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p. 7. — McDunnough, 1939, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, no. 1, 

 p. 64 (no. 7628) (synonym of Carposina comonana Kearfott). 



Adult (fig. 16). — Wing expanse: cf , 14-19 mm.; 9, 13-18 mm. 



Head: Fuscous, heavily irrorated with white to tawny; base of 

 each scale typically tawny, middle portion fuscous, apex white. An- 

 tennae with basal 2-3 segments fuscous, lightly irrorated with grayish 

 white; each segment along basal half of shaft apicaUy ringed with 

 tawny, becoming entirely pale fuscous on outer half. Labial palpi 

 fuscous, faintly irrorated with white; inner surfaces somewhat paler, 

 particularly at base of second segment; apex of third segment grayish 

 white; female palpi elongate, porrect, second segment approximately 

 1.5 X length of that of male; male palpi relatively short, subascending. 



Thorax: Fuscous, irrorated with white; ventral surfaces whitish, 

 irrorated with fuscous. Pro- and mesothoracic legs almost entirely 

 fuscous; apices of tibial and tarsal segments ringed with grajdsh 

 white; metathoracic legs pale fuscous, heavily irrorated with tawny to 

 dull white, much paler on dorsal surface; tibial and tarsal segments 

 with tawny to whitish apices. Forewings with a narrow, transverse 

 band of fuscous at base and a much broader fuscous band covering 

 outer third of wing; both bands slightly irrorated with whitish gray; 

 area between dark bands mostly whitish with irregular concentrations 

 of fuscous, particularly along costa and hind margin, tending to be 

 most whitish at wing base near basal dark band; six or seven raised 

 scale tufts usually present, scattered over broad, whitish median area; 

 terminal fringe fuscous, irrorated with white. Hindwings pale fuscous, 

 slightly darker toward apex; veins 3 and 4 separate. 



Abdomen: Pale fuscous above, pale gray beneath. 



Male genitalia (fig. 64). — Uncus reduced, partially membranous. 

 Tegumen broadlj^ rounded. Vinculum broad, extending as an elongate 

 sheath along dorsum of aedeagus. Valvae very broad at base, outer 

 half deeply divided into three distinct lobes of various form; dorsal 

 lobe (cucullus) the longest in length and somewhat rounded at apex; 

 median lobe the shortest, arising from base of cucullus, with apex 

 somewhat mucronate; ventral lobe (sacculus) slender, subacute. 

 Juxta triangular, about as broad as long. Vinculum Y-shaped, broad; 

 saccus prominent; elongate. Aedeagus extremely slender, elongate, 

 nearly doubling the genitalia in length; a series of two to five stout, 

 elongate spines of varying lengths arranged internally along upper 

 third of shaft to apex; junction of ejaculatory duct above middle near 

 apical third. 



Female genitalia (figs. 83, 101). — Ovipositor moderately elongate; 

 posterior apophyses approximately 1.5 X length of anterior pair. 

 Lamella ante vaginalis quadrate, lightly sclerotized; posterior margin 



