuscous shade-band, reaching to beyond the middle, and rather widened outward from its narrow origin at the base of the costa; the fourth costal spot, which is preceded and followed by golden orange, is very narrowly margined by purplish fuscous, as is also the short, inverted, metallic streak beyond it, the same dark colour spreading around the apex and enclosing the rather longer inverted streak pointing inward from the termen above the tornus, where it separates it from the erect antetornal metallic spot on the dorsum, which points to the space between the third and fourth costal; a narrow purplish fuscous streak from the base also connects the first and second dorsal spots to each other, but not to the third, the second of these being low and flattened ; cilia smoky fuscous. Hwp. al. 95 mm. Hindwings dark
66 2
4 HETEROCERA.
bronzy cupreous; cilia smoky fuscous. Abdomen dark steely fuscous above, steely white beneath. Legs dark fuscous externally, the spurs and inner sides of hind tibiae steely whitish. Type 2 (66001) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [P7. (66003) US. Nat. Mus. }
Hab. Mexico: tabasco: Teapa, IIl. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens.
2. Embola dentifer, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 6.)
Antennae stout, somewhat flattened; purplish fuscous, apex white. Palpi short, dependent; ochreous. Head dull orange. Thorax purplish fuscous. Fbrewings bright orange; the costa fuscous throughout, including the cilia, along it are distributed four dark, marginal, iridescent lilac metallic tooth-shaped spots, one basal, followed by two more before the middle, and one scarcely beyond the middle ; a little beyond the last the dark marginal band is increased in width and is continued around the apex to the commencement of the tornal cilia, suffused with a lilac iridescent gloss throughout; the base of the dorsum is dark fuscous, and beyond the base are three lilac iridescent tooth-shaped spots attenuated with the costal spots above them, the outer one of the series coalescing with the dark marginal band beyond it, the space between the dorsal spots being unshaded with fuscous. Hvp.al.13 mm. Hind- wings dark cupreous, beautifully iridescent in a strong light; cilia cupreous. Abdomen brownish fuscous, anal tuft ochreous. Legs cupreous, banded with pale ochreous.
Type 3 (66004) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: MorELos: Cuernavaca, VI. (H. A. Smith). Unique.
COSMOPTERYX Hb. Type: Tinea zieglerella Hb. (Z. 1839).
Cosmorreryx Hb. Verz. Schm. 424 sp. 4126-32 (1826); Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 228-9 Pl. 7-4? (1854); Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 124 (1891) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 640, 662 no. 5 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 105-7 sp. 123-6 (1897); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 92 299, 338-41 sp. 79-83 (1897) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. IL. 184-5 sp. 3550-9 (1901) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 534-5 sp. 6061-74 (1902) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 30 707-18 (1906) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lend. 1907 964-7 sp. 75-7 (1908); Meyr. Pr. Z. Soe. Lond. 1908 733-4 (1908).
1. Cosmopteryx irrubricata, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 1.)
Antennae dark brown, with a series of narrow white streaklets above toward the base, and two silvery rings at two-thirds; the basal joint has also narrow silvery streaks along on either side. Palpi bronzy cinereous, the terminal joint with a fuscous line on either side. Head pale greyish brown; face steel- grey. Forewings dark brown, with a slightly paler band across the base, and another beyond the middle, the latter not reaching the costa ; at the outer edge of the pale basal band are three small steel-blue strigulae, the two upper ones very short, the third below the fold, about double their length; before the second pale band a narrow, metallic, rosy lilac fascia crosses the wing, a similar fascia occurring at the outer edge of the band, but like it failing to reach the costa; beyond this is a metallic lilae dorsal streak, half- way to the apex, with a silvery white costal spot above and between the two; the cilia at the extreme apex snow-white, above and beneath the apex brown. Haxp.al. 75mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish . brown. Abdomen [missing]. Legs greyish brown, with steel-white metallic streaks across the tibiae, and snow-white spots at the joints of the tarsi.
Type 3 (65991, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.),
Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—MeExico: VERA CRUZ: Atoyac, LV. (H. Z. Smith). West Indies—Jamaica: st. ann: Runaway Bay, 18. III. 1905 ( Wlsm.). Two specimens.
COSMOPTERYX. 9)
This species, which is closely allied to abnormalis Wlsm. (Hayti), differs in the varied colour of the metallic markings, and in the presence of a subterminal spot before the apex.
2. Cosmopteryx ochleria, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 2.)
Antennae brownish fuscous, with a slender white line along the upper side; the terminal four joints white ; the next five fuscous, then one fuscous between two white. Palpi white, with a fuscous line along either side. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous, with slender white lateral lines. Forewings brownish fuscous, with a dull ochreous median band, obliquely margined with pale golden metallic on either side, the inner margin slanting outward, entire, with a black dot above its middle within the band, the outer margin slanting inward, broken above its middle, and with a white spot on the costa at its upper edge ; a slender silvery white entire streak through the dark brownish fuscous terminal area and cilia to the apex; the three white streaklets on the basal area are as usual, the upper one bent, the second very short, not extending beyond the upper, the third commencing parallel with the second, but exceeding it in length. Hap.al.35 mm. Hindwings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish. Legs brownish, banded with white; an oblique white streak before the ends of the tibiae externally.
Type $ (65993) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coil.).
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, IIL. (A. H. Smith). Unique.
This species differs from ¢urbidella Rbl. in the longer white apical streak, in the broader ochreous fascia, and in the greater length of the lower three streaklets on the basal area.
3. Cosmopteryx astrapias, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 3.)
Antennae dark bronzy brown, with a line of white spots along the upper side, some near the base becoming confluent and continuous with a streak along the basal joint; four or five of the terminal joints are white, and these are preceded by a band of five brown joints, following two other white ones. Palpi silvery, shaded with fuscous along their uter sides and before the extreme apex which is white. Head bronzy brown; face steel-white. Thorax dark bronzy brown, without lines. Forewings dark bronzy brown, a yellow fascia commencing at the middle of the wing, of which the inner edge is almost straight, margined by confluent pale golden metallic spots, against the upper one of which is a black dot; at the outer edge of the fascia are two similar pale golden metallic spots, perpendicularly placed, one above the other, and of about equal size, the yellow edge of the fascia projecting between them, but not reaching beyond them, a slender silvery streak running to the apex from the yellow projection; there is no conspicuous white streak in the cilia above the outer golden costal spot, but two or three white hair- scales are visible; on the dark basal half of the wing the usual silvery strigulae are arranged as follows, one from the base below the costa, slightly depressed at its outer end, and terminating below the com- mencement of a similar, but much shorter, subcostal streak, running nearly to the metallic edge of the fascia ; from about the base of the fold another slender streak reaches a little further than the one above it, and below the fold is a shorter streak extending even further than the last, but not produced toward the base; cilia bronzy brownish. Hap. al. 8 mm. Hindwings and cilia bronzy brownish, slightly paler than the forewings. Abdomen shining, bronzy brown. Legs brownish fuscous, with white spots above the bases of the partly white spurs; hind tarsi white.
Type 2 (65996) Mus. Wlsm, (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith), Unique.
Much resembling attenuatella Wkr., but the projection from the yellow band is not nearer to the costa than to the dorsum and there are no strigulae on head or thorax.
6 HETEROCERA.
4. Cosmopteryx xanthura, sp. n.
Antennae whitish beneath, barred with black above, the bars connected by a slender black line to two-thirds ; broadly banded with white at two-thirds, then again equally widely ‘banded with black, the three or four terminal joints again white. Palpi very slender, terminal joint twice median ; white, with slender length-lines on either side. Head brownish fuscous, iridescent on the crown; face shining, yellowish white. Thorax dark brownish fuscous, a slender steely metallic line dividing it posteriorly. Forewings dark brownish fuscous to their middle, a slender shining steel-grey line along the costa from the base, with three similar shorter lines below it, removed from the base; at about the wing-middle are two spots of pale golden raised scales, almost connected and forming an outwardly oblique fascia from costa to dorsum, there is a black dot on the outer edge of the costal spot; these spots encroach upon a broad bright ochreous yellow band, which sends a slender curved streak of the same colour to the apex and through the apical cilia, bounded on either side by dark brownish fuscous, but more widely and con- spicuously above than heneath ; before the brown colouring is another pair of raised golden spots, placed obliquely in reverse direction from the previous pair, a few light ochreous scales succeeding the upper one in the costal cilia ; cilia shining, brownish grey. yp. al. 8-85 mm. Hindwings blue-grey at the base, becoming brownish grey toward the apex; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous, illuminated at the side with steel-grey ; underside silvery white. Legs brownish fuscous, with silvery white bands around the base of the spurs, the tibiae between them being bristly with black hairs above; spurs and ends of hind tarsi silvery white.
Type & (65987) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT7. (65988) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: taspasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens.
Undistinguishable from sanctivincenti Wlsm., except in the white end to the antennae and the broad white band before the subterminal dark band.
5. Cosmopteryx diaphora, sp. n.
Antennae brown above, whitish beneath, with about four pale straw terminal joints, these preceded by three brown joints, after one brown, between two pale straw. Palpi pale straw, with a slender fuscous line along either side. Head and Thorax brownish fuscous, with a slender white central streak, but no lateral streaks. Forewings brownish fuscous as far as the middle, thence broadly banded with pale straw-yellow, the inuer edge of the band running obliquely outward from costa to dorsum, margined by two golden metallic spots, one below the costa accompanied by a black dot, the other beyond it resting on the dorsum; scarcely beyond the middle of the band are two similar, but opposite, pale golden metallic spots, one at the costa, with a few scales running outward from it through the cilia, the other on the dorsum; on the dark basal half of the wing the usual silvery white strigulae are present, the first slightly bent downward at its apex, the second and third parallel to each other, but not quite reaching the pale band, the lower one being rather more than half the length of the median; beyond the yellow band the only repetition of the brownish fuscous colour is found in a rather broad apical streak, bounded on its lower edge by a silvery white line running with it to the extreme apex of the cilia; the costal cilia above it are tipped with yellowish, those below the silver line also yellowish, shading to brownish grev along the dorsum. Exp. al. 75-85 mm. Hindwings pale grey; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish. Legs brownish grey, with yellowish white spurs; median pair with a yellowish white tuft at their base; hind tarsi faintly banded with yellowish white.
Type 3 (65994) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65995) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (7. H. Smith). Two specimens. Allied to the somewhat larger coryphaea Wlsm., from ‘Tenerife, but differing in the
oblique anterior margin of the pale band, and in the length and direction of the basal strigulae. |
ERITARBES.—STILBOSIS. 7
ERITARBES, gen, n. (€prrapGijs = very timid.) Type: Eritarbes otiosa Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 11.)
2 440
J. H. Durrant, del. . . 3. Eritarbes otiosa Wism. Co.
Antennae (—1), slightly serrate; basal joint with single pecten. Labial Palpi recurved, divergent, reaching the length of the head beyond it; both joints somewhat thickened with smoothly appressed scales. Maxillary Palpi minute, Haustellum moderate. Ocelli present. Head and Thora smooth. Porewings elongate-lanceolate, without tufts of raised scales: neuration 12 veins ; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 6 out, of 7 beyond 8; 5 out of stalk of (6+7+8); 9 connate with stalk of 8-5, rest separate; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings (~4), linear-lanceolate, cilia 5-8: neuration 8 veins; 6 and 7 stalked, rest separate, 4 closely approximate to 5. Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae rough-haired above.
This genus agrees in neuration with the description of the Australian Haplochrots Meyr. { Pr. Lin, Soc. NSW. 22 310 (1898)], but the different palpi and narrower hind- wings easily separate Hritarbes from Meyrick’s genus, which would appear to contain two forms differing in the origin of vein 5 in the forewings,
1, Eritarbes otiosa, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 11.)
Antennae smoky fuscous, becoming silvery white on their terminal fourth. Palpi bronzy fuscous on their inner sides, blackish externally. Heud bronzy fuscous. Z'horax dark smoky fuscous, with a brownish tinge posteriorly. orewings dark olivaceous brownish, much suffused with smoky fuscous, especially along the costa and at the apex, including the apical cilia, the only indication of any marking being a minute blackish dot in the fold beyond its middle; dorsal cilia dark smoky grey. Hwp. al. 8-85 mm. Hindwings brongy fuscous; cilia dark smoky grey. Abdomen dull smoky fuscous. Legs smoky fuscous, with a pale bronzy tinge on their inner sides.
Type 3 (66026) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (66029, 66031, 66033) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (4. H. Smith). Nine specimens,
STILBOSIS Clms. Type: Stilbosis tesquella Clms. (Clms. 1860).
StinBosis Clms, Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 170 (1860) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 129-30 (1872) ; Dyar Bull. US, Nat. Mus. 52 539 sp. 6127 (1902).
8 HETEROCERA.
1. Stilbosis tesquella, Clms.
=ttesquatella Chmb. ; =quinquecristatella Chmb.’
Stilbosis tesquella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Sc. Phil. 12 170 (1860) *: Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. xii, 37, 40, 129-80 (1872)*. Stilbosis tesquatella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 162 (1878) °. Laverna? quinquecristatella Chmb. Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 3 293 (1881) *. Stélbosis tesquella Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 197 (1882) *; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 539 sp. 6127 (1902) °; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 181, 202 (1903) *.
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States!’—AruaNTIC STATES 6__M ASSACHUSETTS ¢ : Amherst 4—PENNSYLVANIA2—Bistrict or CotumBia?: Washington, © Amphicarpoea monoica, VII, excl. VIII.7 Central America—MExico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (A. Hl. Smith).
2. Stilbosis incincta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 9.) |
Antennae 2; whitish, barred with dark brownish fuscous above throughout. Palpi dependent, curved outward, median and terminal joints of about equal length; whitish, shaded with brownish fuscous beneath, a ring of the same at the apex of the median joint, and another before the apex of the terminal. Head steel-whitish above; face silvery-white. Thoraw dark brownish fuscous in front, posteriorly silvery. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, the dorsal space below the fold somewhat silvery ; a cunei- -form bright yellow-ochreous streak along the termen occupies half the wing-width, and is preceded by an upright, silvery, raised dorsal streak, pointing to a spot of the same colour on the costa; in the yellow space, a little beyond the first, is a round jet-black dot; the costal portion beyond the silver spot is of the dark ground-colour, containing three slender inverted silvery white streaks, the outer one passing through the cilia scarcely above the apex; cilia silvery grey. Ewp.al.6 mm. Hindwings shining, very pale grey; cilia rosy grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous, with paler anal tuft. Legs dark brownish fuscous externally, whitish on their inner sides ; the hind tibiae with whitish hairs above, the spurs white ;
the hind tarsi with three white annulations.
Type 3 (65542) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: TaBasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
3. Stilbosis juvenis, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 10.)
Antennae blackish, with pale fawn-ochreous annulations. Palpt pale steely grey, suffused with blackish toward the apex, but not at the extreme tip. Head and Thorax bronzy blackish. Forewings bronzy blackish, with a large pale fawn-ochreous dorsal patch crossing the fold, and attenuated at its outer and upper extremity in a ridge of raised scales of the same colour, reaching nearly to the middle of the costa, a little beyond which, on the dorsum, is a smaller patch of which the outer half is dark fuscous; the dark space beyond these is somewhat broken by pale fawn-vchreous, of which there is a more distinct band crossing the wing before the apical area, and containing a few raised scales, mixed with fuscous in its lower half ; the terminal area is wholly bronzy blackish, with a few raised scales along the base of the almost equally darkened cilia; another strong patch of raised blackish scales precedes the first pale ochreous space, at about one-fourth from the base. Exp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings bronzy brownish grey ; cilia brownish ochreous. Abdomen bronzy brownish, tinged with ochreous. Legs alternately banded with bronzy blackish and pale ochreous.
Type 2 (66024) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amiula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
STILBOSIS.—HOMALEDRA. 9
This has much the appearance of Waishia amorphella Clms., from which it differs in neuration and in the distribution of the dark and pale colour-patches, which are however so similar in general tone as to remind one very strongly of that species.
4. Stilbosis amphibola, sp. n.
Antennae, basal joint with single pecten; bronzy brownish, with pale bars above. Palpi bronzy brownish, slightly speckled on their outer sides, except towards the apex. Head and Thorax bronzy brownish, the latter becoming paler, or more steely grey, posteriorly. Forewings bronzy brownish, with a slight purplish tinge, a few upstanding scales on the fold at one-sixth; a straight, transverse, bar of raised scales at the tornus ; a few of the darker scales at the base of the cilia, around the apex, are also slightly raised ; the space below the fold from base to middle is almost entirely shining steely whitish ; cilia bronzy grey, with shining steely white tips to some of the shorter scales around the apex. LHwxp. al. 115 mm. Hindwings steely grey; cilia rather brownish grey. Abdomen bronzy, slightly mottled with paler shining scales. Legs bronzy brownish, the tarsi pale spotted; the rather hairy tibiae with steely whitish scales above each pair of spurs.
Lype 3 (66022) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (66023) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: euERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
This species has much the appearance of Walshia amorphella Clms., it differs how- ever, not only in neuration, but also in the pattern of its colouring, the pale dorsal space not extending, as in that species, above and beyond the fold, but rather more in the direction of the base ; it differs in the same way from Stildosis juvenis Wlsm., which was at first thought to be Walshia amorphella.
HOMALEDRA Busck. Type: Homaledra heptathalama Busck (Busck 1900).
Homatepra Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 286-8 Pf. 1-10-11 (1900); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 543 sp. 6169-6169'1 (1902).
1. Homaledra knabi, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 8.)
Antennae fawn-ochreous. Palpi pale fawn-ochreous, whitish on their inner sides; the tuft at the end of the median projecting to the length of the short, suberect, terminal joint, which has two fuscous annulations. Head and Thoragz pale fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale fawn-ochreous, minutely dusted with fuscous, more thickly along the dorsum, where it forms a connected, narrow, speckled shade-band from flexus to tornus ; a small fuscous spot lies at about the middle of the fold, and another at the end of the cell below the middle; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. xp. al. 24 mm. Hindwings rather shining, pale bone-greyish ; cilia pale fawn-ochreous. Abdomen and Legs pale fawn-ochreous, the former slightly tinged with fuscous across the middle.
Type 2 (5972 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. Hab. Muxico: vERA cruz: Cordova, V. 1908 (F. Knab). Unique.
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. 1V., December 1909. ce
10 HETEROCERA.
HOMOEOPREPES, gen. n. (Gpotomper is = of-like-appearance-with.)
Type: Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wlsm.
42 ZS :
vj
J. H. Durrant, del.
4. Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wism. .
Antennae (broken—? nearly as long as the wing) basal joint without pecten. Labial Paipi long, recurved ; median joint somewhat thickened, slightly roughened in front; terminal joint much shorter than median, attenuate. Maxillary Palpi obsolete (or broken’). Haustellum moderate. Head smooth (denuded). Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate-lanceolate, costa slightly depressed in the middle, apex depressed, bluntly pointed ; termen very oblique, corresponding with the contour of the apical depression of the costa; with raised scales: newration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 3 and 4 stalked, 2 connate with (3+4); rest separate ; 1° furcate, 1* separate, but almost anastomosed with 1°° for greater part of its length, diverging basally and distally. Hindwings (—1) obtusely lanceolate, cilia 1: neuration 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate ; 2— (5+6) separate, remote. Abdomen moderate. Legs (broken).
Closely allied to Lophoptilus Sircom (=Leucophryne Chmb.), and similar in appearance, but easily distinguished by the stalking of veins 8 and 4 of the forewings.
- 1. Homoeoprepes trochiloides, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 13.)
Antennae, Palpi, and Head pale ochreous. Thorax brownish. orewings iridescent purplish, or bluish, grey, smeared with dark ferruginous, which becomes rich chestnut-brown in some lights, especially towards the apex; this dark shading commences at the base of the costa, where it forms an elongate patch of diffused scaling, scarcely separated from a large median blotch commencing near the middle of the base, following the cell almost to its outer extremity and diffused upward to the costa and downward into the middle of the fold; a patch of partly raised chestnut scales lies on the cell at one-third from the base; a few similar scales are in the fold somewhat beyond it, and, at the outer extremity of the cell is a strong patch of raised dull golden scales, mixed with fuscous, whence a rich chestnut streak is produced to the apex, somewhat dilated upward to the costa above it; cilia cupreous. Ewp.al.25 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale cupreous. Abdomen brownish cupreous (somewhat denuded). Legs (broken).
Type & (66037) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Costa Rica: Volcan de Irazu, 6000-7000 ft. (H. Rogers). Unique.
The specimen is unfortunately in very poor condition, but it is of so remarkable a form that it seems desirable to indicate its presence as a feature of the Central- American fauna. |
SYNALLAGMA.—PAMMECES, ll
SYNALLAGMA Busck. Type: Synallagma busckiella Engel (Busck 1907). Synattaema Busck Ent. News 18 277 (1907).
The Zoological Record (1907 Ind. Gn. 13) wrongly attributes this genus to Engel, despite Mr. Engel’s statement (Ent. News 18 276) that “the diagnosis of the new genus Synallagma was prepared by Mr. Busck”!
1. Synallagma busckellum Engel. (Tab. I. fig. 4.) Synallayma busckiella Engel Eut. News 18 278 (1907) '.
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States '—Prnnsyivanta!: Pittsburgh, VI-IX'; Oak Station’. Central America—Mexico: cuzrrERo: Amula 6000 ft., VIII. (LZ. LH. Smith).
A single specimen (65997), in poor condition, undoubtedly belongs to the genus Synatiagma Busck, but the markings are much obliterated and it cannot be identified as busckellum with absolute certainty ; it shows no character by which it can be separated from the Pittsburgh specimen (33604) figured.
PAMMECES Z. Type: Pammeces albivittella Z. (Z. 1863). Pamoecss Z. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 24 152-3 Pf. 2-11-11 (1863).
Antennae longer than forewings, simple; basal joint elongate, with pecten. Labial Palpi long, slender, recurved ; terminal joint acute, longer than median; median joint, distally, with long hairs above and beneath. Maaillary Palpi minute. Haustellum moderate. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate-hastate, slightly sinuate beneath apex: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; rest separate; cell very long, 4 from its tornus; media from below 6; 1% basally furcate, strongly angulate dorsally at the postflexal impression; 1¢ present. Hindwings narrow, lanceolate, cilia 2-3: neuration 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate; rest separate, cell very long. Abdomen moderate. Legs rather long; hind tibiae with long hairs above.
