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DEPRESSARIA MACULATELLA Busck 



Plate 34, Figuees I91-191b ; Plate 47, Figure 275 



Depressaria maculateUa Bubck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, p. 90, 1908. — 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 200, 1908.— Baknes and McDtrNNOUQH, 

 Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6481, 1917. — Meteick, 

 in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 172, 1922. — Forbes, Cornell 

 Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat., Memoir 68, p. 242, 1923.— McDunnough, Check list 

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

 Microlepidoptera), No. 8407, 1939. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum cata- 

 logus, pt. 92, p. 287, 1939. 



Labial palpus white; second segment irrorated with fuscous and 

 black and suffused with fuscous in the brush; third segment with 

 subbasal annulus and apex blackish fuscous. Antenna brown, broadly 

 annulated with dull ochreous-white ; basal segment ochreous-white 

 beneath. Head, thorax, and ground color of fore wing ochreous- 

 white suffused with brown and irrorated and streaked with blackish 

 fuscous, with much ochreous scaling; at extreme base, from costa to 

 inner angle a transverse blackish fuscous line interrupted at middle 

 by the white ground color; at basal third a poorly defined white 

 discal spot preceded by some blackish fuscous scales; at the end of 

 cell a similar spot; between the two a conspicuous longitudinal, black- 

 ish-fuscous streak; veins 9 and 10 strongly marked with blackish 

 fuscous ; the bases of the other veins less conspicuously so ; on costa, 

 about middle, a blackish-fuscous spot; from apical third of costa, 

 around termen to inner margin, a series of blackish-fuscous spots; 

 cilia concolorous, white, with fuscous suffusion and irrorations. Hind 

 wing whitish fuscous, darker apically; cilia white with fuscous sub- 

 basal band. Legs whitish ochreous suffused and mottled with fus- 

 cous except at joints ; metatarsus of fore leg white. Abdomen ochre- 

 ous, sparsely irrorated with blackish fuscous beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broad, without process from base of sacculus 

 or costal margin ; sparsely clothed with long hairs ; cucuUus narrowly 

 rounded; clasper wide, flattened, extending beyond ventral edge of 

 harpe, terminating in one long and one short point; sacculus short, 

 broadly folded. Anellus a flat plate, constricted posteriorly; sides 

 strongly convex ; posterior edge deeply concave ; anterior edge pro- 

 duced laterally. Vinculum rounded. Transtilla roughly rectangu- 

 lar; without hairy lobes. Aedeagus short, stout, with a slight twist; 

 vesica armed with small spinules. Tegumen and socii greatly produced 

 posteriorly forming an elongated hood. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate broad, moderately sclerotizecl with 

 a row of about half a dozen hairs posteriorly ; ostium narrow, elongate, 

 bordered on either side by a raised edge. Ductus bursae a long mem- 



