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Part of the difficulty in understanding the American species of 

 Bondia is due to the lack of associated material, particularly in those 

 forms where only one sex is known. After this inadequacy has been 

 remedied, it may be possible to re-evaluate the genus. 



Key to the American Species of Bondia 



la. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 stalked from cell (fig. 37), rarely connate. 



2a. Forewings unicolorous, black (fig. 21). . . . . B. fuscata, new species 

 2b. Forewings lighter in color, grayish to fuscous, not unicolorous, with a 

 whitish discal spot usually distinct as well as a dark transverse band 

 at base of wing. 



3a. Female with lateral thickenings of lamella postvaginalis con- 

 tinuous with median lobe and not projecting posteriorally 



(fig. 104) B. fidelis 



3b. Lateral thickenings of lamella postvaginalis largely separate from 

 median lobe and projecting beyond it (fig. 107). 



Bondia species no. 2 

 lb. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 separate (fig. 36). 



2a. Forewings with a distinct, contrasting pattern of dark and whitish to 

 grayish scales. 

 3a. Outer third of forewing fuscous, distinctly set off from broad 



whitish to gray median band (fig. 16) B. comonana 



3b. Outer third of forewing not darker than rest of wing (fig. 17); 

 median band of white absent; a concentric ring of fuscous 



scales present near center of cell B. crescentella 



2b. Forewings with relatively uniform maculation; markings when present 

 usually indistinct, consisting of a number of small, scattered patches 

 of dark scales. 

 3a. Ground color of forewings grayish to medium fuscous. 



4a. Male with outer lobes of valvae relatively short and 



robust (fig. 70) B. spicata, new species 



4b. Male with outer lobes of valvae elongate and slender (fig. 



69) B. shastana, new species 



3b. Forewings dark fuscous, nearly black (fig. 25). 



Bondia species no. 1 



Bondia comonana (Kearfott) 



Figures 1-2, 16, 36, 44-48, 64, 83, 101, 117; Map 6 



Caiposina comonana Kearfott, 1907a, Trans. American Ent. Soc, vol. 33, no. 1, 

 p. 87. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check List of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, p. 180 (no. 7557). — Meyrick, 1922, Gen. Insect., fasc. 179, 

 p. 7 (synonym of Carposina euryleuca Meyrick). — McDunnough, 1939, Mem. 

 S. California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, no. 1, p. 61 (no. 7628).— Klots, 1942, Bull. 

 American Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 79, art. 6, p. 416. — Essig, 1958, Insects and 

 Mites of Western North America, p. 741. 



Bondia comonana (Kearfott). — Keifer, 1943, Bull. Dept. Agric. California, vol. 

 32, no. 4, p. 258. 



Carposina euryleuca Meyrick, 1912b, Ent. Monthly Mag., 2nd series, vol. 23 



(vol. 48), no. 266 (no. 573), p. 35. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check 



List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, p. 180 (no. 7557) (synonym of 



Carposina comonana Kearfott). — Meyrick, 1922, Gen. Insect., fasc. 179, 



313-145 O— 68 4 