This genus belongs to the group of Lophoptilus Sircom, and Batrachedra Stn., having 5 and 6 of the hindwings stalked; it is most nearly allied to Zaratha Wkr., which however has smooth palpi, and lacks the antennal pecten.
[The above description is taken from Pammeces -problema Wlsm. (68986-8, Colombia) which is congeneric with the unique type of albivittella Z. (Venezuela). |
1. Pammeces phlogophora, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 7.)
Antennae somewhat longer than the forewings, biserrate towards the apex, basal joint enlarged, with slight pecten beneath ; pale fawn, basal joint smeared above with reddish orange. Palpi recurved, slender, terminal joint longer than median which is clothed with a long, somewhat triangular, projecting tutt beneath ; very pale fawn, with a black spot before the apex of the terminal joint. Head reddish orange above, face pale fawn. Thorax pale fawn, anteriorly spotted with reddish orange; tegulae yellow. Forewings bright canary-yellow, the costa pale shining fawn-colour throughout, the middle of the dorsum and a small tuft near its base purplish fuscous ; around the yellow central portion of the wing a
ce 2
12 HETEROCERA.
margin of bright reddish orange encloses the cell, and is produced at its upper angle in a narrow streak to the apex where it is reduplicated in the costal cilia; a dash of shining rosy pink terminating in a shining purple grey streak, above which is a black spot, precedes and accompanies the termen beneath the apex; there is also a small black spot at the extreme apex; costal cilia yellowish, terminal cilia pale fawn, with a rosy lustre along their base. Ewp.al.14mm. Hindwings shining, semitransparent, pale steel-grey, thickened on their outer half by dark grey lustrous scales beneath; cilia palefawn. Abdomen fawn. Legs pale fawn, the hind tibiae with long pale fawn hairs above. Type 3 (65540) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion). Two specimens.
ZLARATHA Wkr. Type: Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. (Wkr. 1864).
ZaratHa Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 789-90 no. 78 (1864); F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 expl. Pf. 140-18, 26 (1875).
Antennae longer than the forewings, serrate; basal joint elongate and narrow at the base, without pecten. Labial Pulpi long, recurved, rising high above the head, smooth; terminal joint acute, longer than the median. Mawillary Palpi small, but distinct, bent. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head and Z'horax smooth. Forewings very long and narrow, apex depressed, acuminate: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; rest separate; cell long, 3 from its tornus; media from 6; 1” straight, 1° basally subobsolete ; 1° present. Hindwings 1, tapering outwardly to an acute apex; cilia 2: neura- tion 8 veins; 5 and 6 stalked, 7 separate ; rest separate, discoidal obsolete between 4 and stalk of (6+6)
which is continued to base as media. Abdomen very long and slender. Legs rather long; hind tibiae hairy above.
Allied to Pammeces Z., but differing in the absence of the antennal pecten, in the
smooth palpi, in vein 8 of forewings originating at angle, and in the open cell in the hindwings.
1. Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. n. syn.=niveiventris F. & R. |
Zaratha pterodactylella Wkr. Cat. Lep. BM. 29 790 sp. 1 (1864) *. Zaratha ? niveiventris F. & R.. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 Pf. 140° 26 (1875) °*.
Antennae dark bronzy fuscous above, except towards the apex, where about ten or twelve joints are white and serrate, the tip again becoming fuscous; ochreous beneath. Palpi pale ochreous; terminal joint longer than median, fuscous along its under side. Mazillary Palpi silvery white. Mead purplish above; face silvery white. Thorax bronzy fuscous; white beneath. forewings shining yellowish ochreous, shaded along the dorsum with dark bronzy brown, of which an elongate patch, a little beyond the middle, is rather darker than the remainder of the dorsal shade, this darker colouring extending obliquely backward and nearly reaching the costa before the middle ; from the base runs a narrow dark steel-grey streak to the end of the cell, terminated by a dark brownish fuscous transverse spot, a shining pale’ steel-grey streak running along the margin to the apex from its upper angle, ashorter one reaching the termen from its lower angle; costal cilia shining, pale ochreous ; dorsal and terminal cilia bronzy brownish fuscous. Exp. al. 14-16 mm. Hindwings shining, dark bronzy brown; cilia dark brownish fuscous. Abdomen dark brownish fuscous; white beneath. Legs, posterior pair dark brownish fuscous above, white beneath ;
the tibiae hairy, with projecting ochreous scales above the second pair of spurs, these and the terminal three joints of the tarsi silvery white.
Nt. 2 (66010, Bugaba) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: VERA cRUZ: Atoyac (Schumann) ;
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Cordova, I. 1908 (# Knab): tTapasco: Teapa, IIT. (A. 2H. Smith)—GuateMaLa: San Isidro, 1600 ft. (G. C. Champion); Volcan de Atitlan, 2500-3500 ft. (G. C. Champion) ; Las Mercedes, 3000 ft. (G. C. Champion)—PanaMa: cHIRIQUI: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion); Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 ft. (@. C. Champion). South America— JOLOMBIA*: Bogota (Lindig)’—Braziu': aMazons': Ega (Bates)!; Santarem, X. 1884 (J. H. Leech): eserriru santo: 1872 (Schmidt): parana: Castro, 1896 (E. D. Jones).
The series exhibits some variation, in some specimens the costa is darkened towards the base, a small ochreous triangular costal spot, at about one-third, sometimes being conspicuous.
2. Zaratha macrocera F. & R. Zaratha ? macrocera F. & R. Reise Nov. Zool. Lp. 2 Pf. 140°18 (1875) '. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Panama: cHiriqur: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. C. Champion). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft., VI. 1889 (7. H. Smith) ——Braziu’: amazons ': (Bates) '—Purv, E.: Rio Perene (Rosenberg).
LOPHOPTILUS Sircom.
=CypuopHora HS.; =Psacapnora HS.; =Leucoparyne Chmb.
Type 1: Tinea miscella S-D. (Sircom 1848).
Lopuoptius Sircom Zool. 6 2037 (1848). 1 (Type) miscella S-D. (=staintoni Sircom). Stn. NH. Tin. 11 142-3 (1870) ; Wism. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 155-6 (1909).
Type 2: Elachista idaei Z. (HS. 1853). CypHopnora HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 12, 46 no. 77 Pf. 13° 7-9 (1853), 211 sp. 597 (1854); Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 416 no. 480 sp. 632, Tbl. 8, 53 (1876); Rtti-Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 257 (1898) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 186 no. 395 sp. 3569 (1901).
Type 3: Tinea schrankella Hb. (HS. 1853).
Psacapuora HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 13, 48-9 no. 86 Pf. 18° 22-4 (1853).
1 (Type) schrankella Hb. (=*linneella HS. Pf. 13°22; =Jlocupletella HS. Pf. 18° 24).
2 linneella L., HS. Pf. 13° 23.
HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 215-6 no. 86 sp. 616-20 (1854) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 188 no. 404 - sp. 8598-9 (1901).
Type 4: Laverna grandisella Chmb. (Chmb. 1875).
LreucopHryne Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 210-11 (1875).
1 (Type) grandisella Chmb. (=¢ricristatella Chmb.).
Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 152 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc, NH. 2 196, 499, tf. 203°39 (1880) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 543 sp. 6171 (1902).
Lophoptilus will include species hitherto referred to Laverna Crt. (=*Mompha HS.),
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but differing in having 5 and 6 of the hindwings stalked, 2-4, and 7, separate (Laverna has 2~7 separate), and the basal joint of the antenna without pecten. Both genera have 7 and 8 stalked in the forewings, 7 to costa, rest separate.
1. Lophoptilus eloisellus Clms.
(=magnatella Z. ; =lyonetiella Chmb.*; =oenotheraeella Chmb.*)”. .
Laverna eloisella Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat-Se. Phil. 12 171 (1860)*; Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. pp. xiii, 131-2 (1872) *. Phyllocnistis magnatella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23 : 1873 Abh. 315-6 sp. 2° Pf. 4°43 (1873)*. Laverna lyonetiella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 30,51 (1875) *. Laverna oenotherae- ella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 30-2 (1875) °. Laverna magnatella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 73-4 (1877) °. Laverna eloisella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 74 (1877). Laverna eloisella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 151 (1878)*. Laverna? magnatella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 113, 152 (1878)°. Laverna ? eloisella W1sm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 195 (1882) °. Laverna oenotherella Hgn. & Frey Pap. 4 154 (1884)"; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 106 sp. 5727 (1891) ™. Mompha eloisella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 542 sp. 6157 (1902)"°. Laverna eloisella Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 208 (1903) “. Mompha eloisella Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 30 731 (1906) *. |
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States‘“°“—Maine”: Orono, @ Oenothera “— MassacuusEtts*: Beverley, 8, VII. 1868 ®*—PrnnsyLvanta *—* *~4—MaryLanp: Plum. — mer’s Id., VII. 1903 (Busck); Hyattsville, VIII. 1906 (Busck)—Nortu Caro.ina (Morrison, 1884)—Missouri®*”: St. Louis, @ stems Oenothera missouriensis, VILI- IX ***—CoLoRADO: LARRIMER CO.: Loveland, VI-VIILI. 1891 (W. G. Smith )}—Orggaon ®: JOSEPHINE CO."°: Rogue River, 7. V. 1872 (Wism.) °“—Tuxas***: Bosque co. **?: 7.VI - 21.VI. 1876 (Belfrage): s, texas: Brownsville®. Central America—N.W. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (4. . Morrison).
Hagen [Pap. 4 154 (1884)] wrote “ Laverna magnatella, Zell.-Chb. 2 locality? It is different from oenothertella.” This note really means that Laverna grandisella Chmb. (= *magnatella, Mus. Cambr.) is distinct from Laverna eloisella Clms. (=oenotherelia Chmb., Mus. Cambr.), for Busck [Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 767 (1904)] points out that “Chambers’ type of Laverna grandisella (erroneously labeled by himself, Laverna magnatella), is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.”
WALSHIA Clms. Type 1: Walshia amorphella Clms. (Clms. 1864).
Waxsuia Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 418-9 (1864): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am, 240-1 (1872); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 544 sp. 6179 (1902); Wlsm. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 156-7
(1909). Type 2: Elachista rhamniella Z. (Hnmn. 1876),
*Moupua (nec Hb.) Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 422 no. 484 sp. 643, Tbl. 8, 54 (1876) ; Rtti- Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 256 sp. 636 (1898). ‘
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1. Walshia calcarata, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 15.)
Antennae brownish, the last eleven or twelve joints pure white. Palpi with the median joint enlarged by projecting scales above, and more especially beneath, giving it a triangular form; terminal joint stout, somewhat clothed beneath nearly to the apex; white, dusted with brown, except at the extremity of each joint. Head white. Thorax greyish fuscous above, whitish behind; tegulae whitish. Forewings brown and whitish, mixed in about equal proportions, with a lilac gloss about the paler parts, especially below the fold; a stout, square-ended, tuft of brownish ochreous raised scales below the fold at one- third of its length, a ridge of raised scales of the same colour, but delicately striated with brown, crosses the middle of the wing from costa to dorsum; another raised patch, somewhat tinged with fuscous, occurring at the end of the cell, is succeeded by a pale transverse band with lilac reflections, the central fascia being also preceded and followed by the same whitish ground-colour ; three fuscous dots occur at the base of the brownish ochreous cilia below the apex, the tornal cilia tending to greyish. xp. al. 13mm. Hindwings cinereous, dusted with pale brownish ; cilia cinereous, tinged with ochreous towards the apex. Abdomen (missing). Legs brownish, the hind tibiae obliquely banded with white at the base of the first pair of spurs; second pair of spurs densely clothed with a triangular tuft of white scales above ; tarsi slightly annulate with white.
Type 3 (65539) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
The clothing of the spurs of the hind tibiae distinguishes calcarella from amorphella Clms., and detracta Wlsm.
2. Walshia detracta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 14.)
Antennae cinereous, annulate with brownish fuscous; the elongate basal joint fuscous above, pale beneath. Palpt recurved to the vertex, somewhat coarsely clothed nearly to the apex, terminal joint longer than median ; pale cinereous, shaded externally with fuscous nearly to the end of the median joint and above the middle of the terminal joint. Head greyish fuscous above, face steel-whitish. Zhorawx dark greyish fuscous. Forewings dark grevish fuscous to the end of the basal third, with a large concurrent pattern of raised scales, tinged with chestnut-brown beyond the base, especially about the middle of the costa and at the apex, with numerous tufts of raised scales distributed nearly to the apex; cilia brownish cinereous, greyish fuscous at the extreme apex. Hvp.al.15 mm. MHindwings greyish brown; cilia 6, brownish cinereous. Legs greyish fuscous, with whitish bands at the base of each pair of spurs.
Type Q (65538) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (1. H. Smith). Unique.
LAVERNA Crt.
=+ Larvwa Chmwb., laps. cal.; =*Moupna (Hb.) HS., nec Stph.; = Witsonia Clms. Type 1: Laverna ochraceella Crt. (Crt. 1839).
Laverna Crt. Br. Ent. 16 expl. Pl.'735 (1839) ; Stn. List Br. An. BM. XVI. Lp. 3 137-9 (1854) : Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 225, 235-40 Pf. '7- 8° (1854); Frey Tin-Pter. Schweiz 276-83 (1856): Lin. Ent. 14 180-205 (1860); Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 30 882-5 (1864); Stn. NH. Tin. 11 126-49 Pl. 4-6 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 319 sp. 2569-88 (1871) ; Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 130-1 (1872); [t£Zarvwa Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229 (1873): 6 49, 73 (1874)]; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 416-20, Tbl. 8, 53-4 (1876); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 420-7 (1877) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4151-2 (1878); Snln. Vlind. Ned. Micr. 422, 852-60 Pf. 12 - 419-22 (1882) ; Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 117-8 Pf. 5-6:54-5 (1891); Riley, Smith’s List Lp.
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Bor-Am. 106 sp. 5719-38 (1891) ; Rtti-Splr. Lp-Fn. Baden 256-7 (1898) ; eée.; Wism. & Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 45 173-4 (1909).
Type 2: Tinea conturbatella Hb. (HS. 1853).
Mompua (Hb.) HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 12, 46 no. 75 Pf. 18°4-6 (1853), 208-10 sp. 586-93 (1854) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 640, 678-82 tf. 679 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 186-7 sp. 3576-91 (1901) ; Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 541-3 sp. 6148-68 (1902).
Type 3: Wilsonia brevivittella Clms. (Clms. 1864). ,
Witsonra Clms. Pr. Ent. Soc. Phil. 2 428-9 (1864) : Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 253-4 (1872) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 166 (1878) ; Busck Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 218 (1908).
Laverna Crt. is here used for species with Hindwings 8 veins, all separate: Fore- wings 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, rest separate: Antennae, basicerite with well-developed pecten.
1. Laverna farinacea, sp. n.
Antennae mealy grey, annulate with fuscous. Palpi mealy grey, the median joint somewhat expanded at the apex; terminal joint about as long as the median, with three fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax mealy greyish; face whiter. forewings mealy grey, with transverse reddish cupreous bands in which are some slightly raised black scales ; the first band, commencing close to the base of the costa, has its” inner edge marked by black scales, and runs obliquely outward to the dorsum, its outer side dilated on the cell and ill-defined ; the second, parallel with it, terminates in a spot of raised scales on the dorsum, its outer side ill-defined and nearly coalescing with a small triangular costal patch of the same colour beyond the middle ; a third band, almost parallel with the termen, runs inward to the dorsum from: the costal cilia, and is interrupted by a minute black streak beyond the end of the cell; a dark line follows the margin around the apex and termen, giving an angular appearance to the wing, and two slender dark lines run through the mealy terminal cilia; the dorsal cilia inclining to cupreous. Exp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish cupreous. Abdomen cinereous. Legs whitish cinereous, the tibiae and tarsi banded externally with blackish.
Type 2 (66043) ; g (66042) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT'T. (66044-5) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Mexico: evEerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens.
2. Laverna obsessa, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 16.)
Antennae (2) simple ; fuscous. Palpi evenly recurved, slender ; pale cinereous, the terminal joint as long as the median, with a fuscous spot beneath, its apex also fuscous ; median joint fuscous externally nearly to its apex. Head bronzy fuscous. Z'horaa: bronzy fuscous anteriorly ; posteriorly pale brassy yellowish. Forewings narrow, elongate ; shining, brassy brownish, with a dark purplish grey patch on the costa, from the middle to the commencement of the cilia, containing at its lower edge a bright reddish cupreous spot in which are some slightly raised scales, a similar spot lying near the end of the fold below and before it; there is also a reddish cupreous patch, near the base of the costa, reaching to the fold and somewhat produced outward ; the apex and termen are much shaded with dark fuscous, an inverted pale brassy yellowish streak separating the apical from the costal shade and running to the dorsum at the outer end of the fold. Hap. al.9 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale bronzy fuscous. (missing). :
Type 3 (66040) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Saiv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VII. (H.-H. Smith). Unique.
Abdomen and Legs
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3. Laverna pernota, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 17.)
Antennae fuscous. Palpi recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, densely but smoothly clothed, having thus a thickened appearance ; dark fawn-brown, with indistinct paler speckling. Head shining, purplish fuscous, covered with large flat scales. Thorax dark purplish fuscous, with a triangular whitish ochreous patch posteriorly. Horewings pale fawn-ochreous, with a small dark purplish fuscous shoulder- patch at the base of the costa; some dark fawn-brown speckling, especially on the outer half of the wing, tending to form dark shading along the margins, with an indication of marginal spots around the apex and termen, through confluence of the otherwise more scattered dark scales ; there is a black dot at the end of the cell, another in the fold beyond its middle, and the whole wing-surface in certain lights exhibits a pearly lilac lustre; cilia dark brownish; underside dark purplish fuscous, becoming brassy ochreous around the base of the cilia towards the apex. Ezxp.al.14mm. Hindwings narrow, acuminate ; shining, bronzy brown; cilia dark brown. Abdomen dark fawn-brown. Legs dark fawn- brown, paler on their inner sides.
Type 2 (66041) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
4, Laverna agonistes, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 12.)
Antennae pale ochreous, narrowly annulate with fuscous; basal joint with short pecten. Palpi with the terminal and median joints of about equal length, the latter somewhat roughened by projecting scales ‘beneath towards its apex; terminal stout, but sharply acuminate; pale ochreous, with pale fuscous sprinkling externally. Head and Thoraa pale ochreous. Forewings narrow, elongate, with depressed acuminate apex ; pale ochreous, mottled with pale and dark olivaceous brown and a few black scales ; with three or four large tufts of raised pale ochreous scales lying along the line of the fold, and one between the fold and the dorsum near the base; the wing-pattern is so confused as to be scarcely capable of description, its prominent feature being a dark brown median shade above the fold, broken into outwardly angulate or oblique streaks beyond the middle, accompanied by two or three small dots of white scales on and beyond the outer half of the cell, while a few jet-black scales are placed along the upper edges of the two outer raised scale-tufts, as well as around the apex and termen and in the speckled whitish cinereous cilia; there is a patch of shining rosy pink at the end of the cell, another before it on the cell, and an elongate patch of the same along the middle of the costa; costal cilia shining pale ochreous, dorsal cilia iridescent greyish fuscous. Hep. al. 16 mm. Hindwings (—1) tapering, acute; iridescent bronzy brownish grey; cilia iridescent greyish fuscous. Abdomen ochreous, mixed with brownish grey, with pale shining steel-grey transverse bands; pale ochreous beneath. Legs greyish brown, indistinctly banded with whitish ochreous.
Type 3 (66025) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft. (G@. C. Champion). Unique.
[Laverna gleditschiella Chmb.
Laverna? (Anybia ?) gleditschiaeella Chmb. Can. Ent. 8 135-7 (1876)*. Laverna gleditschiaella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 232-4 (1877)*; Mompha gleditschiaeella Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 542 sp. 6159 (1902) °. Hab. United States—Kunrucxy!%.
Writing under the heading “ Insects feeding on Gleditschia” (Can. Ent. 9 231-5) Chambers remarked (J. c. 234) “I have been informed that thorns of various species of Acacia (in a large sense) in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, are perforated by insect borings similar to those of Laverna gleditschiaeella in the Honey Locust, but I
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have not been able to procure specimens of the insect architect. Prof. Sumichrast mentions similar borings in Acacias in Mexico (referred to in a volume of the American Naturalist—I write from recollection and cannot refer to the volume or page). These, however, like those of which Mr. Belt gives such an entertaining account in ‘ The Naturalist in Nicaragua,’ were tenanted by ants,” ete. |
PERIMEDE Chmb. Type: Perimede errantella Chmb. (Chmb. 1874).
Perimepe Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 51-2 (1874): 9 147 (1877): 11 9 (1879): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 196, 199, tf. 203+ 35 (1880).
1. Perimede catapasta, sp. n.
Antennae brownish grey. Palpi slightly recurved, the median and terminal joints about equal in length and thickness, smooth; shining, brownish grey. Head shining, brownish grey. Thorax brownish grey. Forewings dull brownish grey, with a faint indication of a spot in the middle of the fold, a similar dark spot on the disc a little beyond it, and a third, scarcely visible, at the end of the cell; a small whitish costal spot before the apex is followed by a small black spot at the apex, where is also a dark shade-line running through the brownish cinereous cilia; underside with a blackish spot at the apex and one or two terminal dots. Exp.al.18 mm. Hindwings narrower than the forewings; dull pale stone-ochreous on their basal half, where they are sprinkled along the costa and across the middle with numerous elongate blackish scales, becoming brownish grey towards the apex; cilia pale brownish cinereous ; underside with a blackish spot at the apex, and one or two terminal dots. -Abdomen pale stone-ochreous at the base and about the anal segments, with a broad blackish band before the middle, and alternate brownish and pale cinereous bands behind it. Legs pale cinereous, the tibiae shaded with brownish grey externally, the tarsal joints banded with the same.
Type 3 (66038) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PI. (66039) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (HZ. H. Smith). Two specimens.
Fam. 2. GELECHIADAE. SITOTROGA Hnmn.
Type: Alucita cerealella Olvr. (Hnmn. 1870).
Srrorroca Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 287 no. 428 sp. 426 (1870), Tbl. 5, 41 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 169 (1871); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 571 no. 2 (1895); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25, 772, 781-2 Pf. 28° 3 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 285-6 no.6 (1904).
