74 BULLETIN 190, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



CARMENTA SUFFUSATA, new species 



Plate 22, Figure 130 



Male. — Antennae brown-black. Labial palpus sordid \^'bite, third joint 

 black. Head brown-black, a strong tuft on top black and white mixed. 

 Collar black and white. Thorax brown-black, glossy, the sides tufted with 

 black and white mixed. Abdomen deep brown, glossy ; segment 4 with a 

 white band encircling the body, segments 5, 6, 7 white beneath, not above ; 

 anal tuft narrowly fan-shaped, brownish black. Coxae and trochanters 

 of forelegs shiny white, posterior tibiae and tarsi brown-black, with a 

 violaceous sheen and a white tuft at anterior spurs of tibiae. Forewing 

 opaque, brownish, outer half sprinkled with ash-gray scales ; discal mark 

 in a concolorous blending ; underside grayish brown. Hindwing opaque, 

 brown-black, except for a small clear basal area between veins Ic and 2 ; 

 fringes pale brown ; underside similar. 



Female. — Like the male except forewing with a denser sprinkling of 

 ash-gray scales on outer half and hindwing entirely opaque. 



Expanse : Male 16 mm., female 18 mm. 



Distribution. — Oklahoma and Kansas. 



Type.— U.S.N. M. No. 56835, male. 



Remarks. — While quite distinct in general appearance, the venation and 

 the structure of the male genitalia closely associate this species with 

 C. ogalala. Only three rather worn examples are at hand. The type from 

 McAlester, Pittsburg County, Okla., is labeled "bred from root," April 19 

 (C. E. Hood). The name of the plant is lacking. The paratypes, two 

 females, come from Wichita National Forest, Comanche, Okla., July 14, 

 1931 (R. H. Painter), and from Sharon Springs, Wallace County, Kans. 

 (A. B.Klots). 



CARMENTA VERECUNDA (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 22, Figures 131, 132 



Aegeria vcrecunda Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 190, 1881. — Beutenmuller, 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 173, 1892. 

 Sesia verecunda Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 142, 1896; 



Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 312, pi. 32, fig. 26, 1901. 

 Carmenta nigra Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 95, 1894; 



vol. 8, p. 147, 1896. 

 Sesia florissantella Cockerell, Can. Ent., vol. 40, p. 330, 1908. 

 Synanthcdon vcrecunda McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 



and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8760, 1939. 

 Synanthcdon florissantella McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 



and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8700, 1939. 

 Synanthcdon nigra McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and 



the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8759, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae rather stout, black, tuft at tips white. Labial palpus 

 white, with long, black hair at outer side, third joint white and black mixed. 

 Head black with a strong brush, which is black slightly mixed with orange, 



