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Flint (USNM); 1.5 mi. N.W. of, 1500 feet, 2 9, Apr. 3, 1965, coll. 

 D. R. Davis (USNM); 2 mi. N.W. of, 1400 feet, 4 c^, 34 9, Apr. 

 13-June 5, 1965, coll. D. R. Davis (USNM). Described from a total 

 of 9 males and 44 females. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distribution (map 5) . — This species is known only from Dominica 

 of the Lesser Antilles, where it commonly occurs in the wetter and 

 more heavily forested central area of the island at elevations from 

 1400 to 2400 feet. 



Discussion. — Several features of the male and female genitalia 

 and wing venation distinguish this species from all other members of 

 the genus. The absence of a signum in the female and the stalking 

 of 8 + 9 in the primaries are not unique considered separately, but 

 are of particular significance when associated. 



Carposina dominicae was most commonly encountered by the author 

 in pure stands of rain forest above 1400 feet. It is probably significant 

 that the species was never collected in the heavily cut, replanted 

 areas at low^er elevations, as exist at the Clarke Hall Estate, even 

 though such locations were rather thoroughly sampled by various 

 members of the Bredin-Archboid-Smithsonian Biological Survey. 



Subgenus Hypopremna, new subgenus 



Type-species. — Carposina bullata Meyxick, 1913. 



Adult. — Forewings (fig. 33) with vein 10 originating distinctly 

 closer to 1 1 than 9 ; all veins arising separate from discal cell except 3 

 and 4 which are stalked for approximately half their length. Hind- 

 wings w4th 6 faintly present; 3 and 4 normally connate, sometimes 

 stalked for a short distance with fusion never more than one-sixth 

 the length of 4; discal cell shortened, extending less than half the 

 length of wung; 2 arising from outer fourth of cell. 



Female genitalia. — Ovipositor moderately long and slender; 

 posterior apophyses approximately 1.5 X length of anterior pair. 

 Antrum and ductus bursae of relative uniform diameter, with heavily 

 thickened, reticulate walls extending entire length to corpus, thence 

 terminating abruptly. Corpus bursae completely membranous, en- 

 larged and rounded, with a pair of furcate signa. 



Discussion. — Hypopremna, which literally means "lower stalk," 

 may be separated from the other subgenera of Carposina by the 

 stalking of veins 3 and 4 of the forewing and the separate condition 

 of all other veins. 



Carposina (Hypopremna) bullata Meyrick 



Figures 14, 33, 81, 99; Map 4 



Carposina bullata Meyrick, 1913, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 98; 

 1922, Gen. Insect., fasc. 179, p. 7.— Clarke, 1963, Catalogue of the type 