1. Sitotroga cerealella Olvr.
=hordei (Bkmn.) Kby.%®; =pyrophagella Kilr.2; =melanarthra Lwr.¥
Alucita cerealella Olvr. Enc. Méth. IV. (Ins. 1) 117, 121 no. 15 (1789)*. [Phalaena hordet Bkmn. Grund. Teutsch-Landswirths ed. 4, 589 (1790) ; (no. 9, 149 teste Prout) Sherborn Ind. An. 467] °. Tinea hordei Kby. Intr. Ent. 1 172-3 (1815) *. Butaks cerealella Crt. Jr. Roy. Agr. Soc. Engl. 7 84-9 (1846)*: Farm Ins. 310-15 (1860) °, Anacampsis (Butalis) cerealella Harris Treat. Ins. 392-402 (1852)°. Tinea pyrophagella Kilr. NG. Schad]. Ins. II. 383 Pf. 81+ 7-7¢ (1853) ". Tinea (Gelechia) pyrophagella Kllr. Verh. ZB. Ver. Wien 4 SB. 6-9
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(1854) °. Gelechia cerealella Stn. List Br. An. BM. XVI. Lp. 3 83 no. 85 (1854) °. Sitotroga cerealella Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 287 no. 426 (1870) *°. Gelechia melanarthra Lwr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 25 416-7 (1900). Sitotroga cerealella Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 157 sp. 2902 (1901); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496 sp. 5552 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 782 Pf. 28:3 (1903); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 286 sp. 50 (1904); Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 591 (1905) *°; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 928 sp. 22 (1908) *"; eéc.
Hab. EUROPE 8&1?) ASTA (1), AUSTRALIA (1), AFRICA—CapsE
CoLoNy: TRANSKEI: Umtala, 1890 (Ff. Barrett, 9401)—Masnonananp: Salisbury, 22-7. I. 1895 (&. Coryndon, 6225)—Canartizs “1°—Mapetras "72, AMERICA, N-C. North America “”-!, Central America—MExICO: VERA cRUZ: Cordova, XII. 1907 (Ff. Knab): currrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (4. H. Smith): puraneo: Ciudad, 8100 ft. (Forrer): oaxaca: Salina Cruz (W. Schaus)—@® stored grain, maize, wheat, rice, ete.
CATALEXIS, gen. n. (xarddekts =a choosing.)
Type: Catalexis tapinota Wlsm. (Tab. 1. fig. 18.)
J. H. Durrant, del.
5. Catalexis tapinota Wlsm. 9.
Antennae (—1), slightly serrate ; basal joint without’ pecten. Labial Palpi recurved, terminal joint shorter
than median; median joint without brush-like scales beneath. Mawillury Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum present. Head and Thorax smooth. vrewings, costa straight, or slightly depressed beyond middle, apex obtusely depressed, termen oblique, dorsum nearly parallel with costa, but slightly narrowing towards base: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa; 9 out of stalk of 74+ 8; 2-6 separate. Hindwings 1, costa straight, apex acuminate, scarcely depressed, termen very slightly sinuate, oblique, tornus pronounced, dorsum very slightly rounded, almost parallel with costa: neuration 8 veins; 5 cubital, 2-5 remote; 6 and 7 stalked. Abdomen normal. Legs smooth.
Perhaps allied to Logisis Wlsm., but differing in the form of the palpi, and in the
stalking of HW: 6-7. It differs from Brachmia Hb. in FW: 2-3 and HW: 3-4 being separate, not stalked; from Acanthophila Hnmn. in FW: 7-8 not being coincident; and from Stomopteryx Hnmn. in having FW: 9 out of stalk of 7+-8.
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1. Catalexis tapinota, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 18.)
Antennae silvery whitish, shaded with pale fawn-brown towards the base. Palpi whitish ochreous, whiter on their inner sides, unspotted. Head shining whitish ochreous, with some iridescent steely bluish scales above. Thorax steely grey, the tegulae ochreous. Forewings fawn-brownish, shaded with dark fuscous (almost black), a very narrow streak of this along the base of the costa to one-fifth, an elongate patch from the base of the dorsum below the fold, extending nearly to the dorsal cilia; above it a shorter cloud-like patch on the cell commencing before and extending a little beyond the middle of the wing; the whole apical fourth is overlaid with dark fuscous, the anterior margin of this dark patch lying almost parallel to the termen, but somewhat attenuated to the apex, a few fawn-brown scales in this patch opposite to the termen ; cilia pale brownish ochreous, shaded with fuscous about the tornus. Exp. al. 12mm. Hindwings dark fuscous, with some brownish ochreous scales intermixed along the costa and dorsum; cilia dark fuscous. Abdomen fawn-brownish, shaded with fuscous. Legs whitish
ochreous, unspotted; anterior and median legs somewhat shaded above with fuscous. Type 2 (65877) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab, GuateMALA: VERA Paz: Panima (G. C. Champion). Unique.
LOGISIS, gen. n. (Adytous = Treason.)
Type: Logisis achroea Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 19.)
J. H. Durrant, del. 6. Logists achroea Wlsm. 9.
Antennae (?) %, simple, slightly dentate towards apex ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi as long as the head and thorax, projecting; median joint straight, with long upstanding scales above, these higher towards the base, but combining with others at the apex, from the lower side, to form a projection beyond the base of the smooth, slender, upstanding terminal joint. Mawillary Palpi very short. Haustellum scaled. Head and Thorax smooth, with a metathoracic tuft on either side posteriorly. orewings slightly convex on their basal half, straightened beyond, the apex moderately depressed, termen oblique, not sinuate: neuration 12 veins; 9 out of stalk of 7 and 8, 7 to costa ; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings somewLat narrowed towards base, widening outwardly, trepezoidal ; costa straight, apex obtuse, termen subsinuate, thence rounded, dorsum receding ; with a strong tuft of hairs above at the base of vein 1*; cilia very long, almost as long as width ‘of wing towards base: newration 8 veins; 3 and 4 remote; 5 straight, approximate to 6; 6 aud 7 separate,
but approximating; radius connected to subcosta by cross-vein. Abdomen long, smooth. Legs (hind legs missing, probably long).
The genera Logisis and Catalewis have a peculiar form, and are perhaps charac- teristic of tropical America. Their true affinities in the absence of described con
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necting forms is somewhat obscure, but, according to the scheme of neuration, relationship should be sought among the derivatives of Aristotelia Hb.
1. Logisis achroea, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 19.)
Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi very pale ochreous, the median joint shaded with fawn-brown. Head and Thorax shining, pale ochreous. Forewings shining, very pale ochreous, somewhat shaded along the cell, on the fold, and along the dorsum with fawn-brown; a brown spot below the costa near the base, and a narrow brown costal shade at the extreme base; cilia pale ochreous. Exp. al. 40 mm. Hindwings shining, straw-grey ; cilia very pale ochreous. Abdomen fawn-brown, mixed with pale ochreous, Legs (missing).
Type Q (65878) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Costa Rica: Volcan de Irazu, 6000-7000 ft. (H. Rogers). Unique. —
The specimen is in poor condition, but representing a distinct and remarkable form has been thought worthy of description.
MEGACRASPEDUS Z. =Avutonepa Busck (=§ Nzpa Chmb.).
Type 1: Ypsolophus (Megacraspedus) dolosellus Z. (HS. 1853),
Yersotoruus F.(C.) Mxeacrasrepus Z. Isis 382 189-90 sp. 15-16 (1839). Murcacraspepus HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 65 Pf. 12: 48-4 (1853), 157 sp. 392-6 (1854) ; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 348-50 no. 451 sp. 580-4 (1874), Tbl. 1, 48 (1876) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 303 no. 231 sp. 2165-73 (1871); Meyr. Tr. NZ. Inst. 18 162-3 (1886) ; Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891 109 Pf. 5°47 (1891): Ent. Rec. 9 140 (1897) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 161 no. 3841 sp. 3001-11 (1901) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 266 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soe. NSW, 29 257, 272-83 no. 4 sp. 26-46 (1904).
Type 2: Neda plutella Chmb. (Chmb. 1874; Busck 1902).
Avutonepa Busck.=§ Nepa Chmb. Can, Ent. 6 243-4 (1874) : Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 157 (1878): Jr. Cin. Soc. NH. 2 198 tf. 203° 20 (1880). Avronepa Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496 sp. 5553 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 782 Pf. 28-4 (1903).
1. Megacraspedus exilis, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 20.)
Antennae dark bronzy brown. Palpt white, the posterior two-thirds of the long triangular tuft on median joint dark bronzy brown; underside of basal joint dark brown at apex. Head and median portion of Thorax white, the sides and tegulae dark brown. Forewings white, profusely irrorated with dark bronzy brown scaling, through which runs a longitudinal blackish median streak from base to apex, which, except for a slight step upward about the end of the cell, is very nearly straight throughout ; the brown dusting is much condensed along its upper edge on the basal half, and there is a small detached blackish subcostal spot at one-third from the base; the costa is very narrowly, and the dorsum narrowly, pure white ; cilia white, with a broken line of blackish scales along their base, and another before their middle, the black median streak running through them at the extreme apex. Exp. al.12 mm. Hindwings shining, very pale bluish grey, cilia pale ochreous, Abdomen and Legs brownish grey, the hairs on the upper sides of the tibiae whitish.
Type 2 (65759) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: euerreRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (A. H. Smith). Unique.
Exceedingly near plutella Chmb., but differing in its larger size, in the white thorax, and in the more pronounced detached costal spot.
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ARISTOTELIA Hb.
= Curysorora Clms. (=§ Nowra Clms.) ; = Nannopra Hnmn.; =§ Ezoarzs Humn. ;= Xysto pHora Hnmn-Wk. (= § Dozyrxora Hnmn.); = Monocnuroa Hnmn.; = § Laupzrores
Hnomn.; = Evcatorrus Wlsm.
Type 1: Tinea decurtella Hb. Pf. 45-311 (Hb. 1826).
Axistorenia Hb. Verz. Schm. 424 sp. 4133 (1826) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 572-7 no. 4 sp. 1-21 tf. 572 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 63-8 no. 10 sp. 21-32 (1897); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 498-9 sp. 5575-91 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 794-804 Pf. 29°11 (1903) : 27 755-7 (1904): 30 724-5 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 87 (1909); Meyr. Pr. Lin. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 286-92 no. 7 sp. 51-60 (1904) : Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 17 138 (1906) : 18 437-9 (1908) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 724 (1908) : Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 869-70 (1909) ; Wlsm. Fn. Haw. 1 478-82, 744 no. 5 sp. 11-19 Pf. 18-17-25 (1907) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 9380-1 no. 14 sp. 25-6 (1908).
Type 2: Nomia lingulacella Clms. (Clms. 1860).
Curysorora Clms. = § Nomura Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 167-8 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 123-4 (1872). Curysopora Clms. (nn.) Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Phil. 12 362 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. 123, 158 (1872) ; Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 156 no. 319 sp. 2894-7 (1901) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 497-8 sp. 5572-3 (1902) : Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 792-3 Pf. 29-9 (1903) ; Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 931-2 no. 15 sp. 27 Pf. 51: 7 (1908).
In Chrysopora lingulacella Clms., as also in Nannodia stipella Hb. and hermannella F., vein HW: 6, though weak, is remote from 7 and parallel with the fold; the discoidal is traceable, and Meyrick was justified in referring the types of Mannodia Humn. to Aristotelia Hb.
Type 3: Tinea stipella Hb. Nannop1a Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 284-5 no. 426 sp. 423-4 (1870), Thl. 5, 41 no. 426 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 168 (1871); Sunln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 432, 690-2 no. 53 sp. 1-2 Pf. 9° 286 (1882).
Type 4: Oecophora brizella Tr.
§ Exearrs Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 295-8 no. 482 sp. 486-41 (1870), Tbl. 5, 42 no. 432 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 169-70 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 431, 681-4 no. 50 sp. 1-3 Pf. 9° 289 (1882).
Type 5: Anacampsis pulveratella HS.
XystopHora Hnmn-Wk. = § Dorrrzora Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 298-308 no. 4383 sp. 442-60 (1870): Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 170 (1871); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 359-61 no. 19 (1877). XysropHora Hnmn-Wk. (nn.) Tbl. 6 no. 483, 42 no. 433 (1876) ; Snln. Viind. Nederl. Micr. 431-2, 684-8 no. 51 sp. 1-5 Pf. 9° 287, 12-404" (1882); Drnt. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889 p. cexxiv (1889); Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 42 (1895) 5 Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 152-3 no. 310 sp. 2786-2824 (1901).
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Type 6: Tinea tenebrella Hb. (Hnmn. 1870).
Monocuroa Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 308-9 no. 434 sp. 461 (1870), Tbl. 6, 43 no. 434 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 170 (1871).
Type 7: Tinea atrella (Hb.?) Hw.
§ Lauprores Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 190, 309-11 no. 435 sp. 462-6 (1870), Tbl.6, 43 no 435 (1876) ; Stn. Mo. Mag. 7 170-1 (1871).
Type 8: Eucatoptus penicillata Wilsm. (Wlsm. 1897).
Evcatortus Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 69-71 no. 11 sp. 83-6 (1897); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 794-5 (1903).
1. Aristotelia corallina, sp. n.
Antennae blackish. Palpi with the median joint somewhat expanded outwardly ; cream-whitish, banded externally with a brownish shade ; terminal joint whitish, with two blackish bands. Head rosy cream- colour; Thorax the same, but with a stronger reddish tinge, the tegulae blackish. Forewzngs blackish, the dorsum rich rosy reddish, this colour diffused upward along the termen and over the terminal cilia through which runs a somewhat obscurely reduplicated dark shade-line ; terminal cilia blackish, preceded by three small rosy reddish costal spots. Ewp. al. 12 mm. Hindwings dark grey; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs brownish cinereous, broadly banded with fuscous externally on each joint.
Type 3 (65760) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65762) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (4. H. Smith). Three
specimens.
The rosy cream of the head, thorax, and dorsum, contrasted with the blackish forewings, renders this species somewhat conspicuous.
2. Aristotelia howardi, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 21.)
Antennae blackish, with a series of elongate white spots along the upper side; basal joint reddish ochreous. Palpi (broken, the basal joint indicating that they were pale ochreous, or whitish, on their inner sides, and banded, or shaded, with brown, or blackish, externally). Head rosy ochreous. Thorax mottled with reddish brown and ochreous, with a grey median patch. Forewings milk-white, tinged with rosy pink along the costa, except at the base and along the dorsum beyond the middle; at the base is a tawny-red patch, wider on the dorsum than on the costa, narrowly darkened to black along its oblique outer margin; after an oblique fascia of the white ground-colour, which is produced outward along the dorsum, where it is tinged with bright ochreous, a rather oblique, mixed black and reddish grey streak descends from the costa at one-fourth, crossing the cell, and bent outward and upward at its lower extremity enclosing above it a patch of the ground-colour profusely stippled with pale rosy grey, bounded on its outer side by a darker, tawny reddish grey quadrangular costal spot, extending downward to an almost circular ochreous spot at the end of the cell ; the terminal area is thickly sprinkled with rust-brown, and contains some black spots, notably two on the costa before the apex, in strong contrast to the rosy pink by which they are separated and partially surrounded ; cilia whitish cinereous, with three pale greyish wavy shade-lines running through them; underside fuscous, with the middle of the costa narrowly touched with white, a rosy white streak running through the costal cilia. Hap. al. 13°5 mm. Hindwings shining, steel-grey, with a bright rosy iridescence ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen
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grey. Legs whitish, the hind tibiae with three black bands externally, the tarsi with fuscous shade-
_ bands, also chiefly on their outer sides. Type 3 (5841 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.
Hab. Mexico: sonora: San José de Guaymas, 10. 1V. (Dr. LZ. O. Howard). Unique.
A fine species of the group of roseosuffusella Clms., noticeable through the pure milk-white ground-colour, tinged in places with rosy pink and bright ochreous, and the sharply defined, entirely dark, basal patch, which distinguishes it from sqguamigera Wlsm., to which it is perhaps most nearly allied.
3. Aristotelia squamigera, sp. n.
Antennae fuscous, with whitish annulations, more distinct on the anterior surface. recurved, terminal joint scarcely longer than the median, acuminate; rosy whitish, sprinkled with brownish fuscous, an ill-defined band of the darker colour at the base and another before the apex of the median joint; also two ill-defined bands before and beyond the middle of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax whitish grey, sprinkled with brownish fuscous; the latter with a few fawn-ochreous scales at the sides and behind. Forewings rosy white, profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; an olivaceous brown patch at the base, much wider on the dorsum than on the costa, its outer edge oblique and somewhat clearly defined, its surface sprinkled, especially towards the base, with whitish scales; at about one- third a strong olivaceous brown costal patch, dilated obliquely outward and downward to the fold, is terminated at its outer extremity by a blackish spot; beyond the middle a triangular olive-brown costal patch is terminated by a line of blackish scales truncating its apex on the cell, where it is joined by a fawn-ochreous patch extending to the dorsum, but sprinkled about the end of the fold with olive-brown scaling ; a short blackish dash cuts the pale fascia beyond the end of the cell, the terminal area being sprinkled with olive-brown leading up to some blackish marginal spots at the base of the greyish ochreous cilia through which run two curved shade-lines enclosing the white apex; there is a small brownish ochreous streak below the fold adjoining the lower edge of the second dark patch; underside somewhat ochreous, profusely sprinkled along the middle with greyish fuscous scaling, not especially noticeable at the base. Exp, al. 10-12 mm. Hindwings rather shining brassy grey, the dorsal half profusely dusted with elongate greyish fuscous scales ; cilia ochreous, tinged with grey, very long on the costa in the 33 underside less ochreous than the forewings, and more profusely scaled with greyish fuscous beyond the base throughout. Abdomen greyish ochreous, much sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; with whitish lines along the margins of the segments beneath. Legs whitish, with strong fuscous sealing in transverse bands across the tibiae, and on the outer sides of the tarsi. .
Type $ (65763) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PI'T. (65765, 65770) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab, Mexico: @uERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (i. HH. Smith). Seven
specimens.
Palpi moderately smooth,
Closely allied to roseosuffusella Clms., and agreeing fairly in the position of the white costal marks, which in both species extend with more or less suffusion across the wings, but sguamigera lacks the pale fawn colouring on the dorsum, and the strone rosy tint which usually accompanies this; moreover, the sprinkling of dark scales, on the otherwise pale underside of both wings, is not found in Clemens’ Species, and the very long costal cilia, commencing at the base of the hindwings, is very characteristic.
4, Aristotelia hieroglyphica, sp. n.
Antennae minutely serrate towards the apex; brown, with white annulations, the basal joint with a white ring round its apex. Palpi dull brownish white, the median joint with two fawn-brown bars externally ;
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TINEINA. PLATE I. LAVERNIDAE, GELECHIADAE.
Page Cosmopterya irrubricata Wism. .. (Type ¢ 65991) ...... ... Atoyac, Mexico ............ 4 Cosmopterya ochleria Wism. — — — (Type d 65993) - -- -- - Teapa, Mexico - —--—----— 5 Cosmopterya astrapias Wism..... (Type 2 65996) .......-.--- Teapa, Mexico ............ 5 Synallagma busckellum Engel — — (Q 33604)- -----~-~--— Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania(US.) 11 Pseudastasia opulenta Wism. .... (Type 5 65998) ....-....+- Bugaba, Panama .......... 2 Embola dentifer Wism. - — — — — (Type ¢ 66004) ------ Cuernavaca, Mexico ~--- 4 Pammeces phlogophora Wlsm..... (Type g 65540) ........-... Bugaba, Panama .......... 11 Homaledra knabi Wism. — — — — (Type 2 5972: US. Nat. Mus.) Cordova, Mexico— - - —- — - 9 Stilbosis incincta Wism. ......-- (Type ¢ 65542) .........-- Teapa, Mexico ............ 8 Stilbosis juvenis Wism. — — — — - (Type 2 66024) ------ Amula, Mexico —- — — - — - 8 Eritarbes otiosa Wism........... (Type ¢ 66026) ........--.. Teapa, Mexico .........-.. 7 Laverna agonistes Wism. — — — - (Type ¢ 66025) ----—-- Totonicapam, Guatemala —- - 17 Homoeoprepes trochiloides Wism... (Type 2 66037) «2... cee eee V. de Irazu, Costa Rica .... 10 Walshia detracta Wism. - — — — (Type 9 65538) - ---- - Amula, Mexico —- - —~- —- - —- 15 Walshia calcarata Wlsm. ...... (Type ¢ 65589) .........6-- Teapa, Mexico ............ 15 Laverna obsessa Wism. - - — — — (Type ¢ 66040) ------ Amula, Mexico - - - - - - 16 Laverna pernota Wism. .......- (Type 2 66041)..... se eee ee Amula, Mexico ............ 17: Catalexis tapinota Wism. — — — — (Type @ 65877) ------ Panima, Guatemala - —-—-— 20 Logisis achroea Wlsm. ........-. (Type 2 65878) .....-..---- V. de Irazu, Costa Rica .... 21 Megacraspedus exilis Wism. — — — (Type 2 65759) ----- - Amula, Mexico ~ —- - —- - - 21 Aristotelia howardi Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 5841: US. Nat. Mus.) San José de Guaymas, Mexico. 23 Aristotelia dasypoda Wism. - — — (Type ¢ 65826) - --—-——-— Teapa, Mexico ~ ----- 25 Aristotelia sarcodes Wism. ...... (Type ¢ 5842: US. Nat. Mus.) Tabernilla, Panama ........ 26 Cathegesis tridentella Wism. — — — (Type do 65743) - - -—-—- — Amula, Mexico - - - —- - — 28 Systasiota leucura Wism......-.. (Type ¢ 65736) .... 6... 0 eee Atoyac, Mexico.........-.. 29 Holophysis quadrimaculata Wlism.— (Type ¢ 65716) ------ Teapa, Mexico - —- —- - - - 30 Holophysis wanthostoma Wlsm. .. (Type d 65785) .....---++-- Omilteme, Mexico .......... 31 Perioristica chalcopera Wism. — — (Type ¢ 65751) -----—- Amula, Mexico — - —- -— - — 32 Diastaltica separabilis Wism. .... (Type d 65725) 1.0... eee ee V.de Agua, Guatemala .... 33 Anacampsis rhabdodes Wism. — — (Type d 65708) ----—- - Teapa, Mexico - —--—--—- 36 Anacampsis glaphyra Wism. .... (Type go 65738) ....-..- +4 Atoyac, Mexico ............ 31 Anacampsis titanota Wism. - — — (Type g 65750) - ---—- - Panima, Guatemala --—--— 38 Anacampsis ambusta W1sm....... (Type ¢ 65706) .....+...--- Teapa, Mexico ............ 40 Anacampsis episema Wism. — — - (Type 6 65737) - --- -- Atoyac, Mexico — - - — - - 37
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the terminal, which is longer than the median and very slender, sprinkled and annulate with darker brown. Head fawn-brown, mixed with greyish fuscous; the Thorax darker brown, mixed with pale cinereous. Forewings dark fawn-brown, paler along the dorsal half, with a pale patch at the lower angle of the cell; a whitish cinereous fascia leaves the costa at about one-sixth, running obliquely outward to the fold, but not traceable below it—this fascia is somewhat widened, showing a tendency to reduplication by brown scales along its middle ; parallel with this is a short oblique costal streak before the middle, and beyond the middle is another, converging at its apex with a similar inverted costal streak from before the end of the wing, from the inner edge of the first a narrow line of the same colour crosses the fold inward, but: does not reach the dorsum ; between these markings a slight suffusion of blackish scales extends from base to apex, and there are also some shining steel-grey scales about the ends of the second and third costal streaks, and in a small separate patch above the tornus; cilia pale cinereous, with a pinkish tinge, merging to pale greyish fuscous on the dorsum. Hap.al. 11mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish fuscous, with a slight rosy tinge. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs whitish, with oblique brown tibial and tarsal bands externally.
