REVISION OF MOTHS OF CARPOSINIDAE 35 



absence of vein 6, the connate condition of 3 and 4, and the distal 

 origin of 2 which arises near 3. In addition, the male genitalia of 

 Carposina and Meridarchis exhibit several basic differences described 

 below. 



Carposina {Epipremna) dominicae, new species 



Figures 11-12, 31, 62, 80, 98, 114; Map 5 



Adult (figs. 11-12). — Wing expanse: cf , 14-15 mm.; 9 14-16 mm. 



Head: Whitish. Antennae whitish at base, becoming grayish to 

 pale fuscous along middle of shaft, then whitish again at apex; sensory 

 hairs of male 5-6 X diameter of shaft in length; those of female about 

 0.5 X. Labial palpus in male with basal third of second segment 

 fuscous, remainder of segment and all of third whitish; female with 

 basal third and most of ventral surface of second segment fuscous, 

 remainder of segment and all of third tawny to whitish. 



Thorax: Whitish to pale brown; venter mostly whitish. Pro- and 

 mesothoracic legs whitish to pale gray, apices of tibial and tarsal 

 segments faintly tufted with whitish to tawny scales. Forewings Ught 

 brown, irregularly mottled with dark brown and fuscous; typically 

 four or five fuscous spots of varying widths distributed along costa; 

 basal spot of series the broadest, situated just below middle of costa; 

 apex of discal cell with either one or two small but prominent fuscous 

 tufts of raised scales; marginal fringe grayish to pale brown, faintly 

 irrorated with dusky white. Hind wings grayish, outer third shghtly 

 darker. 



Abdomen : Whitish to tawny above, slightly darker beneath with a 

 greater suffusion of pale fuscous. 



Male genitalia (fig. 62). — Uncus reduced, consisting of a simple 

 rounded lobe, indistinctly separated tegumen, with a transverse row 

 of several elongate setae arising near base. Tegumen a relatively 

 broad dorsal arch. Gnathos, divided, very prominent and stout, 

 nearly as long as valvae, with a dense cluster of elongate spines 

 extending from the base of each element to beyond its apex. Transtilla 

 mostly membranous across middle, expanding laterally to form a 

 small rectangular sclerite; lateral digitate processes very short, 

 approximately 3 X as long as broad; setose. Valvae relatively simple, 

 without ampulla; broad at base, becoming strongly constricted near 

 middle, then enlarging into a densely spinulose, evenly rounded 

 cucullus. Juxta broad, irregularly bilobed and constricted at middle. 

 Vinculum V-shaped, narrow; saccus moderately developed, indistinctly 

 set off from vinculum. Aedeagus with apical half enlarged, strongly 

 asymmetrical, curved slightly toward midline, bearing a dense, 

 longitudinal cluster of more than 50 spines; approximately half of 

 apical area membranous; basal half narrow, rodlike. 



