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Scoparia pyraustoides, new species 



Figure 46 



Alar expanse 25-28 mm. 



Labial palpus light cinnamon buff, outer side overlaid with fuscous. 

 Head and antenna light cinnamon buff, the latter with tiny fuscous 

 spots at the ends of the segments. Thorax and ground color of fore- 

 wing light cinnamon buff; tegida fuscous at base and thorax with 

 some dark suffusion; costa with extreme base fuscous and with some 

 dark suffusion about middle; from basal quarter of costa to basal 

 third of dorsum an irregidar, indistinct, outwardly oblique fuscous 

 line followed by a fuscous spot in cell; at outer end of cell a large, 

 quadrate fuscous blotch; from outer fourth of costa an indistinct, 

 fuscous, transverse line outwardly oblique to vein 6, thence inwardly 



46 a 



Figure 46. — Scoparia pyraustoides, new species: 46, ventral view of male genitalia with left 

 harpe and aedeagus removed; 46a, aedeagus. 



oblique to dorsum slightly before tornus; this transverse line ac- 

 centuated where it crosses veins; between the outer transverse line 

 and termen some dark suffusion; cilia cinnamon buff with a narrow 

 fuscous basal line. Hindwing ocherous white, shading to cinnamon 

 buff at apex and around margin; cilia cinnamon buff with scattered 

 fuscous scales mixed. Legs whitish ocherous; femora and tibiae 

 overlaid, and tarsi spotted, with fuscous. Abdomen whitish ocherous, 

 somewhat darker beneath, and with a ventrolateral line of fuscous 

 spots. 



Male genitaha (sHde 10398): Vesica without cornuti (at least in 

 type). 



Type: Masatierra: El Yunque, 515 m. (Feb. 10, 1952). 



