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INGA CRETACEA (Zeller), new combination 



Plate 21, Figures 130, 130a ; Plate 39, Figube 210 



Cryptolechia cretacea Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 23, p. 2-13, 1873. — 

 Walsingham, Ti'ans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, p. 176, 1882. — Riley, in 

 Smith, List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5218, 1891. — Busck, in 

 Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5846, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6387, 1903. — Busck, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 195, 1908.— Babnks and McDunnough, Check list 

 of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6417, 1917. 



Machimia cretacea (Zeller) Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fa.sc. 

 180, p. 83, 1922.— McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 

 and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8388, 

 1939. 



Labial palpus, head, and fore wing white to sordid whitish more 

 or less sprinkled with small brown scales. Basal two-fifths of second 

 segment of labial palpus brown outwardly. Eyes narrowly edged 

 with brown in front. Antenna brown. Base of costa, first and 

 second discal spots, and an outwardly curved subterminal line of 

 spots brown. Hind wing and cilia brownish. Legs whitish strongly 

 overlaid with brown. Abdomen whitish somewhat suffused dorsally 

 with light brown and with more or less brown scaling ventrally. 



Male genitalia. — Cucullus rounded, narrow ; clasper gently curved, 

 slightly dilated distally, heavily clothed with stout spines (the latter 

 extending inwardly down to sacculus) and extending well beyond 

 costa. Anellus a broad, strongly sclerotized plate with a deep 

 V-shaped median excavation; from posterodorsal margin a broad, 

 spatulate process; lateral lobes weakly developed, moderately hairy. 

 Aedeagus long, slightly curved, pointed; vesica armed with a long, 

 strongly sclerotized bar. Transtilla with long, digitate, hairy, lateral 

 lobes. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate membranous. Ostium large, 

 round. Ductus bursae with a narrow sclerotized plate ventrally just 

 before ostium. Inception of ductus seminalis well before ostium. 

 Bursa copulatrix oval, with few minute spicules on inner surface; 

 signum well developed. 



Alar expanse, 14-16 mm. 



Type. — In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Type locality. — Texas. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — Southern United States. 



United States records 



Arizona: Palmerlee, 4 $ $ (no data or collector). 

 Kansas: Onaga, $ (Crevecoeur, collector). 



North Carolina: Southern Pines, 15 $ S , '^0 2 $ (July 15 to August 15). 

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