Type 3 (65822, Teapa) Mus. Wlism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PT. (65823) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, IL]. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
This differs from pyrodercia Wlsm. in having more abundant sprinkling of blackish scales, and in the two black patches on the cell ; also in the silvery scaling being very slight and inconspicuous, this, however, may depend somewhat on the condition of the specimens. |
5. Aristotelia dasypoda, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 22.)
Antennae dark fuscous, spotted with white above. Palpi whitish, with two brownish bands around the median joint, and a fuscous shade-band beyond the middle of the terminal, of which the tip is also fuscous. Head brownish ochreous. Thorax ferruginous, with a steely grey sheen above, and a steel- whitish transverse band posteriorly. Forewings ferruginous, with some black scaling, and three outwardly oblique white streaks from the costa, all more or less mixed with shining steely scales; the first, at about one-fifth, is reduplicated, margined on its inner side with black scales which become concentrated in a spot resting on the fold, and reaches with its lustrous steely apex nearly to the dorsum at one-third; the second, single, reaching to a blackish spot on the fold and produced again below it in shining steel-grey to the dorsum beyond the middle; the third, from a little beyond the middle of the costa, passes on the outer side of a black dot at the end of the cell, to which the steel-grey scaling of the second streak extends, where it meets the apex of a fourth, similar, but inverted oblique white streak, coming from the costal cilia ; beyond this again is some black scaling extending outward to the apex; a small detached steely streak above the flexus, and a few steely scales above the tornus complete the rather confused pattern ; cilia greyish ochreous, shaded with fuscous, some steely scales along their base. Hap.al.ll1 mm. Hindwings and cilia rather pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen (missing). Legs white, with three brownish fuscous bands on the hind tibiae and three on the tarsi; anterior pair some- what similarly coloured, but with a thick-set projecting brush of fuscous scales on the underside of the tibiae of the-d.
Type 3 (65826, Teapa) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (76077, 76079, 76100) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies—JaMAica: st. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 24.XII - 2.1. 1905 (Wism.). Eleven specimens.
The projecting brush of scales on the front tibiae of the ¢ distinguishes dasypoda
from any known species of the genus. BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., April 1910. ee
26 HETEROCERA.
6. Aristotelia pyrodercia, sp. n. . 7 . Antennae delicately annulated with black and white. Palpi yellowish white, the median joint twice annulated with brassy brown; terminal joint longer than the median, with three blackish annulations, widening in succession from the base. Head pale buff-brown. Thorax pale buff-brown, with a rather shining steel-brown median streak. Forewings yellowish brown, crossed by oblique whitish streaks mixed with shining steel-like metallic scales, some minute blackish scales intermixed along their margins ; a slender steely line, commencing at the base of the costa, crosses the fold obliquely outward to the dorsum, beyond it is a broader whitish costal streak, also crossing the fold obliquely outward, but scarcely reaching the dorsum; a third steely streak, from the costa before the middle, tending obliquely outward, is enlarged at the lower end of the cell and reverts to the middle of the dorsum, it is preceded by a pale plical spot margined on its inner side by black scales ; beyond this, about the middle of the costa, an oblique whitish streak tends outward to the end of the cell where it meets a more conspicuous white streak inverted from the costal cilia, both mixed with pale steel and blackish scales; beyond the last white costal streak the costal cilia are greyish fuscous, with two inverted whitish streaklets at their base, a third shining white streak following the termen at the base of the whitish cilia through which run two dark shade-lines terminating before the tornus where a yellowish white line in the tornal cilia interrupts them ; near the base of this is a luminous steely spot, with some minute black scales along the margin. vp. al.12 mm. Hindwings and cilia tawny greyish. Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs whitish, banded externally on the tibiae and tarsi with brownish fuscous. Type 2 (65774) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT (65775) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Mexico: @uerrERo: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft, X. (H. H. Smith); Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (1. H. Smith). Three specimens.
This species differs from hieroglyphica Wlsm. in the more olivaceous brownish- ochreous ground-colour which lacks the blackish shades, in the basal half especially, and the silvery markings connected with the outer streaks are more conspicuous.
7. Aristotelia sarcodes,.sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 23.)
Antennae black, with elongate white spots along the upper side; basal joint white, with a black line beneath and a spot above. Palpi white, median joint -with two black bands not reaching the upper surface ; terminal joint with four black bands of which the outer two only complete its circumference. Head pale brownish, mixed with whitish scales. Thorax pale rust-brown, with some silvery median scales. Forewings yellowish brown, or light rust-brown, with white and shining silvery costal and dorsal streaks, more or less confluent on the wing-middle, and with two, noticeable, rosy flesh-coloured, short length-streaks, one at the upper edge of the outer end of the cell, the other wider, beyond the end of the cell; there is a rather oblique white costal streak, at one-fifth, with a few black scales along its inner edge, its outer half touched with shining silvery ; this meets the apex of a short silvery dorsal streak, at’ about one-fourth, and is followed by a second, shorter, silvery and white costal streak to which there is no corresponding dorsal one ; a third, silvery and white costal streak, is scarcely beyond the middle, and is interrupted by the first rosy flesh-coloured streak before joining a longer silvery oblique streak from the middle of the dorsum; beyond this again are four short white costal streaks before the apex, the first two sometimes confluent, and both tipped with silvery, the second rosy flesh-coloured length-streak separating them from a long silvery dorsal streak arising obliquely outward from near the tornus; there are also a few silvery scales on the termen below the outer white costal streak which occupies the apex and apical cilia; terminal cilia whitish, touched with brown ‘on the middle of the termen and at the tornus. Exp.al.10 mm. Hindwings dark slaty grey, with a strong rosy iridescence; cilia brownish grey; ¢ with dull ochreous subcostal hair-pencil. Abdomen grey. Legs white, hind tibiae and tarsi with black bands across their outer sides.
* Type & (5842, Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus,
Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, 1907 (A. Busch). Unique.
CATHEGESIS. 27
CATHEGESIS, gen. n.
(xaGijynots =a leading.)
Type: Cathegesis vinitincta Wlsm.
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7. Cathegesis vinitincta Wilsm. @.
J. H. Durrant, del.
Antennae 2, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi compressed, median joint thickened with smoothly appressed scales, terminal joint rather thick at base. Mawillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well-developed, scaled throughout. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. forewings with costa deflexed, evenly rounded to ternus, apex not defined: newration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate. Hindwengs 1, costa straight, apex rounded; termen scarcely sinuate beneath apex, thence evenly rounded; cilia 4-3: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 truncate, Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae with rough hairs above.
Nearest to Acompsia Hb. (=Brachycrossata Hnm. ; *Recurvaria Meyr.), but differing in HW: 3-4 being connate, not stalked; also in the peculiar rounded apex of the forewings. The genus reminds one of the Trichotaphe Clms. group of the genus Dichomeris Hb., with which it agrees fairly well in the form of the palpi, but it is at once distinguished by having FW: 2-3 separate, not stalked. The terminal joint of the palpi is shorter than the median in vinitincta, but slightly longer in tridentella.
1. Cathegesis vinitincta, sp. n.
Antennae tawny fuscous, annulate with pale ochreous. Palpi tawny fuscous, the terminal joint shorter than the median, its upper half pale ochreous. Head shining, cinereous. Thorax tawny greyish fuscous. Forewings shining, tawny greyish fuscous, with a broad semicircular chocolate-brown dorsal patch reaching from near the base to near the middle, its upper third crossing the fold; an elongate chocolate- brown streak from the outer end of the cell nearly reaching the termen below the apex ; the apex itself is rounded, but the form of the tawny brownish cilia above it gives the depressed costa a strongly angulate appearance before it; a pale cinereous line runs around the base of the tawny greyish terminal cilia. Hap. al.16 mm. Hindwings wider than the forewings ; bronzy brown; cilia greyish brown. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs bronzy brownish, the femora and tibiae to the first pair of spurs whitish cinereous ; some indistinct pale spots on the tarsi.
Type 2 (65718, Cerro Zunil) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65719) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith)—Guatemata: Cerro Zunil,
4000-5000 ft. (G@. C. Champion). Two specimens. e@ 2
28 HETEROCERA.
2. Cathegesis tridentella, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 24.)
Antennae cinereous, annulate with brownish. Palpi with the median joint slightly tufted above at its apex, the terminal joint longer than the median, slightly recurved, divergent ; cinereous, banded with grey ish brown at the end of the median joint, on the middle of the terminal joint, and again narrowly before the apex. Head brownish cinereous; face scarcely paler. Thorax brownish grey. Forewings brownish cinereous, shaded with greyish brown along the costa, except at the base and on the apical fifth ; this darker shading is diffused downward as far as the middle of the fold, and in a broken and diluted form reaches the dorsum and extends outward to above the tornus, where it is terminated by a pale anteapical band sinuate inward below the costa and outward above the tornus, the somewhat pale apical space containing three dark fuscous tooth-like streaks; cilia pale cinereous, with a greyish brown shade running along their middle. Exp. al.13 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, trapezoidal, scarcely sinuate below the apex; brownish grey; cilia pale cinereous, with a darker shade running through them before their middle. Abdomen brownish grey, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs pale brownish cinereous,
Type 3 (65743) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
SYSTASIOTA, gen. n.
(cvoraowrns =a partisan.)
Type: Systasiota leucura Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 25.) uw 49 i)
J. H. Durrant, del. 8. Systasiota leucura Wism. ¢.
Antennae 2, simple ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi slender, recurved, smooth; the terminal and median joints about equal in length. Mawillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well-developed. Ovelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, widening somewhat outwardly, costa subsinuate, apex caudate, termen sinuate, tornus rounded: newration 11 veins; 7 and 8 coincident, to costa ; 2 and 3 stalked. Hindwings 1, apex obtuse, termen subsinuate: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 short-stalked ; 5 radial; 6 and 7 truncate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly hairy above.
Derived from Holophysis W1sm., which it much resembles in general structure and appearance ; it differs in the coincidence of FW: 7-8, and the caudate apex. Drepanoterma W\sm. differs in its longer antennae, and more developed palpi with shorter terminal joint.
SYSTASIOTA.—HOLOPHYSIS. 29
1. Systasiota leucura, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 25.)
Antennae mouse-grey. Palpi mouse-grey, paler on their inner sides; the median and terminal joints about equal in length, slender, recurved, naked. Head olive-grey, the face paler. Thorax olive-grey, with a dark brownish band across the front; silvery whitish beneath. Jorewings dark umber-brown, with a leaden grey costal patch at the base reaching nearly to one-third, widened and produced downward at its outer end, but scarcely touching the fold; joining it at the extreme base is a leaden grey band, running along the dorsum below the fold to beyond the middle, where it is joined by a transverse fascia starting narrowly on the costa, enclosing a dark brown spot on the cell and consisting above the middle of shining silvery blue-grey scales, a narrower subapical fascia of the same colour, much zigzagged in its course, precedes the termen ; the apex is slightly caudate, and is distinctly marked by a slender whitish ochreous line, along the base of the dark brown costal cilia, which is continued along the upper half of the sinuate termen ; terminal cilia dark brown, with a curved white patch immediately below the apex which is very apparent on the underside. Zwp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings dark bronzy brown; cilia slightly paler; underside with a broad silvery whitish costal patch beyond the middle. Abdomen shining leaden greyish ; silvery whitish beneath. Legs dark brown, with two broad white bands on the tibiae and three or four white tarsal annulations.
Type 3 (65736) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, 1V. (H. H. Smith). Unique. HOLOPHYSIS, gen. n.
(éd\os=entire 5 duos, a form.)
Type: Strobisia emblemella Clms.
J. H. Durrant, del.
9. Holophysis emblemellu Clms. 6.
Antennae 3, slightly serrate; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi slender, recurved, divergent, smooth ; terminal joint as long, or longer than median, acute. Maaillary Palpi rudimentary. Haustellum well- developed. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, widening somewhat outwardly; costa rather straight, apex depressed, obtuse, termen subsinuate: . neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2 and 3 stalked ; rest separate. Hindwings 1, apex obtuse, termen slightly sinuate: newration 8 veins; 3 and 4 short-stalked; 5 radial; 6 and 7 connate, or closely approximate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth ; hind tibiae slightly hairy above.
Derived from Anacampsis Crt., from which it differs in the shorter palpi, and in FW: 2-3 being stalked; it resembles Strodisia Clms., and Trichotaphe Clms., in
a
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general appearance, but differs from the former in having all the veins present in the forewings, and from both in having vein HW: 5 radial, instead of cubital.
Correlated with, and very similar to Perioristica Wlsm., which however differs in having FW: 2-3 separate. The Central American species resembles Perioristica chalcopera Wlsm. in the cilia of the forewings having a tendency to become falcate ; this is not so noticeable in emblemella Clms.
1. Holophysis anoma, sp. n.
Antennaz leaden grey. Palpi silvery grey ; very slender, recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, reaching high above the vertex. Head dull leaden grey; face shining silvery. Thorac dull leaden grey; silvery white beneath. Forewings dull leaden grey at the base, becoming more shining at a little distance from it, this colour is continued along the dorsum blending into a shining silvery grey fascia beyond the middle which is attenuated and recurved upward to the costa, thus enclosing a broad bronzy brown costal patch, its convex lower extremity touching the fold on which it is preceded by a small brown spot; in the silvery fascia is also a small elongate brown spot about the end of the cell; the apical portion of the wing is bronzy brown, with a shining silver-grey costal spot at the commencement of the cilia and a larger shining silver-grey patch arising from the tornus and terminating below and beyond the costal spot; cilia brownish cinereous, a dark line running through them near their base parallel with the rounded apex. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings greyish brown, the cilia shading to pale cinereous toward the apex. Abdomen bronzy brownish, silvery white beneath. Legs bronzy brownish, hind tibiae banded and tipped with white, the tarsi with four white annulations.
Type & (65739) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTI. (65740) US. Nat. Mus.]
Fab. Mexico: veRA cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith): tapasco: Teapa,. III. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens.
2. Holophysis stagmatophoria, sp.n.
Antennae slightly serrate towards the apex; bronzy brown. Palpi pale greyish, shaded with bronzy brown along their underside. Head bronzy brown above; face whitish. Thorax shining, bronzy brown. Forewings shining, bronzy brown, with brilliant silvery streaks becoming white towards the costa; the first of these is at one-fourth, running obliquely outwards from the costa to a little beyond the fold, this is almost entirely silvery white; the second is a little beyond the middle, forming an irregular outwardly- curved fascia reduplicated on the cell, white on the costa with a slight aeneous tinge beneath it; the third forms a slightly oblique spot at the commencement of the costal cilia, a fourth appearing as an elongate, slightly aeneous, silvery patch along the termen; cilia about the apex brown, with a slender line along their base and a wider one along their middle giving a somewhat caudate appearance, beneath the apex the cilia are greyish, partaking of the metallic gloss of the terminal patch. Exp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings bronzy brown, slightly paler than the forewings; cilia tipped with greyish. Abdomen shining bronzy fuscous, with a white patch beneath, forming two lateral bands at the commencement of the dark anal tuft. Legs white; hind tibiae with two broad bands of brownish fuscous, hind tarsi with one broad band and three narrower bands of the same; spurs white.
Type 3 (65733) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65734) US. Nat. Mus.]
’ Hab. Mexico: @uERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIIT. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
3. Holophysis quadrimaculata, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 26.)
Antennae greyish fuscous. Palpi whitish cinereous. Head and Thorax greyish fuscous. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, with four steel-grey costal streaks, all inclining a little outwards; the first, near the base, reaching over the fold; the second at one-fourth not reaching the fold; the third, median, reaching to the lower angle of the cell and scarcely separated from a diffused patch of the same colour before and beneath it; the fourth at three-fourths of the wing-length, shorter than the others, a line of steel-
HOLOPH YSIS,—PERIORISTICA, d1
grey scales preceding the termen; cilia greyish, becoming almost white at the apex, with a dark line running through them at their base. Zp. al. 8 mm. Hindwings and cilia greyish fuscous, the latter tipped with white at the apex. Abdomen greyish fuscous; white beneath. Legs greyish tuscous, with white patches on the tibiae, and white spots on the tarsal joints.
Type 3 (65716) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65717) US. Nat. Mus.]
fab. Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
4. Holophysis xanthostoma, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 27.)
Antennae dark brown, the terminal six joints white. Palpi and Haustellum yellow. Head brown; face steel-white. Zhorax bronzy brown. Forewings dark bronzy brown, shading into shining brassy metallic along the dorsum below the fold, and in a broad oblique terminal band; two shining pale aeneous costal spots, one near the base, the other a little before the middle, are followed by two minute white costal dots, one about the middle, the other beyond; cilia brownish. Zwp. al. 9 mm. Hindwings and cilia brown, paler than the forewings. Abdomen bronzy grey. Legs, anterior pair yellow at the base; posterior mouse-grey above, whitish aeneous beneath.
Type 5 (65735) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab.. MEXICO: GUERRERO: Omilteme, 8000 ft., VII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
Closely allied to guadrimaculata W1sm., but easily separable by its yellow palpi and front tibiae. PERIORISTICA, gen. n. (weptopiorexh = serving to determine.)
Type: Perioristica chalcopera, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 28.)
J. H. Durrant, del. Lone 10. Perioristica chalcopera Wism. 6.
Antennae 3, simple, smooth ; basal joint without pecten. Labial palpi ascending, recurved, tapering, acute, smooth; terminal joint scarcely half as long as the median, which is slightly thickened. Mavillary Palpi short, dependent. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings with straightened costa, obtuse, not depressed, apex falsely uncate by dependent produced point in cilia; termen slightly oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2-3 approximate. Hindwings broader than forewings, somewhat trapezoidal, widening outward, apex slightly rounded, termen oblique, slightly sinuate, tornus well-defined, but blunted: neuration 8 veins ;
32 HETEROCERA.
6 and 7 closely approximate ; 3 and 4 connate; 5 radial, parallel, midway between 4 and 6. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly hairy above.
Closely allied to Anacampsis Crt., from which it appears to be derived, but differing in the caudate cilia of the forewings, and in the short terminal joint of the palpi.
1. Perioristica chalcopera, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 28.)
Antennae bronzy brownish grey. Palpi white at the base and on the inner sides, thence stained witb steely grey. Head and Thorax brownish grey, with a slight cupreous tinge; face white. Forewings bronzy brown, overlaid on the basal half with a greenish grey iridescent sheen, the outer edge of which is obliquely terminated a little before the middle of the costa, and throws out a short white streak along the cell; above this is a slender, oblique, detached white streaklet, and an outwardly oblique white costal streak, more or less connected by scattered whitish scales at its apex with the apex of the median streak, and again to the apex of a similar streak a little above the dorsum ; at four-fifths is a second, short, straight white costal streak, loosely connected by scattered scales, at its apex, with a striated patch above the tornus, in which they form the upper of a series of three short longitudinal white streaks, bounded before and behind by a whitish line; on the costa at the apex are two converging wedge-shaped white streaks, divided by a dark brown line, which is continued along the termen to the tornus ; the outer of these is wider than the inner, and forms the base of the caudate apical extension of the cilia which are bronzy brown beyond it, those on the termen below being bright rosy, iridescent, brassy metallic. Hvp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings and cilia brown, with iridescent, bluish, steely grey reflections. Abdomen cupreous. Legs dark bronzy brown, with white bands, those on the hind tibiae oblique.
Type 3 (65751) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Ooll.). [PT. (65752) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens. Very similar to Anacampsis perinaeta Wl1sm., which also occurs at Amula, in August:
the caudate cilia and the much shorter terminal joint of the palpi will at once separate chalcopera.
DIASTALTICA, gen. n. (Siacradruy=serving to distinguish.) Type: Diastaltica separabilis Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 29.) 4A $0 9 4
J. H. Durrant, del.
ll. Diastaltica separabihes Wism. ¢.
DIASTALTICA.—ANACAMPSIS, 33
Antennae 2, slightly serrate towards apex; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, smooth, recurved ; terminal and median joints about equal in length. Maaillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelht present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow at the base, somewhat widened outwardly, costa slightly arched near the base, apex scarcely depressed, pointed, termen sinuate, very oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings 1, costa straight, apex obtusely pointed, termen slightly sinuate, dorsum parallel with costa: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 connate. Abdomen smooth. Legs smooth; hind tibiae slightly haired above.
This genus is separable from Acompsia Hb. (=Brachycrossata Hnmn.) by the position of vein F'W: 2, as also by its general structure and appearance.
