CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERIIDAE 87 



CONOPIA RICHARDSI, new species 



Plate 22, Figure 135 



Male. — Antennae violaceous black-buff before the tips. Labial palpus 

 buff at base, second joint dull yellow, terminal joint yellow mixed with 

 black. Head black with metallic reflections, face glossy white. Collar pale 

 yellow, slightly mixed with black above. Thorax black-violaceous, patagia 

 narrowly touched with pale yellow inwardly ; underside of thorax very 

 pale, glossy yellow. Abdomen slender, lustrous blue-black, segments not 

 banded above; beneath segments 2, 3, 4, and 5 glossy buff, segments 1, 6, 

 and 7 black; anal tuft long, narrow, the center a thin pencil extending 

 beyond the sides, blue-black slightly intermixed with orange at base 

 beneath. Legs pale yellow, sparsely shaded with violaceous; posterior 

 tibiae very rough, golden yellow ; tarsi smooth, yellow, shaded with black. 

 Forewing transparent; costa, veins, and large oblong discal mark glossy 

 black; outer margin broadly shaded, black on the veins and orange between 

 the veins, as wide as the transparent area before the discal mark; fringes 

 dull black; underside with costa and veins touched with orange and the 

 discal mark narrowly orange at the sides. Hindwing transparent, nar- 

 rowly margined with violaceous-black; fringes sordid black above and 

 beneath. 



Female. — Similar to male. Antennae with basal half violaceous-black, 

 outer half buff or pale yellow before the black tips. Forewing with outer 

 margin broader and brighter orange. Abdomen more robust, segment 4 

 with a conspicuous yellow band, venter of all segments shiny buft' or pale 

 yellow ; anal tuft short, rounded, orange. 



Expanse: Male 18 mm., female 20 mm. 



Distribution. — Georgia, Virginia, Ohio. 



Type. — U.S.N.M. No. 56837, male. Allotype female and two male 

 and two female paratypes also in the United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — Holotype, allotype, and one male and one female paratype 

 were collected on flowers in moist meadows along a river in Clarke County, 

 Ga., June 15, 1938 {A. Glenn Richards). One paratype male, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, June 20, 1909 (Annette Braun). One paratype female, Falls 

 Church, Va., June 28 (Nathan Banks). 



The food plant is not known. 



Genus SYNANTHEDON Hubner 



Synanihcdon Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, p. 129, 1819. (Geno- 

 type, Sphinx oestriformis Esper, synonym of Sphinx vespiformis Linnaeus.) 



Tongue long, spiraled. Antennae of male robust, bipectinate ; pectina- 

 tion longest at bases, shortening toward the strongly dilated, tufted tips. 

 Female antennae simple. Labial palpus with second joint thickened with 

 rough scales, terminal joint short, smooth. Forewing with 12 veins, 10 

 and 1 1 separate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex ; hindwing with veins 3 and 4 



