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uniformly brown except for scattering of white along basal fourth. 

 Labial palpus pale brown with heavy suffusion of fuscous on lateral 

 surface; inner surface mostly pale tan to dull white. 



Thorax: Whitish to light brown with irregular scattering of 

 brownish to fuscous scales; ventral surfaces dull white. Pro- and 

 mesothoracic legs fuscous on ventral surfaces and dull white on 

 dorsal surfaces; mesothoracic tibia with broad ring of white around 

 middle; metathoracic leg pale fuscous to light brown; apices of tibial 

 and tarsal segments all faintly ringed with white. Forewings pale 

 gray to pale brown, irregularly mottled with darker areas of brown and 

 fuscous; costa with six or seven fuscous patches, broadest at base of 

 wing and becoming progressively narrower toward apex, each patch 

 being interrupted by a narrow band of grayish white; apex of discal 

 cell with an irregular concentration of fuscous to black scales, marginal 

 fringe brownish, heavily irrorated with white. Hindwings gray, 

 becoming darker at outer third. 



Abdomen : Light brown above and below. 



Female genitalia (figs. 77, 94). — Ovipositor relatively short; pos- 

 terior apophysis approximately L5 X the length of anterior pair. 

 Antrum broad and elongate, with walls heavily thickened and papil- 

 lose; posterior margin of lamella antevaginalis complex, deeply ex- 

 cavated and bilobed, both lobes doubly thickened by inward folding 

 of posterior margin; a prominent V-shaped fold typically present near 

 center of lamella. Walls of ductus bursae mostly thickened; reticulate 

 pattern arranged in four longitudinal bands that extend the length 

 of ductus and converge near corpus. Corpus bursae abruptly enlarged, 

 membranous, with a pair of deeply forked signa. Ductus seminalis 

 connected to caudal end of ductus bursae near termination of antrum. 



HoLOTYPE. — Devil's Den State Park, Washington County, Ark., 

 9, July 21, 1966, coll. R. W. Hodges, USNM 69650; in the United 

 States National Museum. 



Paratypes. — MISSOURI: St. Louis Co.: St. Louis, 1 9, Aug. 30, 1963, 

 coll. H. McElhose (USNM). ohio: Hamilton Co.: Cincinnati, 1 9, 

 Aug. 28, 1902, coll. A. F. Braun (AFB). Described from a total of 

 three females. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distribution (map 3). — Presently known only from the south- 

 eastern border of the Interior Plains from northeastern Arkansas to 

 southeastern Ohio. 



Discussion. — Although this species at present is represented by 

 only three female specimens, it is quite distinct from aU other 

 Carposinidae and may be easily recognized utilizing certain characters 

 of the female. Superficially, Carposina simulator most closely resem- 

 bles C. jernaldana and C. biloba but may be distinguished from the 