1. Diastaltica separabilis, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 29.)
Antennae pale cinereous, annulate with dark brown. Palpi pale cinereous, Head and Thorax brownish grey ; face pale cinereous. Forewings dark bronzy brown, a pale aeneous band, commencing at the base of the costa, is dilated downward to the dorsum, and continued outward along it to the middle, where it is turned upward to the fold, joining the inner branch of a shining steel-grey furcate fascia, which, descending from the costa, scarcely beyond the middle, encloses an elongate, transverse, brown spot, near its outer side on the cell; this is preceded, halfway to the base, by an outwardly oblique, shining, steel-grey, metallic, cuneiform costal blotch; a sinuate band of the same colour commences with the costal cilia, suddenly angulated outward below them, and diffused along the lower half of the termen ; between the outer and the central fascia, as also on the dorsum between the forks of the latter, the dark ground-colour is thickly sprinkled with golden-brown scales; terminal cilia whitish cinereous, with a pure white patch below the apex, a dark brown line along their base ; costal and tornal cilia brown. Exp. al.18 mm. Hindwings dull brown ; cilia with a slight greyish tinge, especially toward the apex. Abdomen dark bronzy brownish grey, with a white ring around the base of the genital segment. Legs dark brown, with two broad white bands around the tibiae, and four smaller ones around the tarsi; spurs white.
Type 5 (65725) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Guatemata: Volcan de Agua, 8500-10,500 ft., 13. I. 1881 (G@. C. Champion).
Unique.
ANACAMPSIS Crt.
= Tacuyprizza Hnmn.
Type: [Ph. Tinea] populella Cl. (Crt. 1827).
Anacampsis Crt. Br. Ent. 4 expl. Pl. 189 (1827) ; Stph. Ill. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 204-17 no. 320 sp. 1- 47 (1834), 400 (1835) ; Dp. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 7 189-40 no. 17 (1838) : HN. Lp. Fr. 11 18, 266-80 no. 17 (1838) ; Wstwd. Syn. Gn. Br. Ins. 110 (1840); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 67 Pf. 12° 86-8 (1853), 189-208 sp. 506-64 (1854). Tcuyprizza Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 321-3 no. 438 sp. 485-71 (1870), Tbl. 5, 45 no. 438 (1876); Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 13 361-3 no. 20-1 Pf. 5° 121-2 (1877); Suln. Vind. Nederl. Micr. 428, 611-13 no. 42 sp. 1-2 Pf. 8+ 262, 265 (1882) ; Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 604 no. 13 sp. 1-2 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 151 no. 307 sp. 2776-83 (1901). Anacampsis Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. 31 41, 43 (1895): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 79-82 no. 17 sp. 58-64 (1897); Drnt. Ent. Mo. Mag. 33 221 (1897); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 509-11 no. 5701-18 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 230-1 Pf. 1° 6 (1900): 25 773, 844-51, 985 Pf. 31°28 (1903): 27 760-1 (1904): Can. Ent. 38 121 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 88 (1909).
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., Apri 1910. tf
34 | ; HETEROCERA.
1. Anacampsis acosmeta, sp. n.
Antennae stone-grey. Falpi stone-grey, with a patch of tawny fuscous at the base externally, the terminal joint also tipped with tawny fuscous. Head and Thorax pale stone-grey. Forewongs pale stone-grey, with minute sprinkling of tawny fuscous, especially across the apical fourth of the wing, at the commence- ment of which is a minute ochreous costal spot and another opposite to it on the dorsum, the latter encircled above by tawny fuscous scales; along the termen are two or three minute groups of black scales preceding the pale stone-grey cilia. Hwp.al. 11mm. Hindwings pale stone-grey, somewhat transparent and subiridescent, especially about the flexus ; cilia very pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen (missing). Legs very pale brownish cinereous, suffused with greyish externally.
Type & (85714) Mus. Wism. [PZ (35715) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. NW. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. K. Morrison). Two specimens.
A small plain-coloured species, most nearly allied to 5708 crescentifasciella Chmb., _ but distinguishable by the antetornal dark-margined ochreous dot—evidently the lower extremity of an obsolete transverse fascia.
9. Anacampsis balia,sp.n. .
_ Antennae bright ochreous. Palpi dull pale ochreous ; terminal joint as long as the median, both smooth. Head shining leaden bluish, face paler ; ochreous around the eyes. Z'horax leaden brownish. Forewings leaden brownish, thickly and profusely sprinkled with pale cinereous scales, leaving avery ill-defined and - scarcely perceptible darker medio-costal spot, and a tornal shade diffused outward and upward, and a small spot above the middle of the termen; cilia brownish fuscous. Evp.al.17 mm. Hindwings pale chocolate-brown ; cilia greyish cinereous. Abdomen brownish, anal tuft and underside pale. Legs dark brownish grey, hind tibiae and tarsi each with two pale bands.
Type 3 (65744) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Ooll.). [PZ. (65745) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft., X. (H. H. Smith): MORELOS : Cuernavaca, VI. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
The ochreous antennae and palpi render this species somewhat distinct.
3. Anacampsis epibola, sp. n.
Antennae ashy grey. Palpi bone-whitish ; terminal joint longer than median, sprinkled beneath with ashy grey, the median joint also shaded with ashy grey at its base externally. Head and Thoraw ashy grey ; face paler. Forewings ashy grey, with sparsely scattered greyish fuscous speckling, the usual spots are not more noticeable than other specks; near the base of the dorsum is an outwardly oblique greyish fuscous shade, rising to a little above the fold; a slight clouding of the same colour appears at the com- mencement of the costal and dorsal cilia respectively, the anteterminal portion of the wing beyond it being slightly paler than the general hue ; cilia brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 18mm. Hindwings greyish brown ; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown, with a shining, pale cinereous patch at the base. Legs greyish brown, with pale cinereous tarsal annulations.
Type 2 (65720, Atoyac) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (5837 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, LV. (H. H. Smith )—PANaMa : CANAL ZONE: Taber- nilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Three specimens.
Most nearly allied to 5702 rhotfructella Clms., but distinct. The Tabernilla specimen shows that when comparatively fresh the ground-colour is slightly darker than in those from which the description was taken.
ANACAMPSIS. 3D
4, Anacampsis conistica, sp. n.
Antennae brownish cinereous, dusted with black above. Palpi dull white, the median joint distinctly dark brown from its base on the outer side to beyond half its length, the dark brown abruptly cut off; the terminal joint brown on its outer side and around its extreme apex. Head greyish brown, face paler. Thorax slightly darker than the head. Forewings brownish cinereous, much suffused with fuscous, becoming tawny towards the apex and termen, a small black spot at the extreme base of the costa; four very indistinct fuscous spots, two on the fold, and two on the cell, of which the first discal is beyond the second plical; a dull brownish ochreous spot, at the com- mencement of the -costal cilia, connected with an even more obscure opposite dorsal spot by a scarcely distinguishable line of pale scales, outwardly bowed among the fuscous suffusion; a few blackish scale- spots around the apex and termen, at the base of the greyish fuscous cilia which are minutely sprinkled along their middle with whitish cinereous, and faintly tipped with brownish ochreous; the apex is not greatly depressed, but somewhat obtuse. xp. al. 14-15 mm. Hindwings scarcely broader than the forewings, trapezoidal, not indented; greyish brown; cilia tawny brownish grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs cinereous, suffused on their outer sides with tawny fuscous,
Type & (35711, Sonora) Mus. Wism. [PPT. (35712-3) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (H. XK. Morrison): Durango: Presidio (Forrer). Three specimens. |
This species is very close to 5702 rhoifructella Clms., from some varieties of which it may possibly be undistinguishable by the colour or markings of the wings, but so far as I am at present aware the palpi of rhoifructella are smoother, less densely clothed, and suffused at least to the apex of the median joint with the darker shading, which is never abruptly cut off leaving the apex cleanly whitish, as in the Mexican species here described.
5. Anacampsis quinquepunctella Wlsm. (Tab. I. fig. 35.) Anacampsis quinquepunctella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 80-1 no. 61 (1897) °. Type 3 (65179) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.). [PT. (65181) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). West Indies—Grenada: Balthazar, windward side, 5-15 IV. (H. H. Smith) *.
A single specimen of this species (65710) was received from Teapa.
6. Anacampsis ursula, sp. n.
Antennae brownish grey. Palpi cinereous, the short median joint somewhat widened, shaded with greyish fuscous externally nearly to its apex, terminal joint very long, slender, recurved. Head mouse-grey ; face shining cinereous. Thoraw mouse-grey, with greenish and violet iridescence. Forewings with the costa straight, the apex depressed and somewhat angular; mouse-grey, sprinkled with greyish fuscous scales, a minute fuscous spot at the extreme base of the costa; from the commencement of the costal cilia an indistinct narrow pale cinereous and somewhat sinuate band, curving outward to below the middle, reverts to the dorsum before the tornus, beyond it the apical and terminal space is cupreous, with a slight iridescent lustre; cilia dull brownish cinereous, a few fuscous scales at their base around the apex. wp. al. 18 mm. Hindwings dark brown, somewhat thinly scaled toward base; cilia brownish cinereous. Abdomen flattened ; greyish brown. Legs cinereous, much shaded with greyish brown.
Type 3 (65746) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [Type 2 (65772) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: mMoRELos: Cuernavaca, VI. (1. H. Smith). Two specimens.
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Very similar to 5702 rhoifructella Clms., but at once separable by the widened clothing of the median joint-of the palpi. |
7. Anacampsis rhabdodes, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 30.)
Antennae pale whitish ochreous, minutely annulate with blackish. Palpi slender, terminal joint longer than the median which is clothed above toward its base ; whitish cinereous, the basal joint blackish externally to within one-third of the apex. Head and Thorax fawn-ochreous. Forewings pale olivaceous ochreous, transversely and narrowly striate with lines of dark fuscous scales beyond the base to the end of the cell, a minute blackish dot at the extreme base of the costa; a triangular dark fuscous costal shade-spot, before the costal cilia, is followed by a pale cinereous sinuate line, crossing the wing to the tornus; a few fuscous dots surround the apex and termen at the base of the pale brownish ochreous cilia. Earp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings a little broader than the forewings, trapezoidal; on the underside, below the costa near the base, is a slight tuft of long brownish scales ; greyish brown; cilia pale brownish cinereous. . Abdomen greyish brown. Legs brownish fuscous externally, the inner sides of the hind tibiae pale cinereous, with a faint indication of pale rings around the tarsal joints.
Type & (65705) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.).
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
g. Anacampsis molybdina, sp. n.
Antennae pale brownish cinereous, shaded with greyish above. Palpi shining, pale brownish cinereous, with a fuscous patch at the base; terminal joint longer than the median, both smooth. Head and face shining, pale slaty grey. Thorax shining, purplish grey. Forewings shining, purplish grey, with an inwardly diffused transverse fascia on the outer third, angulated outward about its middle und bounded along its outer edge by an indistinct narrow pale line, beyond which, after a slight purplish shade, the remainder of the wing to the apex is slaty grey, rather paler than the basal part; around the termen and around the depressed obtusely angulated apex runs a blackish line at the base of the pale slaty grey cilia.
| Exp.al.14 mm. Hindwings brown; cilia pale brownish cinereous. Abdomen greyish brown; anal tuft
whitish cinereous, Legs greyish cinereous. Type g (65730) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65731) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VILL. (I. H. Smith). Three specimens.
Closely allied to fragariella Busck, and of about the same size, but with slightly narrower forewings; it is of a more slaty colour and the fascia as well as the ante- terminal line are darker and more clearly defined.
9, Anacampsis campalea, sp. n.
Antennae stone-grey ; slightly serrate towards the apex. Palpi dull stone-whitish. Head and Thorax stone- grey. Forewings stone-grey, with an upright, slightly oblique, dark chocolate dorsal patch near the base, preceded by two small spots of the same at the base, one costal, the other median; on the cell is a slight brownish spot at about half the wing-length, followed by a minute reduplicated spot at the end of the cell; a dark chocolate-brown patch at the apex is preceded by an oblique stone-white costal streak, traceable to the dorsum, but outwardly angulated on the middle where it sends out two slender branch- lines towards the termen, ending in small brown spots; cilia stone-grey. Hxp.al.lomm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen dark brownish grey. Legs dark stone-grey, with pale whitish ochreous tarsal and tibial annulations.
Type & (65747) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PT. (65748) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Tierra Colorada, 2000 ft, X. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens.
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Very similar to episema Wlsm., but the palpi are uniformly dull stone-whitish, the median joint not being transversely striate with black as in that species.
10. Anacampsis episema, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 34.)
Antennae brownish fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Palpi silvery white at the base, with minute transverse black strigulae around the upper half of the smoothly clothed median joint; terminal joint longer than the median, whitish, peppered on its outer side with minute black scales. Head and face coarsely clothed with wide subspatulate scales ; brownish cinereous above, becoming silvery white on the face, with opalescent reflections. Thorax brownish cinereous, with a pair of dark umber-brown spots anteriorly and smaller ones on the tegulae. Forewings with the costa straight, apex depressed, obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; brownish cinereous, with darker umber-brown sprinkling and some ill-defined spots of the same, two on the cell and one in the fold, also two small ones below the costa on the basal fifth ; arising from the flexus, and narrowly connected with the base along the margin, is a dark umber- brown streak running somewhat obliquely outward, its upper extremity crossing the fold; a strong shade of the same colour along the costa, beyond the middle, is abruptly terminated by a dull ivory-white streak descending from the costa before the apical cilia, angulated inward above, and outward about the middle of the wing-length, and descending to the tornus ; the terminal and apical space beyond it also dull ivory- white, with some greyish fuscous suffusion; a blackish triangular spot above the apex and two narrow transverse black lines below it preceding the pale whitish cinereous cilia, through which runs‘a dark dividing shade-line. Hwp. al. 15-16 mm. Hindwings (1+) dark brownish fuscous ; cilia tawny grey. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs whitish cinereous, broadly banded externally with brownish fuscous to the ends of the tarsi.
Type & (65737, Atoyac) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) [{PT'T. (68760-1) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—MeExico: veRA cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft., VI.1899 (H. H. Smith)—Bnrazit, 8.: PARANA: Castro, 1898 (£. D. Jones). Seven specimens. .
Only single specimens from Atoyac and Castro ; all agree in the peculiarly marked zebrate palpi which at once separate this species from campalea Wlsm.: the Castro specimen (¢ 67305) differs slightly in the flexal streak being broken into spots, the discal spots are perhaps also slightly more distinct.
11. Anacampsis zebrina, sp. n.
Antennae slightly biserrate; delicately annulate with fuscous and whitish ochreous. Palpi slender, recurved, smooth, the median joint fuscous, beautifully striate with delicate whitish lines transversely ; the terminal joint whitish ochreous, with a slender dark line beneath. Head stone-grey ; face whitish. Thorax fuscous, with whitish ochreous lines along the margins of the tegulae. Forewings fuscous nearly to the middle, whitish ochreous blending into fawn-brown beyond; the basal portion is largely reticulated with whitish ochreous lines forming three larger and some smaller dark patches; on the outer third of the wing is a fuscous costal patch followed by an inwardly oblique whitish line, traceable to the dorsum, in an angulated series of whitish scales; an elongate whitish patch at the end of the cell between this and the apex; above the patch is an elongate fuscous streak, and below it two fuscous lines following the nervules ; around the apex and termen a whitish ochreous line is followed throughout its course by a dark fuscous line at the base of the fawn-brown cilia. Hyvp.al.138 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, the tarsi of the first two pairs, and the tibiae and tarsi of the third pair, banded externally with fuscous, the anterior bands oblique.
Type 3 (65699) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65700) US. Nat. Mus. ] Hab. Mexico: rasasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
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12, Anacampsis scutella Z. Gelechia (Ceratophora 2) scutella Z. Hor. Soc, Ent. Ross. 18 863-5 no. 22 Pf. 5:123 (1877) ’.
Type 2 (Sommer Coll.) Mus. Stgr. Hab. [Central America ?]
Zeller described this species from a single 9 “ohne Angabe des Vaterlandes, das aber wohl auch das warmere Amerika ist, aus der Sommerschen Sammlung im Museum Staudinger”, This species probably came from some Central American locality, and appears to be closely allied to zebrina Wlsm., with which it agrees in the form of the palpi, as also with episema Wlsm. Similar zebrate palpi occur in some of Walker’s South American species, and are not confined to the genus Anacampsis (cf. Apopira falcatella Wkr. etc.).
13. Anacampsis titanota, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 32.)
Antennae cinereous, suffused and banded with blackish above. Palpi ivory-white, slightly smeared with blackish at the end of the median joint, and along the outer surface of the terminal to the apex ; both joints slender and smooth, terminal longer than median. Mawillaries and Haustellum ivory-white. Head and Thorax olivaceous grey; face and pectus ivory-white. Horewings ivory-white, the pale ground-colour fully exposed only along the costa from the base to two-thirds, and in a broad median band on which black shading and sprinkling of scales more or less encroaches from the base, and brownish fuscous shading, which covers the apical fourth, tends to encroach on its outer side; a small black dot at the extreme base of the costa is followed by two larger ones in the whitish space below the costa; resting on the upper edge of the black suffusion an indistinct ocelloid spot lies at the end of the cell, and beyond it a slender whitish line passes somewhat obliquely through the brownish terminal suffusion from costa to turnus; two or three small whitish length-streaks, combined with some black scales, running outward beyond it toward termen and apex; there is a slender blackish line along the base of the tawny brown cilia. Zap. al.13 mm. Hindwings dark tawny brown; cilia smoky fuscous, tipped with pale cinereous. Abdomen tawny brown. Legs ivory-white, broadly banded with tawny black above.
Type 3 (65750) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll).
Hab. Guatemata: vera paz: Panima, X. 1879 (G. C. Champion). Unique.
14, Anacampsis succincta, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 1.)
Antennae pale brownish. Palpi smooth, recurved, the terminal joint as long as the median; white, shaded with brownish towards their apex. Head and Thorax pale brownish grey; face white. Forewings elongate, narrow, the costa straight, apex acuminate, slightly depressed, termen very oblique; pale brownish grey, indistinctly spotted with brownish fuscous, of which there is a slender streak along the base of the costa, an elongate spot on the middle of the cell, another in the fold preceding it, and one at the base of the dorsum ; on the outer third of the wing a transverse brownish fuscous shade, especially €onspicuous on the costa, follows the outline of a narrow whitish cinereous fascia, sharply angulated outward at its middle; beyond this the terminal area is pale cinereous, outlined with darker shading, most conspicuous on the costa before, and on the termen below the apex; cilia pale cinereous. Exp. al. 85 mm. Hindwings (1+) trapezoidal, termen subsinuate; brownish grey, cilia concolorous. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs (hind legs broken).
Type 3 (65709, Leapa) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). (PIT. (76304, 76373) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. AMERICA, C-I. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (7. H. Smith). West Indies—Jamaica: st. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 24.XII - 2.1. 1905
(Wism.): st. ANN: Moneague, 7-10. I. 1905 (Wism.); Runaway Bay, 3.III —21.IV. 1905 (Wism.). Eight specimens.
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15. Anacampsis elephas, sp. n.
Antennae brownish cinereous. Palpi strongly recurved, smooth, terminal joint longer than median ; greyish white, the basal third of the median joint fuscous externally. Head and Thora leaden grey; face paler. Forewings leaden grey, with a black dot at the extreme base of the costa; a brownish fuscous shade-band crossing the wing at two-thirds, its inner edge somewhat produced along the costa, its outer margin marked by an angular whitish line, bent inward below the costa, outward to the middle of the wing, and thence obliquely inward to the dorsum where it terminates in a small buff-brown spot, a few brownish scales are scattered along its outer edge; around the apex and termen is a series of somewhat diffused brownish fuscous spots; cilia leaden grey, slightly mottled. Erp. al. 15 mm. Hindwings (1+) trapezoidal; pale greyish brown; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen greyish brown, a small buff- brown spot above before the anal tuft. Legs brownish grey, the hind tarsi shaded externally with
greyish fuscous. Type & (65727, Amula) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT. (65726 2) US, Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Muxico: Guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., IX. (A. H. Smith)—GuaTEMALa: Basa VERA Paz: San Gerénimo (G. C. Champion). Two specimens.
16. Anacampsis glaphyra, sp.n. (Tab. I. fig. 31.)
Antennae pale cinereous, delicately annulate with fuscous. Palpi smooth, recurved, pale cinereous, the terminal joint longer than the median, reaching above the vertex, a slight fuscous shade along its under-side. Head and Thoraa olivaceous leaden grey ; face slightly paler. Forewings olivaceous leaden grey, with a fuscous dot close to the base of the cell, a slightly oblique dorsal streak at about one-sixth, extending across the fold, brownish fuscous, margined on either side with rich ferruginous scales; an obscure dot in the fold beyond its middle is followed by a discal dot above it, and another at the end of the cell; a rich ferruginous band crosses the wing at the commencement of the cilia, its upper and lower extremities shaded obliquely inward with dark brown; a series of small fuscous spots around the termen and apex at the base of the glaucous cilia, which are tipped with pale cinereous. Hip. al. 12 mm. Hindwings broader than the forewings, trapezoidal ; dark brown; cilia pale cinereous. Abdomen dark brown. Legs pale cinereous, the tarsi with four fuscous bands of diminishing width.
Type & (65738) Mus. Wlsm, (Godm-Salv. Coll.). Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
This species is closely allied to swsceptella Wkr. (Cat. Lp. BM. 29 615 no. 275, Fga), but differs in the dark marginal row of spots before the pale termen, and in
the broader and paler hindwings.
17. Anacampsis siderophaea, sp. n.
Antennae cinereous, faintly annulate with brownish. Palpi cinereous. Head and Thoraw greyish cinereous. Forewings greyish cinereous, profusely sprinkled throughout with whitish cinereous scales, leaving an ill-defined triangular umber-brown costal spot beyond the middle, with a shade of the same colour on the outer portion of the fold, and a straight umber-brown terminal band including the apex, preceded on the costa by an obscure pale ochreous spot ; cilia cinereous, shaded with umber-brown towards their base. Exp. al. 11-15 mm. Hindwings dark umber-brown ; cilia paler. Abdomen dark umber-brown. Legs umber-brown, the hind tibiae whitish cinereous on their inner sides, with two whitish cinereous bands externally above the pale spurs; hind tarsi with four whitish annulations.
Type (3 65722; 2 65723, Atoyac) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.). (PL. (65701) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: vera cruz: Atoyac, IV. (H. H. Smith): tapasco: Teapa, Ill. (H. H. Smith). Four specimens.
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18. Anacampsis ambusta, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 33.)
