Mar.i.i92i Lepidoptera Likely to Be Confused with Pink Bollworm 819 



Habitat. — Brownsville, Tex. (More, Barber, Heinrich). 



Food plant. — Fruits of Crataegus. 



Type. — Cat. No. 23742, United States National Museum. 



This species is very close to Holcocera modcstella Clemens, to which it 

 would run in Dietz's tables. 1 It may eventually prove to be that species, 

 but in the absence of an authentic male of H. modestella from the type 

 locality it is better to risk a possible synonym than to make a doubtful 

 determination. I have seen no specimens of Clemens's species. The 

 male genitalia here figured fix the concept of H. confamulella and enable 

 its ready identification. 



Five moths (male type and four male and female paratypes) were 

 reared April 10 to 21, 191 9, from fruits of Crataegus rather heavily 

 infested by larvae of Crocidosema plebeiana Zeller. The larvae of Holcocera 

 confamulella were not noted. 



FAMILY ETHMIIDAE 

 ETHMIA DELLIELLA (FERNALD) 



Psecadia delliella Fernald, 1891, in Canad. Ent., v. 23, p. 29. 

 Babaiaxa delliella Busck, 1903, in Dyar, List North Amer. Lep., no. 5935. 

 Ethtnia delliella Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check List Lep. Bor. Amer., 

 no. 6645. 



One moth reared April 30, 191 9, from Wissadida lozani heavily in- 

 fested by a stem -boring aegeriid (Zenodoxus palmi Neumoegen). Material 

 collected at Brownsville, Tex., by E. h. Diven, March 28, 191 9. Larva 

 and habits not noted. 



ETHMIA BITTENELLA (BUSCK) 



Tamarrha bittenella Busck, 1906, in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 30, p. 730. 

 Ethmia bittenella Meyrick, 1914, Lep. Cat., pars. 19, p. 28. 



Two pupae collected by Diven in galleries in stems of Wissadula lozani, 

 Brownsville, Tex., April 1, 191 9. Moth issued April 9, 191 9. 



The larvae were not noted. The caterpillars of this family are, however, 

 to be distinguished from the others having three setae on the prespiracular 

 shield of prothorax and IV and V of abdomen approximate by the 

 presence of one or more secondary hairs on the body, usually on the 

 abdominal segments in the region of the prolegs. The prolegs them- 

 selves are long and slender as in the Pterophoridae. On abdominal 

 segment 9, seta I is higher than II. 



1 Dietz, Win. G. revision of the blasiobasidae of xorih America. In Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 

 v. 36, no. i, p. 24-33. 1910- 



