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DEPRESSARIA ALIENELLA Busck 



Plate 35, Figubks 195, 195a ; Plate 48, Figuee 282 



Depressaria alienella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 765, 1904. — Ander- 

 son, Catalogue of British Columbia Lepidoptera, No. 1094, 1904. — Busck, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 200, 1908. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6473, 1917. — Meykick, in 

 Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 171, 1922. — McDunnough, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America (Part. 2, 

 Microlepidoptera ) , No. 8393, 1939. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum cata- 

 logus, pt. 92, p. 273, 1939. 



Depressaria emcritella Walsingham (not Stainton), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1881, p. 381. — Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 5261, 1891.— Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, p. 746, 1902 ; in Dyar, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5884, 1903. 



Depressaria emeriteUa alienella (Busck) Forbes, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., 

 Memoir 68, p. 243, 1923. 



Labial palpus white ; second segment irrorated exteriorly, and suf- 

 fused in the brush, with reddish fuscous and with a distinct blackish- 

 fuscous spot near base exteriorly ; third segment with a broad blackish- 

 fuscous supramedial annulus. Head and thorax white ; thorax sparsely 

 irrorated with reddish fuscous anteriorly ; tegula dark reddish fuscous. 

 Fore wing light fuscous strongly overlaid with red or reddish fuscous, 

 irrorated with cinereous and fuscous and streaked with blackish 

 fuscous; at the end of cell a white discal spot preceded and followed 

 with fuscous; around termen a poorly defined row of fuscous spots. 

 Legs white, suffused and irrorated with blackish fuscous except at 

 joints. Abdomen pale fuscous above, ochreous-white beneath, irro- 

 rated with fuscous. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe moderately clothed with long fine hairs, 

 clasper long, pointed, not projecting beyond ventral edge of harpe, 

 armed with numerous fine spines; sacculus narrowly folded, without 

 basal process ; cucullus bluntly pointed. Anellus broadly oval ; lateral 

 edge not strongly produced. Vinculum bluntly pointed. Transtilla 

 a broad sclerotized band with hairy lobes moderately well developed. 

 Aedeagus long, slender, gently curved. Tegmnen truncated; socii 

 small, hairy lobes. 



Female genitalia. — Ostium slitlike transverse, with shallow median 

 cleft on anterior edge ; situated near the anterior edge of the genital 

 plate. Duetus bursae membranous, straight; inception of the ductus 

 seminalis well before ostium and anterior to the sclerotized portion 

 of the ductus bursae. Bursa copulatrix large with well-developed 

 toothed sig-num. 



