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13. Genus CARCINA Hubner 



Plate 1, Figure 9 ; Plate 5, Figure 36 ; Plate 11, Figures 71, 71a ; 

 Plate 14, Figure 88 



Carcina Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterliiige, p. 410, 1826. — Rebel, 

 in Staudinger and Bebel, Catalog der Lepidoptereu des palaearctischen 

 Faunengebietes, vol. 2, p. 175, 1901. — Waxsingham, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep- 

 idoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4, p. 126, 1912.— Busck, Can. Ent., vol. 53, p. 277, 

 1921. — BL.VCKM0KE, Report of the Provincial (British Columbia) Museum 

 of Natural History for the year 1920, pp. 23, 31, 1921.— Meyrick, in Wytsman, 

 Genera insectorum, fasc, ISO, p. 159, 1922. — Fleichee, Mem. Dept. Agr. 

 India (Ent. Ser.), vol. 11, p. 40, 1929. — Gaede, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum 

 catalogus, pt. 92, p. 251, 1939. (Genotype: Pyralis qiiercana Fabricius, Sys- 

 tema entomologiae, p. 652, 1775.) 



Phiialocera Stephens, Illustrations of British entomology, Haustellata, vol. 

 4, p. 192, 1834. (Genotype: Pyralis quercana Farbricius, Systema ento- 

 mologiae, p. 652, 1775.) 



Head with appressed scales ; tongue developed ; antenna longer than 

 fore wing, thick, simple; basal segment with pecten. Labial palpus 

 long, recurved ; second segment thickened with appressed scales ; ter- 

 minal segment shorter than second. 



Fore wing broad, termen oblique, straight, 12 veins; 2 from well 

 before angle, 3 and 4 stalked, 5 and 6 parallel, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 

 termen, 11 from before middle. 



Hind wing nearly as wide as fore wing ; 8 veins ; 3 and 4 stalked ; 

 6 and 7 divergent toward apex. 



Male ge7iitalia. — Cucullus divided; clasper absent. Anellus with 

 lateral processes. Vesica armed. Gnathos and uncus well developed, 

 the former unspined. 



Female genitalia. — Ductus bursae membranous. Inception of 

 ductus seminalis adjacent to ostium. Signum present. 



Larva. — Characters essentially as in Agonopterix : ninth abdominal 

 segment with setae I and II well separated; seta VI not on same pin- 

 aculum with IV and V, remote from VII. Setal group VII bisetose 

 on first and seventh, unisetose on eighth and ninth abdominal seg- 

 ments. Ocelli normal. Submentum without pit. 



Pupa. — Smooth except for a fringe of hair on dorso- and latero- 

 caudal margins of seventh abdominal segment. Prothoracic femora 

 and labial palpi not exposed. Cremaster present but greatly reduced. 



Remarhs. — This genus may be distinguished from the other genera 

 of North American oecophorids by the antenna which exceeds the 

 length of the fore wing. 



The presence of a short (vestigial) cremaster in the pupa will dis- 

 tinguish Carcina from Machimia. 



