CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 55 



Types.— U.S.N. M. No. 56830, female. 



Remarks. — Described from three specimens, a perfect female and two 

 imperfect males, the latter, not designated as paratypes, in all probability 

 representing the same species, but without knowledge of the food plant 

 and habits the evidence is not conclusive. The three specimens are from 

 Prescott, Ariz., the males collected by H. Dyar, August 20, 1917, and the 

 female from the Barnes collection, dated July 1-7. 



Venation and structures of the genitalia indicate a relationship nearest 

 to C. tccta, from which the male is readily distinguished by the much 

 broader margins on the primaries and the female by the wide, yellow edge 

 on metathorax and the broad, yellow bands on abdominal segments 2, 4, 

 and 6. 



CARMENTA QUERCI (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 20, Figures 115, 116 



Aegeria querci Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 2, p. 98, 1882. 



Aegeria querctis Hy. Edwards, Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 224, 1888. — Beutenmuller, 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 172, 1892. 

 Sesia querci Packard, 5th Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., p. 217, 1890. — Beutenmuller, 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 141, 1896; vol. 9, p. 220, 1897; Mem. 



Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 301, pi. 31^ fig. 15 (male), 1901. 

 Podosesia comes Heinrich, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, p. 79, 1920. — McDun- 



NOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of 



America, pt. 2, No. 8770, 1939. 

 Synanthedon querci McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8736, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae black, short, strongly clavate to tips, pectinations aris- 

 ing from brown bases. Labial palpus with a rough brush, black and w^hite 

 mixed. Head black, shiny blue-black on top, face white. Collar pale yel- 

 low or wliite above, black at the sides and beneath. Thorax black with 

 steel-blue or coppery reflections ; patagia tipped with paJe yellow at pos- 

 terior end and metathorax tufted at the sides and transversely edged with 

 very pale yellow ; a pale-yellow patch at wing base on the side. Abdomen 

 black, lustrous steel blue, or coppery, with a very narrow band on seg- 

 ments 2 and 3, a \try broad one on segment 4 encircling the body, and very 

 narrow ones on the last two segments; anal tuft black, edged with pale 

 yellow above. Legs black, femora white beneath, posterior tibiae tufted at 

 the spurs, white; tarsi sordid white, first joint dusted with black. Fore- 

 wing transparent, costa and very narrow margin violaceous-black, slig'htly 

 shaded with golden yellow inwardly; a very slight yellow suflFusion be- 

 tween the veins at outer margin ; discal mark straight, very narrow, golden 

 yellow, edged with black at inner junction with costa ; underside mostly 

 yellow. Hindwing transparent with very narrow violaceous margins and 

 yellow costa, above and beneath ; fringes short, sordid black. 



Female. — Larger and stouter than the male ; forewing with slightly 

 broader yellow suffusions between the veins at outer margin; abdominal 



