REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 221 



INGA CONCOLORELLA (Beutenniiiller), new combination 



Plate 21, Figures 129, 129a ; Plate 39, Figure 208 



Cryptolechia concolorclla Beutenmuller, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 30, 1888.— 

 Walsingham, Ins. Life, vol. 2, p. 152, 1889. — Riley, in Smith, List of 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5217, 1891. — BuscK, in Dyar, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5845, 1903.— Keari-ott, in Smith, Check list 

 of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6386, 1903.— Busck, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 195, 1908. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6419, 1917. 



MacMmia concolorella ( Beuteumiiller ) Meyrick:, in Wytsman, Genera in- 

 sectorum, fasc. 180, p. 82, 1922. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Canada and the United States of America ( Part 2, Microlepidoptera ) , No. 

 8386, 1939. 



Head, palpus, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing grayish fuscous. 

 Discal dots and an outwardly curved line of spots from two-thirds 

 of costa to two-thirds of inner margin indistinct, fuscous. Legs 

 grayish mottled with fuscous; the fore legs almost wholly overlaid by 

 the latter color. 



Male genitalia. — Cucullus broad, rounded; clasper slender basally, 

 broadly dilated, obliquely pointed and reaching well beyond costa; 

 distal surface clothed with fine spines. Anellus a broad sclerotized 

 plate with a deep, median V-shajDed excavation; from the postero- 

 dorsal edge a broad, flat process, broader distally than proximally; 

 lateral, fleshy lobes moderately well developed, hairy. Aedeagus long, 

 slender, slightly curved, bluntly pointed ; dorsal third strongly scler- 

 otized and armed with small teeth. Lateral lobes of transtilla stout, 

 hairy. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate membranous. Ostium round, 

 moderately large. Ductus bursae with a broad, sclerotized ring before 

 ostium. Inception of ductus seminalis well before ostium. Bursa 

 copulatrix sparsely and finely spiculate on inner surface. 



Alar expanse, 20-22 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Nevada. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — Southwestern United States. 



United States records 



California: San Diego, 5 9 9 (June 16- July 23). 

 Nevada: 5 (no date or collector). 



Remarks. — ^With the type male I associate the five females from 

 California. These agree well with the description and the type, 

 although the latter is somewhat more suffused. 



