REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 177 



Labial palpus ochreous; second segment with a dark reddish-fus- 

 cous spot near base externally and with the brush suffused with red 

 and irrorated with reddish fuscous; third segment suffused with red 

 anteriorly and with poorly defined reddish-fuscous subbasal and 

 supramedial annuli. Antenna light reddish fuscous, narrowly and 

 faintly annulated with fuscous; basal segment ochreous beneath. 

 Face shining whitish ochreous. Head, thorax, and fore wing light 

 ochreous suffused and mottled with red. Below antenna, in front, 

 a vertical reddish-fuscous patch ; from base of costa, following fold, 

 a reddish-fuscous streak to about basal fourth ; in anal angle a small 

 reddish-fuscous patch; both of these dark markings mixed with black 

 scales. Along costa and inner margin and in apical third numerous 

 white scales; all the veins are more or less indicated by reddish fus- 

 cous and black mixed ; discal spot at end of cell faintly indicated by 

 a few red scales; cilia fuscous, strongly suffused with red and with 

 a blackish-fuscous subbasal band. Hind wing fuscous, lighter 

 basally; cilia red with a fuscous subbasal band. Legs ochreous suf- 

 fused with red and mottled with reddish fuscous. Abdomen ochre- 

 ous suffused with fuscous dorsally and with a blackish-fuscous line 

 on each side ventrally. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe gradually tapering to the rounded cucullus ; 

 clasper absent, sacculus broadly folded, with a large, elongate, trun- 

 cated process from its base ; this elongate process is more or less armed 

 with spines over most of its length; at the distal end the spines are 

 numerous. Anellus a sclerotized plate ; broad anteriorly, narrow pos- 

 teriorly; anterior edge with a shallow median cleft; posterior edge 

 convex. Vinculum produced anteriorly. Aedeagus long, nearly 

 straight, dilated at proximal end ; vesica armed with 7-10 stout cornuti. 

 Transtilla membranous, with small hairy lobes. Socii long, narrow, 

 hairy flaps. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate broad, moderately sclerotized. 

 Ostium transverse, elliptical, situated at anterior margin of the genital 

 plate. Ductus bursae sclerotized, slightly curved and dilated in pos- 

 terior half, without protuberance; membranous in anterior half; in- 

 ception of ductus seminalis just anterior to ostium. Bursa copulatrix 

 large with a small, but well developed signum near anterior end. 



Alar expanse, 21-25 mm. 



Type. — In United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Pecos, N. Mex. 



Food plant. — Cicuta occidentalis Greene. 



Distribution. — ^^Vestern United States. 