Antennae greyish brown. Palpi white, the terminal joint with a greyish tinge. Head greyish brown ; face whitish. Thorax brown, slightly streaked with hoary scales. Forewings dark brown, the basal portion much mottled with hoary white, forming a patch on the costa reaching to one-fourth ; a white spot Jies at the end of the cell and the dark brown ground-colour is somewhat abruptly terminated in a straight line across the wing from the commencement of the costal cilia, the apical portion being thence equally sprinkled with dark brown and hoary white, the latter forming a streak in the costal cilia 3 apical and terminal cilia at their base reddish brown, dark brown along their middle, and brownish cinereous at — their outer ends. Ezp.al.10 mm. Hindwings dark greyish brown, cilia somewhat paler. Abdomen shining bronzy brown. Legs, the median pair with strong spreading white tufts at the ends of the tibiae, a black patch at the base of the tuft externally, the tarsi whitish beneath, coppery brow above; hind legs greyish externally, whitish on their inner sides, the tarsi and hinder ends of the tibia spotted with white. . .
Type 3 (65706, Teapa) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PTT. (68755-6) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. Z. Smith). South America—CotomBia: Minca, 2000 ft, VI. 1899 (HZ. H. Smith). Eight specimens.
This species was described from a single specimen from Mexico; the subsequent reception of a small series from Colombia extends the distribution. |
19. Anacampsis metadupa, sp. n.
Antennae cinereous. Palpi very slender, rising high above the vertex, terminal joint longer than median ; pale cinereous. Head and Thorax dull brownish cinereous. orewings with olivaceous greenish and bronzy brownish reflections; a broad piumbeous band near the base, running obliquely outward from dorsum to costa, is narrowly reduplicated beyond ; from the middle of the dorsum arises a similar plumbeous band, which, attaining the costa obliquely before the cilia, is margined on its inner side by a somewhat triangular brownish fuscous costal spot, and on its outer side by a dorsal shade of the same colour; a triangular patch enclosing the apex and termen, with a dark line running through the middle of the cinereous terminal cilia, is also dark brownish fuscous, and is margined on its inner side by a pale cinereous line. Exp. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings dark chocolate-brown ; cilia pale cinereous, with a dark line running through them near their base, and a dark fuscous fan-like flexal tuft of scales. Abdomen brownish fuscous, mixed with cinereous, a plumbeous band across the middle. Legs dark fuscous, with three conspicuous whitish bands around the tibiae, and two on the tarsi.
Type & (65702) Mus, Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.). [PT'. (65704) US, Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens.
20. Anacampsis perinaeta, sp. n.
Antennae dark stone-grey. Palpi with a slight brush on the median joint above; white. Head and Thorac dark stone-grey; face white. orewings stone-grey to half their length, thence dark bronzy brown ; on the basal half, in certain lights, a slight greenish iridescence is visible; on the outer half are several snow-white streaks, one forming an oblique costal spot beyond the middle, a second small straight triangular spot before the commencement of the costal cilia, and a third above the tornus, divided by a dark line into two longitudinal streaks ; in addition to these is an oblique apical streak, reduplicated in the apical cilia, a small length-streak below the outer end of the fold, and a shorter diverging streaklet above it; cilia shining, pale aeneous, with a dark line along their base. Exp.al.9mm. Hindwings umber-brown; cilia slightly paler. Abdomen bronzy brownish. Legs dark brownish, with white annulations on the tarsal joints and on the extremities of the tibiae.
Type 3 (65728) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coil.). [PTZ (65729) US. Nat. Mus.)
ANACAMPSIS. 4]
- Hab. Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (2. H. Smith). Two specimens.
Closely allied to 5713 levipedel/a Clms., but differing in the presence of a white apical spot, reduplicated in the cilia.
21, Anacampsis suffectella Wkr. (Tab. II. figs. 2, 3.) Gelechia suffectella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 610-11 sp. 266 (1864) *. Antennae dull ochreous, faintly annulate with fuscous, the apex white. Pulpi whitish, metallic. Head steel-blue, face paler. TZ'horaw steel-grey, with a shining bluish tinge. Forewings bright orange, with a short basal patch, a costal triangle, before the middle, reaching to the fold, and a large apical patch— all dark tawny fuscous, margined, except on the costa, by broken smaller patches of bright, shining steel-blue ; a conspicuous patch of the same shining steel-blue, edged with dark fuscous, lies in the centre of the triangular orange area, between the dark costal and apical patches; cilia pale greyish ; underside with a slender whitish line along the costa. wp. al. 9-10 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous; cilia scarcely paler. Abdomen brownish fuscous; whitish beneath. Legs dark fuscous, the spurs and joints silvery white, the hind tarsi also with silvery annulations. ,
Type 3 (1858: 6, Ega) Mus. Br. [7Zt. (65714-5), (5838 Wlsm. Det.) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: Tapasco: Teapa, III. (HM. H. Smith)—PaNAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). South America— CoLOMBIA: MAGDALENA: Minca, 2000 ft., VI. 1899 (A. Hf. Smith)—Braziu': amMazons?: Ega (H. W. Bates): ceara: VIII. 1884 (J. H. Leech): msprrtro santo: (1871, Higgins) —Prru: cvuzco: Cuzco Mts. (Garlepp, Stgr. 1895).
The specimen figured Tab. II. fig. 2 was originally regarded as distinct from suffectella Wkr., chiefly from the absence of any dark dusting on the orange ground- colour, such as exists to a limited extent on Walker’s type, and more conspicuously on another of my own (3 65711) which had been compared with it. A fair series of suffectella has now been put together, and I am unable to regard the black dusting (which, by the way, does not appear to have caught the eye of the artist) as more than a varietal difference, although in some specimens it is quite conspicuous.
22. Anacampsis trochilea, sp. n.
Antennae greyish brown. Palpi whitish at the base, becoming greyish brown along the terminal joint. Head brilliant metallic shining green; face white. Yhoraw dark brownish fuscous, with a bright green metallic spot posteriorly, the tegulae bright shining metallic green; shining white beneath. Forewings dark brownish fuscous, with a broad outwardly curved blue-green metallic band near the base, a slightly oblique stone-grey fascia across the middle, somewhat produced inwards on the dorsum, a triangular costal spot of the same colour between this and the metallic band, the termen, apex and cilia also stone-grey. Hap. al.12 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous, with a dark fuscous spot at the flexus; cilia stone-grey. Abdomen brilliant metallic shining green, with two brownish fuscous transverse bands, the second immediately before the stone-grey anal tuft; shining white beneath. Legs white, with two brownish fuscous spots on the hind tibiae.
Type 3 (65707) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM.* [P7'. (65708) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: tapasco: Teapa, IIT. (4. H. Smith). Two specimens. * [The Walsingham Collections were transferred to the British Museum 1st April, 1910.—Jno. Harrier
Durrant. |
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Smaller than perlatella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 612 sp. 269 (1864) Ega; n. syn. = smaragdulella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 614 sp. 273 (1864) Santarem], and in the material before me the stone-grey costal spot of trochilea is of moderate size and inconspicuous, while in perlatella it is produced to the dorsum as a fascia; moreover, the apical and terminal cilia of the forewings, as well as the cilia of the hindwings, are decidedly paler, and the apex of the forewing itself partakes in some degree of the grey tinge of the cilia which is certainly not the case in perlatella. A perhaps even more reliable difference is to be found in the form of the dark brown colouring which precedes the pale median band—in perlatella this encroaches outward towards the costa, throwing an acute point along the costa to two-thirds, whereas in trochilea this is much more abruptly terminated on the costa at about the middle.
The type of secundella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 615 sp. 274 (1864) Ega] which has almost entirely lost (in its present condition) the metallic colouring, described in somewhat similar terms to that of perlatetia (=smaragdulella), approaches perhaps more nearly to the Mexican trochilea Wlsm. than the other two types, in that the apex and cilia are slightly grey, and the oblique dark band rather more abruptly terminated on the costa; but in secundella this band does not recede towards the base along the dorsum as in érochilea, while like perlatella it is a rather larger and stouter species, and the hind tarsi of secundella are white. Were it in good condition it would, I think, be more easy to separate it.
23. Anacampsis speciosella Wkr. Gelechia speciosella Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 618 sp. 271 (1864) *.
Antennae dark brown, white at the apex. Palpi shining aeneous. Head and Thorax iridescent peacock- blue; face aeneous. Forewings rich dark brown, with a metallic bluish spot at the extreme base of the costa, and five snow-white spots—one costal, at two-thirds of the wing-length ; one dorsal, at three- fourths; one on the disc, before the middle; one at the lower angle of the cell; and one below the fold, nearer to the base; cilia dark brownish fuscous, snow-white on the middle of the termen. Exp. al. 12-13 mm. Hindwings and cilia dark brownish fuscous. Abdomen shining, iridescent, dark greyish green. Legs dark brown, banded on the tibiae and tarsi with snow-white ; spurs snow-white.
Type 2 (1857: 20) Mus. Br.; Ct. ¢ (65754) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [Hit. (65756-7) US. Nat. Mus. |
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—GUATEMALA: VERA PAZ: Cubilguitz
(G. C. Champion)—Panama: cumriqui: Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. (G. @. Champion).
South America—BraziL: aMAzons: Ega (Hl. W. Bates)’. Closely allied to stelliferella Wkr. [Cat. Lp. BM. 29 613 sp. 270 (1864)], with
which it agrees in the number of white spots in the forewings. These amount to five in both species, although Walker only recognised four in the type of stelliferelia, where he evidently overlooked the linear one in the fold which precedes the first costal: speciosella differs however consistently in the presence of a conspicuous white spot in the apical cilia of the forewings which is not found in stelliferella.
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24, Anacampsis (??) veteranella Z. Gelechia (Tachyptilia) desectella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 138 361-2 sp. 21 Pf. 5-121 (1877) *.
Hab. {Central America ?|
If the figure is in any way reliable this species cannot be an Anacampsis Crt. (=Tachyptilia Hnmn.), but would appear to belong to the narrow-winged Gele- chiadiae. We are unacquainted with the species which is represented in Staudinger’s collection by nine specimens from the “Sommer’schen Sammlung ohne Angabe des Vaterlandes, das aber doch wohl das warmere Amerika” *. |
EVIPPE Chmb. Type 1: Evippe prunifoliella Chmb. (Chmb. 1873).
Eviere Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 185-6 (1873); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500 sp. 5593-4 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 805-6 Pf. 29°13 (1903) : 30 725 tf. 725-3 (1906).
Type 2: Gelechia (Teleia?) leuconota Z. (=plutella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1875).
§Pxartvsa Chmb. Can. Ent.'7 105-7 (1875): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 160 (1878); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 805-6 (1903).
1. Evippe leuconota Z. =plutella Chmb."~"’.
Gelechia (Teleia ?) leuconota Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 28: 1873 Abh. 268-9 Pf. 3-21 (1873)’. Phaetusa plutella Chmb. Cat. Ent. 7 105-7 (1875)”. Gelechia leuconota Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878)*. Phaetusa plutella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 160 (1878) *: Can. Ent. 10 53-4 (1878)°; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 177 (1882)°; Mrtf. Can. Ent. 15 94 (1883)". Gelechia leuconota Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884)*; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 108 sp. 5401 (1891)°. Phaetusa plutella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 103 sp. 5512 (1891).°. Evippe leuconota Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500 sp. 5594 (1902)"': Pr. US.
Nat. Mus. 25 806 Pf. 29°13 (1903) ”. - Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States, E.’—Kenrucny ’—Texas*-”. Central America— Mexico: sonora: 1883 (iH. K. Morrison). A single specimen (35721) in poor condition, but lacking the white costal spot which distinguishes prunifolzella Chmb.
RECURVARIA Hw. =§Evacora Clms.; =Erporuza Chmb.; =Srnoz Chmb. ; =AnarHauza Meyr. Type 1: Tinea nanella S-D., Hb. (Hnmn. 1870). Recurvaria Hw. Lp. Br. 547-58 sp. 1-47 (1828) ; Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 279-81 no. 423 sp. 416-7 (1870), Tbl. 41 no. 423 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 167-8 (1870) ; 99 2
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Stgr Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 296 no. 199 sp. 1997-8 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 429, 669-71 no. 45 sp. 1-2 P£. 8° 268-9 (1882) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 155 no. 315 sp. 2873-4 (1901) ; Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 500-1 sp. 5596--605 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 807-15 Pf. 29-15 (1903): 30 725-6 tf. 726°4 (1906): Can. Ent. 38 212 (1906) : Ent. News 19 316-7 (1908); Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 356-7 no. 16 sp. 1-2 (1910).
Type 2: Evagora apicitripunctella Clms. (Clms. 1860).
§Evaagora Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 165-6 (1860): Clms-Stn. Tin. N-Am. x, 119-21 (1872) ; Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 182 (1882): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 63-6 sp. 21-6 (1897) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-9, 934 (1903): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5 200 (1903).
Type 3: Gelechia (Teleia?) dorsivittella. Z. (=vagatioella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873).
Ewornea Chmb. +Ezporz0a Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 186-7 (1873). t{Erporuza Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229-30 (1873). Ezporzoa Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8, 812-3 (1903).
Type 4: Anacampsis robiniella Fitch (=/fuscopallidella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873). Sinoz Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 229-231 (1873); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8, 812-13 (1903).
Type 5: Phalaena Tinea leucatella Cl., L.
*Recurvaria (Hw.) HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 44 no. 71 Pf. 14°d (1858), 205-6 no. 71 sp. 573-4 (1854). Apnanauta Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 579-80 no. 7 sp. 1-2 (1895) ; Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 807-8 (1903).
[*Rucvrvaria (Hw.) Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 606-7 no. 17 sp. 1 (1895) =Acomesra Hb. (Type cinerella Cl.; Dp. 1838) vide Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 82 no. 18 (1897). ]
1. Recurvaria rhicnota, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 4.)
Antennae pale cinereous, annulated with dark brown. Palpi with the median joint somewhat densely clothed, not hirsute, terminal joint as long as the median, acuminate; whitish cinereous, with two broad bands of dark brown on each joint, the anteterminal band on the median joint narrower than the other three. Head whitish cinereons, sprinkled with dark brown. Thoraw dark brown, sprinkled with pale cinereous. Forewings olivaceous brownish, with a slight ochreous tinge, profusely speckled with pale cinereous, especially on their basal half; with numerous dark brown spots and blotches, of which the more conspicuous are two costal on either side of the middle, one discal a little beyond the middle, one dorsal before the tornus, and three or four smaller marginal, around the apex; cilia brownish ochreous, with a shade of fuscous speckling running through their middle. Exp. al.15 mm. Hind- wings narrower than the forewings, slightly bisinuate below the apex ; bronzy brownish grey ; cilia (12) brownish grey. Abdomen greyish brown. Legs, hind tibiae with brownish ochreous hairs above; the tarsi greyish brown, with four pale annulations.
Type 2 (65784) Mus. Wism. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab, Guatemata: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique.
Allied to 5598 colubrinae Busck.
2. Recurvaria sartor, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 7.)
Antennae black, with indistinct whitish annulations. Palpi recurved, median joint slightly roughened beneath, terminal nearly as long as median, slender; white, with two black annulations on the terminal,
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and a few black scales on the outer side of the median. Head white. Thoraa pale fawn-brownish.
Forewings fawn-brownish, with a lilac tinge (possibly due to abrasion), the costa is slightly shaded along the basal half; there is a patch of black raised scales on the dorsum at one-fourth, partially connected
by blackish scaling along the dorsum, with a second smaller but otherwise similar spot at about two-
thirds ; cilia fawn-brownish about the apex, with a slight speckled appearance, becoming pale brownish
grey on the tornus and at the dorsum. xp.al.11mm. AHindwings pale shining silvery grey ; cilia
pale brownish grey. Abdomen dark brownish grey. Legs whitish, with four black tarsal spots above.
Type 3 (65792) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM.
Hab. Mexico: GuerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
A distinct species.
8. Recurvaria thysanota, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 5.)
Antennae somewhat stout; cinereous, with faint darker annulations. Palpi chalky-white, the median joint somewhat expanded on either side at its apex, shaded with brownish fuscous externally at its base; terminal joint about as long as the median, porrect, with two fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax chalky-white, the tegulae smeared with brownish fuscous. Forewings chalky-white, somewhat shaded and sprinkled with brownish fuscous; a dark brownish fuscous line on the base along the fold and another from the middle of the wing to above the apex are blended by brownish shading on the basal half of the cell; a small fuscous dot lies a little above the outer extremity of the fold, and there is another at the extreme apex; apical and subapical cilia whitish, sprinkled with brownish fuscous ; tornal cilia unsprinkled, inclining to brownish ochreous. wp. al. 10 mm. Hindwings nearly as broad as the forewings, oblique below the produced apex; g with a conspicuous yellowish ochreous limbal hair-pencil; shining, pale steely grey; cilia brownish cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen shining, steel-whitish. Legs whitish cinereous.
Type & (65786) Mus, Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM.
Hab. Mexico: cuerreRo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
Most nearly allied to juntperella Krft. [Jr. N-Y. Ent. Soc. 11 153, 157-8 Pf. 9° 3, 17 (1903)], but separable by the limbal hair-pencil, and the slightly different markings,
4, Recurvaria flagellifer, sp. n.
Antennae pale brownish fuscous. Palpi white, the median joint black nearly to its apex on the outer side, but not within nor above; terminal joint with two blackish annulations. Head and Yhoraw dirty whitish, the latter sprinkled with brownish fuscous. Forewings dirty whitish, profusely sprinkled with brownish fuscous, with numerous small spots of pale, slightly raised. scales; the fuscous clouding tends to assume the form of oblique shades descending outward from the costa, but these are so confused and ill-defined that they do not constitute true bands or fasciae, nor do they reach the dorsum; the first of these is near the base and can be traced to the fold and a little beyond it; the second is a little before the middle, rather less oblique, but in some specimens more strongly marked than the first; the third consists mainly of a larger dark fuscous cloud before the commencement of the costal cilia, and opposite to this is a smaller patch on the dorsum, the terminal portion of the wing being also more or less suffused ; cilia of the same colour as the wing-surface, with the same speckled appearance. Hxp. al. 11-13 mm. AHindwings shining, pale greyish; cilia shining, brownish ochreous; ¢ with strong bright ochreous flexal hair-pencil. Abdomen brownish fuscous, Legs dirty whitish, with fuscous tarsal shade- ‘bands.
Type 3 (85777); 2 (65778) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PIT (65779-80) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Seven specimens.
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5. Recurvaria sticta, sp. n.
nae whitish ochreous, barred above with black beyond the rather thickened basal joint. Palpi whitish, the basal half of the median joint black on the outer side, with a small black spot before its apex ; terminal joint with two black annulations, Head and Thorax whitish ochreous. Forewings whitish ochreous, minutely dusted with pale brown and some blackish scales, with numerous black spots around which the brownish dusting is rather more profuse; at the extreme base of the costa is a small reduplicated black spot, with another at the middle of the base beneath it; a black costal spot before the middle is followed by a larger one, somewhat quadrangular, beyond the middle, after which three small black dots along the base of the costal cilia are followed by an oblique black apical streak ; @ conspicuous outwardly oblique black dorsal patch arises immediately beyond the flexus, extending across the fold before its middle; there is a broken black streak along the outer half of the cell, a dorsal spot before the tornus, three or four small black spots along the termen, and one or two others just beyond the cell, enclosed by a faintly indicated whitish line, strongly bent outward, passing from the costal to the dorsal cilia ; terminal cilia whitish ochreous, minutely dusted with black which forms a faint line running through them beyond their middle ; dorsal cilia greyish ochreous ; underside profusely shaded with fuscous. wp. al.10-12 mm. Hindwings pale bluish grey along the middle, the costa narrowly, the dorsum broadly tinged with brownish ochreous; underside sprinkled with fuscous along the costa, especially at the apex; cilia greyish ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, with conspicuous black tarsal annulations.
Type 3 (65787) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65789-90) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: GuERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens.
6. Recurvaria picula, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 6.).
Antennae white, with slender black annulations. Palpt white, the median joint moderately clothed, black at
the base, with an olivaceous spot on its outer side toward its apex ; terminal joint with two olivaceous brownish annulations. Head and Thorax white, the tegulae with a black spot at their base. Forewings white, slightly smeared with olivaceous brown between the black markings, which consist of four elongate costal spots—one at the base, forming the origin of an outwardly oblique black and brown fascia, in which some of the scales are slightly raised, reaching the dorsum at one-third from the base; one, scarcely before the middle, one beyond the middle, and a fourth, forming a somewhat broken patch, just before the apex ; there is another mixed black and brownish spot on the dorsum before the tornus, while a little below each of the two middle costal spots is a black dot; terminal cilia whitish, mottled with olivaceous brownish ; dorsal cilia grey. Hwp.al.10 mm. Hindwings grey; cilia grey, with a slight brownish tinge, especially at the termen. Abdomen grey. Legs white, smeared with grey on their outer sides.
Type (5978 Wism. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. fab. MExico: VERA cruz: Cordova, II. 1908 (Ff. Knab). Unique.
7. Recurvaria dorsivittella Z.
=vagatioella Chmb."~", Gelechia (Teleia ?) dorsivittella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 28:1873 267-8 Pf. 3:20 (1873)?
Eidothoa vagatioella Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 186-7 (1873)*. Hidothea vagatioella Chmb. Can. Ent. 7 105-6 (1875)°. Gelechia dorsivittella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 143 (1878) *. Gelechia vagatioella Chmb, Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 139, 147 (1878)°. Gelechia dorsivittella Hgn. Pap. 4 98 (1884)°; Riley, Smith’s List Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5857 (1891) ". Gelechia vagatiocella Riley, Smith’s List Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5505 (1891)*. Aristotelia dorsivittella Wism. Pr. Z, Soc. Lond. 1897 66 sp. 26 (1897)*; Dietz, Smith’s Ins. N-Jers. 475 (1900). Recurvaria dorsivittella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 501 sp. 5603 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 808, 813-4 (1903) ”. |
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Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States'~’ — Eastern Srares’*-? — Ken- TucKY 21} ”_Texas'®*'?, Central America—Mexico: guerrero: Amula, 6000 ft.,
VILL. (A. H. Smith). West Indies °— St. Crorx: 6-14 V. (Gudmann, Hedemann) *.
A single specimen only (65785) received from Amula.
EPITHECTIS Meyr. Type 1: Phalaena Tinea mouffetella L. (Snln. 1882). §Bracuura Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 189, 230-3 no. 419 sp. 3833-7 (1870), Tbl. 85 no. 419 (1876) ; Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 166 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 292 no. 195 sp. 1871-7 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 430, 671-3 no. 46 sp. 1 Pf. 8° 259, 271 (1882).
Type 2: Gelechia lathyri Stn.
