EESTRICTION OF THE GENUS GELECHIA BUSCK 581 



Hind wings broader than the fore wings, with veins 3 and 4 connate, 

 5 cubital, 6 and 7 approximate at base, diverging outwardly; termen 

 but verj^ slightly sinuated below apex. 



Male genitalia with a very large hood-shaped uncus and a very large 

 hook-shaped gnathos; harpe simple, flattened, oval, with a single 

 strong spine on the middle of sacculus; aedeagus short, stumpy, with 

 an incision a little below the blunt apex, entrance hole for penis at 

 base, not lateral. 



Female genitalia with ductus short; bursa very large; signa two 

 large, curved plates covered with short spines. 



The genus, to which at present only one species can be referred, is 

 correlated with and close to Pectinophora Busck and feeds like this 

 in the fruit of malvaceous plants, Hibkcus. It possesses no antennal 

 pecten. 



Genotype, GelecMa catalinella Busck.^° 



AMERICAN SPECIES OF EPILECHIA 



catalinella (Busck). New synonym: tehuacana (Busck). 

 14. FACULTA, new genus 



Platf: 62, Figukk 20 ; Plate 69, Figure 53 



Second joint of palpus with well-developed, rough, furrowed brush 

 on under side, larger at base than at tip ; terminal joint nearly as long 

 as second, smooth, acutely pointed. 



Fore wing with vein 2 well before end of cell ; veins 3, 4, and 5 equi- 

 distant, approximateh^ from end of cell; 6 nearer stalk of 7 and 8. 

 Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate, 5 cubital, 6 and 7 separate, 

 nearly parallel. 



Male genitalia with uncus a short pointed hook; gnathos flattened, 

 tonguelike, pointed; harpe simple, short, pointed, bent forward; vin- 

 culum large, Avith very large posterior process rounded at tip ; aedeagus 

 short, cylindrical, with long, branched, leaflike process at apex; 

 entrance hole for penis at base, slightly lateral. 



Female genitalia witli short and wide, sclerotized ductus; bursa very 

 large, irregidar in outline, upper part armored with numerous long 

 spines close together forming an irregular circle, a single shorter and 

 stouter spine lying separate from the rest; signum large, with four 

 long, curved arms, the two longer cylindrical and pointed, the two 

 shorter flattened and obtuse, from a small base, extending outside 

 the wall of the bursa. 



Genotype, GeUchia fnatrgyleUa Busck,^^ the only North American 

 species at present known to belong here. 



•» Journ. New York Bnt Soc, vol. 15, p. l.'^G. Ifl07. 

 « Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 8, p. 91, 1906. 



