REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 231 



Protasis He2ueu:oh-Schaffeb, Systematisches Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von 

 Europa, vol. 5, p. 40, 1853. — Meyeick, in Wytsman, Genera iusectovum, fasc. 

 180, p. 105, 1922. (Genotype: Protasis punctella Costa, Fauna del regno di 

 napoli, vol. 2, pi. 4, fig. 2, 1836.) 



Head with loosely appressed scales ; tongue well developed ; antenna 

 finely to strongly ciliated, basal segment with pecten; labial palpus 

 long, porrect; second segment densely clothed with long spreading 

 scales, especially beneath; third segment short, acute. Abdomen 

 strongly spined. 



Fore wing elongate, pointed or falcate; termen very oblique; 12 

 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen; 2-5 approximated, 11 from before 

 middle. 



Hind wing ovate, as broad as fore wing; 8 veins; 3 and 4 connate, 

 6 and 7 subparallel. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe without clasper. Anellus with lateral proc- 

 esses well developed. Gnathos well developed, pointed. Uncus well 

 developed. 



Female genitalia. — Ductus bursae sclerotized for at least part of its 

 length ; inception of ductus seminalis at anterior third of ductus bursae. 

 Signum of bursa copulatrix present. 



Remarks. — At present only one recognized American species; P. 

 albastrigulella (Kearfott). 



Thema Walker (List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in 

 the collection of the British Museum, vol. 29, p. 802, 1864 ; genotype : 

 Thema hrevivitella Walker) and Phtn/ganeutis Meyrick (Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 742, 1884; genotype: Phryganeutis 

 cinerea Meyrick) have been synonymized with Pleurota Hiibner, but 

 it does not seem likely that these Australian genera are congeneric with 

 Pleurota. 



Pleurota can be distinguished from any other North American 

 oecophorid genera by the porrect labial palpus. 



PLEUROTA ALBASTRIGULELLA (Kearfott) 



Plate 20, Figures 123, 123a ; Plate 39, Figure 212 



Dorata albastrigulella Keaefott, Can. Ent., vol. 39, p. 8, 1907. 



Pleurota albastrigulella (Kearfott) Babnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6413, 1917. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopter- 

 orum catalogus, pt. 88, p. 170, 1938. — McDunnough, Check list of the 

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

 lepidoptera). No. 8389, 1939. 



Pleurota albastrigilella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 191, 1908. 



Pleurota albistrigulella Metykick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, 

 p. 107, 1922. 



