CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 45 



1926 (Engelhardt) ; Decatur, 111., long series, August 8-23 (Barnes col- 

 lection). 



In addition a few odd specimens from Texas and New Mexico sug- 

 gest subspecies or geographical races, which is to be expected considering 

 the abundant representation of Solanum throughout the Western States, 

 Field investigations of this kind are laborious, and, not being of economic 

 importance, they have been neglected. 



Genus CARMENTA Hy. Edwards 



Carmenta Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 184, 1881. (Genotype, Aegeria pyralidi- 

 formis Walker.) 



Male antennae with short cilia ; female antennae simple. Tongue long, 

 spiraled. Labial palpus with a short, nearly smooth brush on second joint ; 

 terminal joint smooth, somewhat porrect. Head and thorax smooth. 

 Forewing with 12 veins (11 veins in a few species as the result of coales- 

 cence of veins 10 and 11) ; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa; 10 and 11 confluent 

 before the edge of the wing or united throughout their length. Hindwing 

 with 8 veins ; 3 and 4 stalked ; 7 and 8 concealed in costal fold. Posterior 

 tibiae nearly smooth, sometimes slightly roughened with stiff hairs at 

 spurs ; first tarsal joint not thickened, smooth. Anal tuft of the male rather 

 small, halberd- or fan-shaped. Male genitalia of the Synanthedon type; 

 vinculum long; sacculus ridge with a curved row of flat, forked, black 

 scales, terminating in characteristic and diagnostic, sharply curved row of 

 yellow scales to the edge. Aedeagus long, straight, bulbous at base. 

 Female genitalia with terminal part of ductus sclerotized ; bursa oval, with 

 signum. 



CARMENTA PYRALIDIFORMIS (Walker) 



Plate 1, Figure 5 ; Plate 5, Figures 32, 32a ; Plate 13, Figure 62 



Aegeria pyralidlformis Walker, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects In the 



collection of the British Museum, pt. 8, p. 44, 1856. — Hy. Edwards, Papilio, 



vol. 1, p. 207, 1881. 

 Trochilium pyralidiformis Morris, Synopsis of the described Lepidoptera of North 



America, pt. 1, p. 333, 1862. 

 Scsia pyralidiformis Boisduval, Histoire naturelle des insects: Species general des 



lepidopteres heteroceres, vol. 1, p. 439, 1874. — Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 310, pi. 32, fig. 18, 1901. 

 Carmenta pyralidiformis Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 184, 1881. — Kellicott^ 



Can. Ent., vol. 24, p. 46, 1892. — Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 8, p. 147, 1896. 

 Sesia nigella Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 75, 1881. 

 Carmenta nigella Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 175, 1892. 

 Synanthedon pyralidiformis McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 



and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8755, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae stout, purplish black. Labial palpus with a rough, 

 even brush, golden yellow, tip black. Head purplish black. Collar golden 