Erituectis Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 580-1 no. 8 sp. 1-2 (1895); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 154 no, 313 sp. 2850-8 (1901); Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 303-4 no. 14 sp. 78 (1904): Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 592 (1905);- Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 501-2 sp. 5608-13 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 772, 816-9 Pf. 30°17 (1903) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 356 no. 15 sp. 1-9 (1910).
Type 3: Gelechia attributella Wkr. (=diffcilisella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1873). §Taverrz Chmb. Can. Ent. (4 192-3), 5 229-82 (1873); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 816-7
Pf. 80°17 (1903). [ Taygete Chmb. regarded as homonymous with Taygetis Hb. Verz. Schm., 55-6 (1816) Busck J. c.]
Type 4: Parasia ? subsimella Clms. (Clms. 1860). . *Parasta (? Dp.) Clms. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 12 173 (1860) ; Clms-Stn. Tin, N. Am. x, 136-7 (1872); Busck, Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 816, 819, 934 (1903).
1. Epithectis lasciva, sp.n. (Tab. IT. fig. 8.)
Antennae ochreous, stained and obscurely annulate with blackish. Palpi ochreous, a black band before the apex of the median joint, a narrower one at the base, and another wider one before the apex of the terminal. Head dull ochreous, mixed with smoky fuscous scales. Zhorax ochreous, with some black scaling posteriorly and on the tegulae. Morewings pale ochreous, with some streaky shades of darker brownish ochreous above and below the fold, along the cell, and beyond it; a short black streak, at the base, reaches nearly to the flexus, but does not actually touch the margin, and is followed by three, elongate, black costal spots, gradually increasing in size—the first near the base, the second before the middle, the third, and most conspicuous, beyond the middle; below each of the two latter are a few black dots, and beyond the last is a series of small marginal black spots running around the apex and termen ; cilia ochreous dusted with smoky fuscous. Hwp.al.85 mm. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia pale greyish ochreous, Abdomen greyish ochreous. Legs pale ochreous.
Type 3 (5843 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PZ (83607) Mus. Wilsm. BM.1} Hab. Panama: canau zone: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (4. Busck). Two specimens.
2.-Epithectis platysoma, sp. n. Antennae dull brown above, inclining to ochreous beneath. Palpz pale fawn-ochreous, blotched with dull brown on the outer side of the median joint to beyond the middle, as well as broadly around the base and narrowly before the apex of the terminal joint. Head brownish ochreous, face paler. Thorax dull
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brown, posteriorly margined with ochreous. orewings narrow, elongate, lanceolate towards the apex, the costa slightly arched towards the base; pale fawn-ochreous, with a short dull brown basal patch, a slightly oblique dark brown half-fascia at one-third from costa to fold, somewhat interrupted below its ‘ broad costal extremity; a shorter semi-fasciaform blotch of the same colour beyond the middle, not reaching to the fold in some specimens, but continued posteriorly to the dorsum 1n others, the apex and termen being also clouded with dull brown; cilia brownish ochreous, except on the costa where they partake of the colour of the brown apex. wp. al. 18-21 mm. Hindwings much broader than the forewings, not incised below the apex; pale cinereous, with a slight ochreous tinge ; cilia brownish ochreous. Abdomen flattened, with angular projections of scales at the sides of the segments ; brownish "ochreous, shading to brown posteriorly. Legs ochreous, shaded with brown externally. Type 3 (4714); @ (65879) Mus. Wism. BM. [PZ. (4715) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: puranco: Milpas (Forrer): VERA cruz: Las Vegas, 8000 ft., 1887 (W. Schaus). Four specimens.
Closely allied to 5609 bicostimaculella Chmb., but differing in its larger size and more ochreous colouring, in the brownish ochreous cilia (especially of the forewings), which in the other species are white, in the prolongation of the first costal patch to or beyond the fold, and the inward expansion of the second costal patch on the cell.
3. Epithectis critica, sp.n. (Tab. Il. fig. 9.)
Antennae blackish. Palpi white, the median joint black on its basal half externally. Head white. Thorax - ereamy white, the extreme base of the tegulae blackish. Forewings creamy ochreous, becoming more ochreous towards the apex, the costa blackish from the base to beyond the middle and profusely dusted with black towards the apex; a black dusted patch crosses the fold beyond its middle, not reaching the dorsum, and beyond this the apical portion of the wing is profusely dusted with black intermixed with whitish scales along the lines of the nervules; the cilia on the termen and apex are thickly peppered
_ throughout their length with black scale-points, alternating with whitish ochreous. xp. al, 9 mm. Hindwings narrower than the forewings, elongate, trapezoidal, somewhat angular below the projecting
apex; pale grey; cilia brownish grey. Leys whitish ochreous, thickly peppered with black scaling externally on the tibiae and tarsi.
Type 2 (65793) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique.
Very similar in size and appearance to 2856 lathyri Stn., the type of the genus Epithectis Meyr. It should be noted that neither of the two potential geneotypes of Enithectis agrees precisely with Meyrick’s description : lathyri Stn. (like erttica) having HW: 3-4 closely approximate, but not connate, while mouffetella S-D. has these veins stalked, not connate.
AROGALEA, gen. n. (dpwyds =expedient ; ddeos= fulness.) Type: Gelechia cristifasciella Chmb.
Antennae 3, basal joint without pecten; 9 simple. Labial Palpi recurved, acute; median joint somewhat thickened with rough scales beneath, terminal smooth. Mavillary Palpi short, converging. Head smooth, with large flat iridescent scales. Zhoraw smooth. Forewings elongate, with somewhat straightened costa, slightly depressed to the lanceolate apex, of even width thence to the flexus; with raised scales: neuration 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, to costa; 2-6 separate, 2 remote from 3. Hindwings 1, with
oblique, but not incised termen: neuration 8 veins; 3 and 4 separate; 5 cubital; 6 and 7 separate, nearly parallel. Abdomen moderate. Legs, hind tibiae hairy above.
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12. Arogalea cristifasciella Chmb. Q.
J. H. Durrant, del.
Nearest to Telphusa Chmb., from which it differs in having HW: 6-7 separate, and from Leptogencia Meyr. [Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 257, 412-3 no, 47 (1904)] in the lack of the rough projecting tuft on the lower side of the palpi, as also in having FW: 2 remote from 3. Although not nearly related, Arogalea is liable to be confused in tabulations with Aristotelia Hb., owing to the separation of HW: 6-7. Arogalea differs in these veins not being truly parallel, in HW: 5 being bent towards 4 at base, and in the presence of raised scales in the forewings. |
1. Arogalea archaea, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 10.)
Antennae white, delicately annulate with brown. Palpi white, the median joint slightly thickened, with a proad olive-brown band near the base, a narrower one near its apex ; terminal joint with a narrow band near its base, a wide one at its apex. Head and face snow-white. Thorax white, dusted with olive- brown. Forewings white, profusely dusted with olive-brown, with many brownish fuscous spots and mottlings ; a small one at the base of the costa is followed by another a little beyond it, a third lying below the base of the fold; a dorsal streak at about one-fifth crosses the fold upward and terminates on the cell; above and beyond this are two more spots, one on the costa, one below and beyond it; these are followed by a broad brownish fuscous costal blotch, beyond the middle, which merges at its lower end in an olive-brown median shade, and opposite to it is a scarcely smaller dorsal blotch, the apical portion of the wing being mottled throughout with brownish fuscous, mixed with olive-brown ; cilia white, with lines of olive-brown dusting running through them, tornal cilia pale brownish cinereous. Exp. al. 13 mm. Hindwings (1) shining, pale grey ; cilia brownish cinereous. -Abdomen brownish cinereous. Legs pale brownish cinereous, the tarsal joints distinctly banded with fuscous.
Type 3 (65794) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM.
Hab. Mexico: GuerRERo: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (7. H. Smith). Unique.
2. Arogalea senecta, sp. n.
Antennae stout, greyish fuscous. Palpi white, with a broad blackish band at the base and a narrower one before the apex of the median joint ; with two blackish bands around the terminal joint, one before, the other beyond the middle. Head and Thorax greyish white, sprinkled with dark fuscous. Forewings
‘narrow, elongate, greyish white, with dark fuscous sprinkling throughout and black scale-patches, some of which are distinctly raised; a small raised black spot on the costa near the base, a larger black spot in and above the fold at about one-fourth, a distinctly raised black patch on and above the dorsum beneath it, accompanied by a few chestnut-brown scales, also raised ; beyond this series of spots, which are more or less
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connected, a black costal spot occurs before the middle, with a curved black streak a little below and beyond it at the upper edge of the cell; this is succeeded by an inwardly oblique blackish cloud coming from the costa beyond the middle and almost connected with an opposite black dorsal spot, the latter narrowly produced outward and diffused nearly to the tornus; the apical portion of the wing thickly sprinkled with dark fuscous, a streak of the same running through the basal half of the cilia at the apex ; cilia whitish grey, assuming an ochreous tint along the dorsum. up. al.12mm. Hindwings pale, shining, bluish grey; cilia ochreous grey. -Abdomen shining, pale brownish ochreous. Legs: anterior pair barred with black and white; posterior legs whitish, the tarsal joints with blackish annulations. Type 3 (65797) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PZ. (65798) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. Mexico: GuerRERo: Amula, 6000 ft., IX. (H. H. Smith). ‘Two specimens.
8. Arogalea albilingua, sp. n.
Antennae white, with faint darker annulations. Palpi with strong sooty black patch at the base of the median joint, a small brown spot before the apex ; with a black annulus near the base of the terminal joint and a wider one near its apex. Haustellum scaled with white at its base, showing somewhat conspicu- ously between the dark eyes and bases of the palpi. Masillary Palpi short, whitish. Head shining, silvery white. horas white, faintly dusted with brownish fuscous. Forewinys shining white, sprinkled with brownish ochreous and brownish fuscous scales ; with five conspicuous black marginal spots, one of these at the base of the costa is reduplicated, the white ground showing between its extremities ; a second costal spot, before the middle, is followed by a third beyond the middle, opposite to which and alittle beyond it is a black dorsal spot of raised scales at the end of the fold; beyond this again is a speck of black scales on the termen a little above the tornus; another conspicuous black spot, with raised white scales intermixed, lies across the middle of the fold, a smaller similar spot on the cell about the middle of the wing; cilia white, with some greyish fuscous dusting along their base, becoming shining ochreous on the dorsum; underside fuscous. xp. al. 10-10°5 mm. Hindwings pale steely grey ; cilia shining, ochreous ; underside pale rosy grey. Abdomen shining, pale greyish ochreous. Legs shining, whitish ochreous, the hind tarsi faintly spotted.
Type 3 (65795) Mus. Wl1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65796) US. Nat. Mus. }
Hab, Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
ZELOSYNE, gen. n. (fn\oobvyn = emulation.) Type: Zelosyne poecilosoma Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 11.)
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Antennae simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi recurved; median joint with well-developed brush beneath ; terminal joint slightly thickened by coarse scaling, longer than median. Mazillary Palpi short. Haustellum scaled. Ocelle absent. Head and Thoraw smooth, Forewings with costa straight, dorsum parallel, apex considerably depressed, rounded: neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa; rest separate, 5-6 remote; 4 from angle, 3 remote from 4, nearer to 2. Hindwings trapezoidal, termen oblique, cilia 1+: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 separate, nearly parallel; 3-4 separate; 5 cubital; 11 connecting radius to 12. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy.
A distinct genus, differing from <Arogalea in the origin of FW: 2-3, and the coincidence of 7-8.
1. Zelosyne poecilosoma, sp.n. (Tab. Il. fig. 11.)
Antennae white, much stained with brownish on the basal half; basal joint white. Palpi white, median joint yellowish brown on the outer side to two-thirds; terminal joint white, a narrow band of pale brown at its middle. Head white. Thorax and tegulae yellowish brown, a large white spot posteriorly. Forewings shining, white, with yellowish brown markings ; a short basal patch, wider on the costa than on the dorsum, where it does not reach the flexus, is narrowly edged outwardly with blackish scales ; a central fascia, also slightly wider on the costa than on the dorsum, is narrowly edged before and behind with blackish scales; a patch of the same yellowish brown colour covers the apical portion of the wing including the tornus, this is slightly produced backward on the costa, nearly reaching the outer edge of the central fascia; it is narrowly edged with black on its inner side, and along the costa, above the greatly depressed apex, is an elongate patch of black scales, more or less diffused inward across the fascia, and clearly defined by a black line on its outer side, where it is followed by a rather broad line of yellowish brown before the cilia which are brown, with a slender white line along their base, and contain a few blackish scales, especially below the apex. Hap. al.10 mm. Hindwings and cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey above, obliquely striped on the sides by three or four alternating streaks of yellowish, black, and white. Legs pale cinereous, shaded transversely with brownish grey, leaving one or two pale spots on the tarsi.
Type & (5847 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [P7’. (83609) Mus. Wlsm. BM.] Hab. PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck).
Two specimens, taken at light. [33609 had been badly broken, and was mounted for the neuration ; the head was too much injured for figuring. Drnt.|
PHTHORIMAEA Meyr. Type: Gelechia (? Bryotropha) operculella Z. (Meyr. 1902).
PutTHoriMaEA Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. 88 103-4 (1902); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 502 sp. 5616-9 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 821-8 Pf. 30-19 (1903): 30726 (1906); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6160-3 (1903) ; Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 315-6 no. 20 sp. 94 (1904); Wlsm. Fn. Haw. 1 483-5, 744 no. 7 sp. 21 Pf. 13+ 27 (1907) ; Meyr. Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 352 (1909).
1. Phthorimaea impudica, sp. n.
Antennae whitish, with slight fuscous annulations. Palpi white; the rather projecting brush on the under- side of the median joint streaked with dark fuscous; a blackish ring around the base of the terminal joint. Head and Thorax whitish, mottled with dark fuscous. Forewings dull white, much sprinkled and suffused with pale greyish fuscous, among which are some slightly raised black scales; the extreme
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base of the costa is whitish, but beyond it the margin is stained with brown, three times narrowly inter- rupted by the pale ground-colour, thus broken into a series of three or four outwardly diminishing elongate costal spots ; a short ochreous length-streak occurs near the base, below the costa, and at one- third are two small patches of raised, black, whitish tipped scales, one below the fold the other below the costa; at the end of the cell is a small fuscous stain, accompanied by a few ochreous scales, the apical portion and cilia being much dusted with greyish fuscous. Exp. al. 105 mm. Hindwings grey ;
cilia brownish grey. Abdomen grey ; anal tuft pale ochreous, the appendages strongly developed. Legs whitish.
Type d (5845 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. [PT. (33608) Mus. Wism. BM. | Hab. Panama: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, 1907 (4. Busck). ‘Two specimens.
GNORIMOSCHEMA Busck. Type: Gelechia gallaesolidaginis Riley (Busck 1900).
Gnorimoscuema Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 23 227-8 Pf. 1-3 (1900): Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 502-4 sp. 5620-41 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 823-35 Pf. 30° 20 (1903); Krft. Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 11 158-62 Pf. 9° 5, 7, 18 (1908): Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor- Am. 110 sp. 6164— 88 (1903); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 757-8 (1904); Meyr. Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29
259, 316-22 no. 21 sp. 95-108 (1904) : Jr. Bomb. NH. Soc. 16 592 (1905) ; Busck Can. Ent. 40 193-4 (1908): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 11 175-7 (1909).
1. Gnorimoschema dudiella Busck. Gnorimoschema dudiella Busck [Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503 sp. 5627 (1902)’ LN.]: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824, 828-9 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6172 (1908) *. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ ® — Arizona? [ = “Col.”*]. Central America—Mexico: GuerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith).
A single specimen (65800) in good condition, determined by Busck.
2. Gnorimoschema henshawiella Busck.
= § ochreostrigella Chmb. 1877 (nec Chmb. 1875—sp. alt. *).
Gelechia ochreostrigella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 3 126-7 (1877)'. Gnorimoschema ochreostrigelia Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503 sp. 5632 (1902)°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824 (1908) *.
Gnorimoschema henshawieila Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 831, 869 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6177 (1903) °.
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ ~—Cotorapo*~ >. Central America— Mexico : GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). |
A single specimen (65799), determined by Busck.
3. Gnorimoschema saphirinella Chmb.
Gelechia saphirinella Chmb. Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. 2 250 (1875)*. Gelechia sapharinella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 147 (1878)?; Hgn. Pap. 4 99 (1884) °; Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 102 sp. 5473 (1891)*. Gnorimoschema saphirinella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 503
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sp. 5634 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 824, 832 (1903) °; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6179 (1903); Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 27 758 (1904) °. Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States’ °—Districr or CotumBia® “—Texas*" [= Ky.?7%; =**Col.”>*]. Central America — Mzxico: sonora: 1883 (Hl. K. Morrison).
A single specimen (35478), determined by Busck.
[Some uncertainty as to the origin of the type of this and other species has been occasioned by the omission of the localities in connection with the descriptions by Chambers, Cin. Qr. Jr. Sc. 2 244-59 (1875). Hagen (*) records the type of saphi- rinella as from “ Ky.?”, while Busck (*°) writes “It was described from Colorado.” Chambers (J. c. 244) said “the following fourteen species are from California” i. e.—1 Endrosis ferrestrella ; 2 Gelechia lacteus-ochrella ; 3 maculatusella ; 4 thorace- strigella; 5 aequepulvella; 6 thoracenigracella; 7 thoracefasciella; 8 occidentella ; 9 grisseochrella; 10 ochreostrigella; 11 discostrigella; 12 ocherfuscella; 13 Tinea behrensella; 14 niveocapitella; and (J. c. 258) added the information that “'The fore- going descriptions of ‘ Teneina from Texas’ are the conclusion of a series, the remainder of which have been heretofore published in the Canadian Entomologist.” The Texan species would therefore start with the second series of Gelechia, commencing with saphirinella on p. 250 and continuing to the end of the paper. Drnt. |
TABERNILLATA, gen. n.
(TABERNILLA, nom. pr.)
Type: Tabernillaia ephialtes Wlsm. (Tab. II. fig. 12.)
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14. Tabernillaia ephialtes Wism. ¢.
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Antennae simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved ; both joints evenly thickened with appressed scales, nearly smooth; terminal joint nearly as long as median, pointed. Maxillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate-ovate, obtusely pointed : newration 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa ; rest separate, Hinduings 9 normal, costa somewhat excised from middle to apex, termen sinuate: neuration 8 veins 5 6 and 7 almost connate ; 3-4 connate ; 5 cubital. Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae slightly hairy.
In the ¢ the hindwings are remarkably specialised, not reminding one in any way of a Gelechiad; the flexus and apex are normal, but the margin between them 18 entirely altered in shape; from the apex to where 6 attains the margin on the termen the wing may be described as hastate, it then becomes widened to the flexus, and this part is somewhat complicated by folds. Of the veins only 8, 7, and 6 are conspicuous ; 8 attains the costa at the end of the sinuation beyond the middle; 7 is straight, to apex; 6 arises from 7 at basal fourth, and bending downwards follows the termen.
“This genus” at Mr. Busck’s request “‘is named after the old town Tabernilla, in the centre of the Canal Zone, which, with the entire surrounding country, will a few years hence be a thing of the past, flooded by fathoms of water at the bottom of the Panama Canal.”
1. Tabernillaia ephialtes, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 12.)
Antennae dark fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Pulpi, ¢ dark bronzy fuscous, the upper and inner sides of the median joint shining, steely whitish; Q with the median joint wholly whitish, as well as the inner side of the terminal. Head, ¢ shining, dark bronzy fuscous; Q shining, steel-white. Thorax dark bronzy fuscous. Forewings dark bronzy fuscous, with a slight coppery tinge about the middle of the wing in a strong light; an outwardly oblique, ovate, snow-white patch descends from the costa, at about one-sixth, slightly overreaching the fold; another, rounded, rather smaller white spot lies on the costa at about one-fourth from the apex; cilia fuscous. xp. al.10 mm. Hindwings in the ¢ much dilated at the flexus, with an indented angle beyond it, to which points a short fuscous hair-pencil resting in a fold between the veins, thence evenly narrowed, not sinuate, apex acute; shining, pale bronzy grey; cilia fuscous: in the 2 the hindwings are of the ordinary Galechiaform type, the termen slightly sinuate below the moderately acute apex; a little darker than in the ¢. Abdomen steely greyish ; fuscous across the middle in the ¢. Legs bronzy fuscous; hind tibiae with a white patch at the base of each pair of spurs, hind tarsi with white annulations; front tarsi with a transverse white band across the first joint. -
Type 2 (5850 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.; ¢ (5849 Wlsm. Det. 1908) 2, on slide, US. Nat. Mus.— 4 (33610) Mus. Wlsm. BM.
Hab. Panama: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla, VI. 1907 (A. Busck). Two specimens.
Very similar in appearance to Telphusa niveisignella Z., which is however a much larger species and differs in structure from ephialtes.
EUDACTYLOTA, gen. n.
(ev==pretty ; Dactylota Suln., nom. gen.) Type: Neodactylota barberella Busck. (Tab. IT. fig. 13.)
Antennae 3, simple; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, median joint somewhat thickened with smoothly appressed scales; terminal joint as long as median, smooth, acute. Maaillary Palpi short. Haustellum well-developed. Ocell present. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, pointed, costa nearly straight, apex not depressed, termen very oblique, continued in even
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curve from 6 to flexus: neuration 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; rest separate, 2 more remote from 3 than 3 is from 4. Hindwings 1, bilobed in both ¢ and Q, butslightly differing in shape; costa nearly straight to apex which is pointed; termen excised between 6 and 5 and forming two lobes, the apicai long and pointed, the lower much shorter, broad, its somewhat blunt apex being slightly above 5; dorsum somewhat sinuate between 14 and 2: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 stalked; 3-4 separate; 5 cubital ; discoidal subobsolete on fold above 5; 12 connected to radius by 11. Abdomen moderate. Legs: hind tibiae hairy.
Allied to Neodactylota Busck, but HW:5 is separate from 4; the hindwings are bilobed in both sexes, and the ¢ lacks the pouch containing a hair-pencil.
1. Eudactylota barberella Busck. (Tab. II. fig. 13.)
Neodactylota barberella Busck {| Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 504 sp. 5644 (1902)' ZN.|: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 835, 836-7 Pf. 30° 23 (1903)*; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 110 sp. 6190 (1903) *.
