CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 69 



brownish black. Legs yellow, posterior tibiae and tarsi purplish brown. 

 Forewing opaque, purplish black and lustrous golden between the veins 

 before outer margin ; fringes brownish ; underside streaked with golden 

 yellow. Hindwing transparent, margins narrow, violaceous-brown. 



Female. — Not known. 



Expanse : 14 mm. 



Distribution. — Eastern Texas. 



Type. — Male. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass. Paratype in the American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — This species is known by two males only, labeled Texas, 

 locality and date omitted. They were collected by J. Ball, 1880, most likely 

 in the vicinity of Dallas, eastern Texas, his home city. The genitaba have 

 not been examined. The insect should prove to be a root borer in com- 

 posite plants. 



CARMENTA ALBOCILIATA (Engelhardt) 



Plate 21, Figures 123, 124 



Syiianthedon albociliata Engelhardt, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 20, p. 215, 

 1925.— McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptcra ol Canada and the United 

 Slates of America, pt. 2, No. 8710, 1939. 



ilfa/t'.— Antennae strong, glossy black. Labial palpus white, black above 

 and on third joint. Head black, a strong brush on top mixed black and 

 white. Collar narrow, sordid white. Thorax purplish black, patagia 

 inwardly edged with white, metathorax with white tufts at the sides, and 

 some white scales at the wing base beneath. Abdomen slender, purplish 

 black, segments 2, 4. 6, and 7 very faintly edged with white, these markings 

 not always recognizable; segments 4, 5, and 6 beneath wholly shiny white; 

 anal tuft long, narrowly fan-shaped, black above, white at base beneath. 

 Coxae and trochanters of forelegs shiny white, black on inner sides ; pos- 

 terior tibiae rough-haired, black and white, tarsi black and white mixed. 

 Forewing transparent, clear areas with a white sheen ; broad costa, narrow 

 outer and inner margins, and larger discal mark, deep black ; a suffusion 

 of dark scales between veins 7, 8, and 9 at apex and costa ; fringes dark 

 at apex, white at termen ; underside heavily shaded white. Hindwing 

 transparent with fainter shiny white reflections, discal mark and inner 

 veins white, outer margin narrow, dull black, fringes contrastingly white. 



Female. — More robust. Thorax contrastingly marked with white on 

 patagia. Abdomen with posterior half of segment 4 yellowish white, the 

 band extending to the side and partly beneath ; anal tuft short, rounded at 

 tip, wholly violaceous-black. Posterior legs wholly purplish and bronzy 

 black. Forewing heavily and broadly scaled at costa and margins, viola- 

 ceous-black; much reduced clear areas with a white sheen. Hindwing 

 transparent, more broadly margined with black ; fringes on both f orewings 

 and hindwings brownish or dull black. Otherwise like the male. 



