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sas, from a cocoon of the codling moth, Carpocapsa pomondla 

 Linnaeus. 



PHOROCERA TORTRICIS Coquillett. 



Plhorocera tortricis Coquillett, Revis. Tachiu., 1897, p. 103. — Nicolay, 

 Ent. News, vol. 30, 1919, p. 279.— Bbimley, Ent. News, vol. 33, 1922, 

 p. 25.— Greene, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 60, art. 10, 1922, p. 11, 

 fig. 75 (puparium). 



Neopales tortricis Johnson, Psyche, vol 23, 1916, p. 81. — Weiss, Ent. News, 

 vol. 28, 1917, p. 220.— BniTTON, Check-list Ins. Conn., 1920, p. 193. 



Front in the male 0.26 (average of three, 0.270, 0.250, 0.238) and 

 in the female 0.288 of the head width ; face and front gray pruinose, 

 the sides of the former at narrowest part one-fifth the width of 

 median depression; facialia bristly three-fifths of the way or more; 

 inner eye margins concave; eyes thickly hairy; bucca one-tenth the 

 eye-height ; palpi usually yellow, often brown and sometimes black ; 

 antennae nearly as long as face, second joint elongate, the third 

 joint in male four and one-half and in the female two and one-half 

 times the length of second; arista thickened on the basal third, the 

 penultimate joint short. Thorax thinly gra}^ pollinose, marked with 

 three broad black vittae; four dorsocentral macrochaetae ; scutellum 

 yellow, except at base, bearing four pairs of long marginal bristles. 

 Sternopleura with two bristles usually, sometimes three. Abdomen 

 black, subshining, the last three segments lightly gray pollinose on 

 the basal half, often the gray pollen of the second segment is con- 

 fined to the basal fourth; sides of first three segments sometimes red- 

 dish; discal macrochaetae absent in the male, usually present on the 

 intermediate segments of the female; abdominal hairs either erect 

 or depressed (erect in the type). Legs black; mid tibiae with two 

 bristles on the outer front side near the middle; hind tibiae evenly 

 ciliate. Wings hyaline, apical cell open, the third vein with two or 

 three bristles at its base. 



Length 6 to 9 mm. 



Redescribed from the type and numerous other specimens of both 

 sexes: Missouri (type, C. V. Riley); Michigan (Gillette); Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin; Lafayette, Indiana (Aldrich) ; Melrose High- 

 lands, Massachusetts (Webber) ; Koehler (W^alton) and Indian 

 Spring (Townsend) in New Mexico; Piano, Texas (E. S. Tucker) ; 

 Opelousas, Louisiana (Pilate). It has been reported also from Ver- 

 mont, New Jersey, and Connecticut. 



' Rearing records: from Mineola indiglnella Zeller in Missouri 

 (Riley, type) ; from a tortricid in Michigan (Gillette, paratype) ; 

 from Cacoecia cerasivorana Fitch (in Massachusetts by Webber, 

 from Vermont by Johnson) ; from Peronea minuta in New Jersey 

 (Weiss) ; from Cacoecia argyrosjyila Walker in Arkansas (Isely, un- 

 published). 



r?/pe.— Male, Cat. No. 3603, U.S.N.M. 