Antennae cinereous, annulate with black, the annulations connected by slender black lines above. Palpi smooth, recurved to above the vertex, terminal joint longer than the median; cinereous, dusted with brownish fuscous scales. Heud and Thorax greyish brown. Forewings tawny chestnut-brown, dusted with pale cinereous and fuscous scales, especially on a transverse fascia from costa to tornus at two-thirds of the wing-length; the lower half of this fascia is margined on its inner side by a triangular dark fuscous shade, and the costa is narrowly shaded with fuscous from the base to the upper extremity of the fascia ; cilia tawny, dusted with fuscous atoms. Hp. al. 11-12 mm. Hindwings cinereous; cilia with an aeneous gloss. Abdomen shining, greyish cinereous; anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Hind Legs fuscous, speckled with pale cinereous scales, with two pale bands around the tibiae, and three around the tarsal joints.
Type 3 (6367) US. Nat. Mus. [WVt. 9 (65801 Amula) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM.]
Hab. AMERICA, N-C. United States*°—Arizona: Williams, 27. V. 1901 (H. 8. Barber)? [=“Ool.”*]. Central America —Mexico: auerRero: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Six specimens.
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TELPHUSA Chmb.
[?=Aprasrera Chmb.] ; = Xenorzcuia Meyr.
Type 1: Gelechia longifasciella Clms. (= Te/phusa curvistrigella Chmb. ; Chmb. 1872).
TeLpHusa Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 132-3, 174 (1872): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4163 (1878); Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 496-7 sp. 5554-66 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773, 783-9, © 931-2 Pf. 28-5 (1903); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 109 sp. 6094-6107 (1903) ; Buseck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 80 722-3 (1906): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 90-1 (1907) ; Wilsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1907 935-7 no. 17 sp. 32-4 Pf. 51°12, 15 (1908) ; Meyr. Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 11-12 Pf. 4° 4-7 (1909).
Type 2: Anacampsis aethiops Wstwd.
Xxnotecuia Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 583-4 no. 11 sp. 1-3 (1895) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 72 no. 13 sp. 88 (1897).
[Type: Adrasteia alexandriacella Chmb.
Aprastera Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 149-50, 206-7 (1872): Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 128 (1878). Psoricoprera (Stn.) Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 72 (1873). ?—TrLpuusa Chmb.—vide Busck Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 784 (1903).]
1. Telphusa ochrifoliata, sp. n. (Tab. Il. fig. 15.)
Antennae dark fuscous, annulate with pale ochreous. Palpr dark fuscous, sprinkled with pale ochreous ; the median joint above, and the apex of the terminal, pale ochreous. Head shining, steel-whitish. Thorax dark fuscous, with some ochreous scaling. Forewings purplish fuscous, blackish at the extreme base; with a large cream-ochreous leaf-like patch, commencing near the base, its upper edge touching the costa, its lower edge resting on the fold, and its outer extremity running to an outwardly pointed angle on the cell about the middle; this patch is narrowly margined, except on the costa, with black, and there are two black dots beyond it, one at each angle of the cell, with a few chestnut-brown scales between them; a pale cream-ochreous spot occurs at the commencement of the costal cilia; a smaller one, con- taining two black dots, on the termen below the apex; cilia fuscous, with some admixture of ochreous scales along the termen. Ewp.al.14mm. Hindwings grey, with a slight brownish tinge; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen fuscous. Legs pale cream-ochreous, banded with fuscous externally.
Type 3 (5974 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.
Hab. Mexico: VERA cruz: Cordova, I. (f. Knab). Unique.
9. Telphusa melanoleuca, sp. n.
Antennae black, with three white annulations about their middle; the basal joint white, with a black spot above on its outer half. Palpi stout, strongly recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median; black, the median joint with a white ring at each extremity, the terminal joint broadly ringed at its base, and narrowly before its apex, with white. Mead white above. T'horax black. Furewings brown-black, with an oblique white band leaving the costa at one-fifth, descending obliquely outward to the dorsum at one-fourth, and extending along it to the tornus, before and about which it throws up two angular encroachments upon the dark ground-colour, which almost divides them on the dorsum hefore the tornus ; in this white band, below the middle of the fold, is a shining bottle-green spot, preceded by dark raised scales on the basal patch, with two tufts of white raised scales on either side of the fold, one above the other ; beyond it a third patch of white raised scales lies above the fold, at the first upward angle of the white dorsal band; a small white costal streak-spot precedes the cilia and is followed by a series of four, reaching to the apex, below which is another which almost meets the last of the series; costal and apical cilia, except where interrupted by the white spots, brown-black ; terminal and tornal cilia dirty whitish ;
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a bluish green iridescence pervades the part of the dark basal patch and the dark wing-surface about the lower edge of the cell. Hwp.al.16 mm. Hindwingsa little broader than the forewings, semitransparent ; pale cinereous, much shaded with lightish brown; cilia pale brownish. Abdomen brownish cinereous ; ‘white beneath. Legs pale cinereous, banded and shaded with brownish.
Type Q (65680) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [P7’. (65681) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO : Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
Resembling 5554 longifasciella Clms. in general appearance, but differing in the more broken white markings, and in the distinctness of the white costal and apical spots.
3. Telphusa ripula, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 16.)
Antennae black, with white annulations. Palpi with the median joint brown externally, paler on the inner
side, a white annulus around its apex; terminal! joint black, with a white spot before the apex. Head and Thorax pale brownish fuscous. Forewinys bronzy brown, mottled with blackish, and partially sprinkled with pale cinereous scales along the costa, and in a line from the base below the fold reaching the dorsum beyond the middie, also in a patch at the tornns; at about one-fourth from the base is a greenish white, outwardly oblique costal streak, not quite attaining to the dorsum, on either side of it are small patches of raised scales; the median area is blackish and is continued on the outer side of the oblique streak to nearly two-thirds the wing-length, its upper edge forming a zigzag line above the cell, partially outlined by whitish cinereous scales, with a few spots of dark steel-grey along the lower edge of the cell; the -apex is much speckled with pale cinereous; cilia blackish at the apex, fading to brownish grey and speckled with pale cinereous downward. ap. al. 14 mm. Hindwings brownish grey, more thickly scaled around the margins than towards the middle and base; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey, with paler transverse segmental lines; anal tuft greenish white. Legs brownish, dusted and faintly ringed with pale cinereous,
Type 2 (65693) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. Hab. Guatemata: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft. (G. C. Champion). Unique.
4. Telphusa chionostigma, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 17.)
Antennae bronzy black. Palpi with the median joint evenly hirsute beneath; whitish ochreous, touched with blackish above near its apex; terminal joint black, tufted at its upper side, the short naked apex ochreous. Head ochreous above; face whitish ochreous. Zhoraw and tegulae deep purplish black. Furewings deep purplish black, with two distinct, clearly defined, white spots—one ovate, placed obliquely, tuuching the costa at one-fourth from the base, its outer extremity resting on the fold, beyond which are a few ochreous scales in the fold; the other, semilunate, its base resting on the costa before the apex ; a minute white dot at the extreme apex; cilia smoky black. wp.al.19 mm. Hindwings and cilia smoky brownish fuscous. Abdomen and Legs purplish fuscous; hind tibiae banded with cream-white at each pair of spurs; hind tarsi also indistinctly banded with creamy white.
Type Q (5831 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus.
Hab. PanaMa: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla (A. Busck). Unique.
‘The terminal joint of the labial palpi with tuft of scales on the upper side, resembling that of Psoricoptera gibbosella Z., but hardly so strongly developed; the remote origin of veins 3 and 4 in the hindwings, and the stalking of 6 and 7, renders it
necessary to include this in Telphusa Chmb.
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5. Telphusa niveisignella 7. | Psoricoptera niveisignella Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. 18 333-5 Pf. 4° 106 (1877) *. Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America 1_Panama?: carrtgut’ (Rébbe). South America—CoLoMBIA : CUNDINAMARCA: Bogota (Baron von Nolcken)—PeRv: cuzco. Cuzco Mts. (Garlepp, Stgr. 1895).
The specimen from Bogota was determined by Zeller, and agrees with chionostigma in having HW: 6-7 stalked, and HW:3-4 remote, as also in the clothing of the palpi. The Cuzco specimen (73496) is in much finer condition, and the terminal joint of the palpi is consequently more evenly and strongly clothed.
6, Telphusa glandiferella 2.
—sella Chmb?; =t glandifuella Chmb.; =+ glandifera Chmb.
Gelechia (Anacampsis) glandiferella Z. Verh. ZB. Ges. Wien 23:1873 275-6 Pf. 4°25 (1873)’. Gelechia sella Chmb. Can. Ent. 6 238 (1874)*. Gelechia glandifuella Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 14 (1877)*. Gelechia glandifera Chmb. Can. Ent. 9 24 (1877)*. Gelechia glandiferella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 144 (1878) °; Hgn. Pap. 499 (1884)°. Gelechia sella Frey Pap. 4 99 (1884). Gelechia glandiferella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 101 sp. 5882 (1891) *. Xenolechia glandiferella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 72 sp. 38 (1897)°. Telphusa glandi- ferella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 497 sp. 5564 (1902) '°: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 784, 788-9 (1903) "'; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 109 sp. 6105 (1903) ”.
Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States*°—Kentucky 7__Tuxas! *°-”? ; VII- VIII': Bosque co.: 11-20. V, 22. VII, 10-25. X. (G. W. Belfrage)—Ca.ifornIa : MENDOCINO: Head of Noyo, 8-1]. V1. 1871 (Wism.): sHasta: Hatchet Creek, 14-17. VII. 1871 (Wism.); Pit River, 21-26. VII. 1871 (Wism.): Siskiyou: Mt. Shasta, 2.VILI — 1.1X. 1871 (Wism.). Central America—MExIco: TABASCO: Teapa, II. (#. Z. Smith). West Indies*’—Grenapa®: Mt. Gay Estate, 3000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith)”. .
PSORICOPTERA Stn.
Type: Gelechia (Chelaria) gibbosella Z. (Stn. 1854).
Psoricoprera Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. (+ PHozicoprzra 76), 100-1 no. 7 sp. 1 Pf. 4° 4¢ (1854) ; - Hnmn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin. 188, 192 no. 417 sp. 270 (1871), Tbl. 5, 31 no, 417 (1876) ; Stgr- Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 289 no. 193 sp. 1788 (1871); Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 428, 609-11 no. 41 sp. 1 Pf. 8° 259, 272 (1882); Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 569, 604-5 no. 14 sp. 1 (1895) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 140 no. 299 sp. 2507-8 (1901) ; Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 359 no. 23
Pf. 87°60 (1910).
1. Psoricoptera trigonota, sp. n.
Antennae slightly biserrate toward the. apex; umber-brown. alps strongly recurved, the terminal joint longer than the median, closely clothed above to the apex ; cinereous, mottled with umber-brown. Head dark umber-brown; face shining, fawn-ochreous. Thorax dark brown, mottled with shining fawn- ochreous. Forewings shining, fawn-ochreous, mottled with darker and paler shades of umber-brown, with some fuscous scaling at the base; on the commencement of the cell is a conspicuous flap of scales ;
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on the middle of the costa a large triangular patch, consisting of two shades of umber-brown, with some dark fuscous, is preceded and followed by small costal spots of the same; below it towards the dorsum, near to the base, are « few raised scales of umber-brown ; the outer third of the wing, except towards the costa, is much shaded with umber-brown, mottled, especially along the termen, with dark fuscous ; cilia mottled with pale fawn-ochreous and umber-brown, these, and all the darker markings on the wing- surface, are very changeable in colour, according to the angle at which the light strikes them. Exp. al. 16-21 mm. Hindwings greyish brown; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen yellowish brown, with paler transverse bars; anal tuft whitish ochreous, streaked with brown. Legs whitish ochreous ; hind tibiae speckled, and tarsi banded with umber-brown.
Type 3 (65630); 2 (65633) Teapa, Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv, Coll.) BM. [PTT. (65632, 65634; 6236 Wlsm. Det. 1908) US. Nat. Mus. ]
Hab. AMERICA, C-S. Central America—Mexico: tTapasco: Teapa, III-IV. (H. H. Smith)—PanaMa: panaMA: La Chorrera, 1.IV—-15.V.1898 (C. H. Dolby-Tyler). South America—Frencu Guiana: St. Jean, Rio Maroni (W. Schaus). Nine specimens.
This species agrees with Psoricoptera gibbosella Z. in neuration [F'W: 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 3-4 truncate. HW: 8 veins; 3-4 separate, truncate; 6-7 closely approximate towards base], but differs somewhat in the smooth scaling of the median joint of the palpi, thus resembling Prostomeus Busck, which however may be separated by having HW: 6-7 stalked.
GELECHIA Hb.
Type: Tinea rhombella S-D., Hb. Pf. 40-277 (Stph. 1835).
Gevecuia Hb. Verz. Schm. 415 sp. 4019-23 (1826) ; Stph. Ill. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 422 no. 1217 sp. 4021 (1835) ; Z. Is. 1889 197-202 no. 28 sp. 1-85 [A. a. 8. Getecura Z, Is. 1839 197- 200 sp. 6-53] (1839); HS. SB. Schm. Eur. 5 11, 43 no. 66 Pf. 12° 39, * 41-2 (1853), 157-88 sp. 397-505 (1854); Stn. Ins. Br. Lp-Tin. 76, 101-39 no. 8 sp. 1-95 Pf. 4° 5-5", 9-11-12, 10°12 (1854) : List Br. An. BM. 16 Lp. 65-86 no. 8 sp. 1-95 (1854) ; Wkr. Cat. Lp. BM. 29 568-659 no. 14 sp. 1-386 (1864): 80 1018-28 (1864) : 85 1828-31 (1866) ; Stn. NH. Tin. 9 1-276 Pl. 1-8 (1865) : 10 1-304 Pl. 9-16 (1867); Hninn. Schm. Deutsch. Tin, 188, 193-230 no, 418 sp. 271-832 (1870), Tbl. 5, 81-5 (1876); Stn. Ent. Mo. Mag. 7 165-6 (1870) ; Stgr-Wk. Cat. Lp. Eur. 289 no, 194 sp. 1789-1870 (1871) ; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 142-51 no. 303 sp. 2537-2768 (1901) ; Z. Hor. Soe. Ent. Ross. 13 335-73 (1877) ; Snln. Vlind. Nederl. Micr. 429, 619-68, 1087 no. 44 sp. 1-47 (A. GeLecuia 629-42, 1087 sp. 1-17) Pf. 8° 264,- 267, 11° 388-90 (1882): Tijd. Ent. 27 167-9 Pf. 9-2-3 (1884); Wism. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881 261-2 Pf. 12+ 30-1 (1881): 1891 92-4 Pf. 4° 30-1 (1891) : Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 519-20, 545 no. 39 sp. 71-9 (1892) : 1896 278 (1896) : 1897 72-7 no. 14 sp. 39-52 (1897): 1907 937-41 no. 18 sp. 35-40 Pf. 51+ 18-14 (1908) : Ent. Mo. Mag. 36 216-8 (1900) : 40 221-8, 265-7 (1904): NH. Sokotra 346-7 Pf. 21-5 (1903): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 33 197-8 (1907): Fn. Haw. 1 731-3, 744 no. 7°1 sp. 21-1 (1907); Meyr: Tr. NZ. Inst. 18:1885 162, 166-70 no. 5 sp. 6-14 (1886) : 39:1906 118-9 (1907) : 41:1908 12 (1909): Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1901 573-4 (1901): Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1908 725-6 (1908): Pr. Linn. Soc. NSW. 29 259, 308-13 no. 18 sp. 83-90 (1904): Ann. S-Afr. Mus. 5 351, 370-1 (1909): Ann. Transv. Mus. 2 12 Pf. 4° 8-9 (1909) ; Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 141-8 (1878); Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100-3 sp. 5298-5511 (1891);
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60 HETEROCERA.
Buseck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 511-18 sp. 5714-5833 (1902): Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 773,
- 851-902, 935-7 Pf. 31°29 (1903): 27 759-60 (1904): Can. Ent. 38 122-3 (1906): 40 194
(1908): Pr. Ent. Soc. Wash. 8 91-2 (1907) : 9 87-8 (1908): 11 88-9, 177-82 (1909): Jr. NY. Ent Soc. 15 136 (1907): Ent. News 19 317 (1908); Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor- Am. 111-12 sp. 6216-6328 (1903): Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 16 184-6 (1908) ; Strand Ber!. Ent. ‘Zits. 47 155-6 (1902) ; Fuchs Stett. Ent. Ztg. 68 323-4 (1902) ; Petry Deutsche Ent. Zts. Iris 17 3-4 (1904); Rbl. Ann. KK. Hofmus. Wien 19 349-50 sp 1807-14 Pf. 5° 22-4 (1904) ; Krulikovsky Rev. Russ. Ent. 5:1905 19-20 (1905) ; Mbl. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907 79 (1907); Chrtn. Nat. 30 (2s. 22) 59-60 (1908); Splr. Schm. Eur. 2 360-5 sp. 1-89 tf. 360° 125 Pf. 87: 65-77 (1910).
Busck [Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 852 (1903) ] notes that conclusella Wkr. and bosquella Chmb. differ from other species in having FW: 3-4 stalked; in this character they agree with rhombella S-D., the type of the genus Gelechia Hb. [FW: 12 veins; 7-8 stalked, to costa; 3-4 stalked; 5 remote from 6; closely approximate to 4 at base; rest separate. HW: 8 veins; 6-7 separate, but closely approximating towards base ; 3-4 shortestalked; 5 cubital, bent towards 4; 11 connecting radius to 12]; it is therefore obvious that the geneonym must be restricted to this group should subdivision
become necessary.
1. Gelechia bosquella Chmb. + basqueella Chmb. ({ bosquella Chmb.) ; =costipunctella Mschl.’. Oecophora basqueella Chmb. Can. Ent. '7 92 (1875) ". Gelechia basqueella Climb. Can. Ent. ‘7 124 : (1875)*. Gelechia? bosquella Chmb. Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 87, 142 (1878), Gelechia (Bryotropha ?) bosquella Wlsm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 10 178 (1882)*. Gelechia bosquella Hgn. Pap. 4 98 (1884) °. Gelechia costipunctella Mschl. Ab. Senck. Nat. Ges. 15 344, 354 (1890) °. Gelechia bosquella Riley, Smith’s List Lp. Bor-Am. 100 sp. 5829 (1891) *. Gelechia costi- punctella Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1891 519, 545 sp. 75 (1892)°. Gelechia bosquella Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 75 sp. 46 (1897) °. Gelechia basquella Busck Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 512 sp. 5729 (1902) *: Pr. US. Nat. Mus. 25 853, 864-5 (1903)"; Krft. Smith’s Check List Lp. Bor-Am. 1]1 sp. 6282 (1908). Gelechia bosquella Wism. Ent. Mo. Mag. 39 260 (1903) ®. | Hab. AMERICA, N-C-I. United States !~>**-"—Arzantic States *°—DiIstRicT OF CoLumBia™: @ Cassia chamaecrista (A. Busck) "—Kenrucxy "—Missouri *—lowa"!—- Kansas "—Texas!~? 5°"! > posquz co.2*%: Waco (G. W. Belfrage)°—Foripa : Key West (A. Busck)™. Central America—MExico: VERA cRUzZ: Cordova, V. 1908 (#. Knad ; 5832 Drnt. Det. 1908, US. Nat. Mus.): tapasco: Teapa, ILI. (H, H. Smith). West Indies *°-"—Jamaica?: ST. ANDREW: Constant Springs, 18-23. XII. 1904 (Wism.) : sr. ANN: Moneague, XI. 1891 (P. Rendall)*®, 9-20. L. 1905 (Wism.) ; Runaway Bay, 19. Il — 27. III. 1905 (Wism.)—Porto Rico *%**"—St. Croix: 23. IV. (W. von Hedemann)°—Sr. Tuomas: 10. IV. (F. Gudmann)* "—Grenaba*: Balthazar, 250 ft., 5-10. IV. (H. H. Smith)—On board Valhalla, R.Y.S. (after leavirg West Indies), 1. V~. 1904 (Mf. J. Nicoll).
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2. Gelechia phalacra, sp. n.
Antennae blackish, not annulate. Pulp: cream-white, the median joint with an even brush beneath ; terminal joint tipped with fuscous. Head cream-coloured, with long white scales meeting over the vertex. 'horax cream-coloured, tegulae dark fuscous. Forewings with straight margins and lanceolate
_ apex; dark fuscous, a slender streak of pale cream-colour from the base along the margin to the flexus ; a small costal spot, at the commencement of the cilia, preceded by a larger dorsal spot, both pale cream- colour ; a minute spot of the same on the cell, about the middle of the wing, is preceded by another at the apex, and others, along the termen, are followed by black scales; a similar spot lies on the fold at about its middle; cilia dark fuscous. Hvp.al.9 mm. Hindwings pale greyish cinereous ; cilia slightly tinged
with fuscous. Abdomen greyish cinereous, tinged with fuscous. Legs fuscous, with pale cream-coloured annulations.
ype & (35653) Mus, Wism. BM. [PT (35654) US. Nat. Mus.] Hab. Mexico: sonora: 1883 (A. K. Morrison). Two specimens.
Most nearly allied to donatella Wkr., but the pale spots are smaller and the terminal joint of the palpi is slightly longer and more shaded.
3. Gelechia lacticaput, sp. n.
Antennae dark brown, cream-colour‘at the base to one-fifth of their length, with some creamy speckling near their apex. Palpi cream-colour, the median joint somewhat thickened, the terminal joint with two slight brown annulations. Head and Thorax cream-colour, the latter with a dark brown’ patch posteriorly. Forewings dark brown, with a very narrow snow-white basal patch extending across the wing, an oblique snow-white costal patch at one-fourth reaching to the fold and projecting outward on the cell, a minute white oblique costal streak at the commencement of the costal cilia, and a large snow-white semicircular tornal patch extending through the terminal cilia and sparsely sprinkled with brownish scales; cilia at the apex dark brown. Hep. al.15 mm. Hindwings pale purplish grey; cilia with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen grey. Legs creamy ; tarsi banded and speckled externally with dark brown.
Type 3 (65682) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (65683) US. Nat. Mus.]
Hab. Mexico: GUERRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII-IX. (H. H. Smith). Two specimens.
A conspicuous and distinct species.
4. Gelechia cerussata, sp.n. (Tab. II. fig. 18.)
Antennae fuscous, annulate with pale cream-ochreous. Palpi pale cream-ochreous; the median joint moderately thickened, mottled with fuscous on the outer side and beneath; terminal joint with two fuscous annulations. Head and Thorax pale