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faded; but otherwise in good condition. The female is from the 

 Fernald Collection. 



4. RICULA, new genus 



(Figs. 4, 25, 106) 



Genotype. — Lipoptycha maculana Fernald (North America). 



Thorax smooth. 



Fore wing smooth; termen convex; 12 veins all separate; 7 to 

 termen; 11 from cell slightly before middle; 10 approximate to 9; 

 upper internal vein of cell from between 10-11; 3, 4, and 5 remote 

 at termen; 2 from cell slightly beyond %, straight; no costal fold 

 in male. 



Hind wing with normal pecten; 8 veins; 6 and 7 somewhat ap- 

 proximate toward base (subparallel) ; 3 and 4 connate; inner margin 

 in male simple. 



Hind tibia of male smooth scaled. 



Male genitalia with outer surface of harpe unspined; cucullus 

 elongate, narroAv, finely and evenly spined; neck incurvation slight; 

 neck slender ; sacculus weakly haired. Tegumen a narrow chitinized 

 band. Uncus absent. Socii developed, long, fingerlike, flexible. 

 Gnathos a simple weakly chitinized band. Aedoeagus short, stout, 

 straight ; cornuti a dense cluster of long deciduous spines. 



Abdomen of male with lateral hair tufts from sternite of eighth 

 segment. 



Female genitalia with single signum developed as a thornlike 

 spine. Ductus bursae very short and broad. Bursa copulatrix nar- 

 row; scobinate at neck. 



A monotypic genus presumably of tropical origin. Related to 

 Talponia., from which it differs chiefly in the more approximate 

 condition of veins 6 and 7 of hind wing, the convexity of the termen 

 of fore wing, and the absence of one signum from the bursa of the 

 female. 



RICULA MACULANA (Fernald) 



(Figs. 4, 25, 106, 284) 



Lipoptycha maculana Fernald, Journ. New Yorls. Ent. Soc, vol. 9, 1901, p. 



51 ; in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5293, 1903. 

 Laspeyresia maculana Busck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, 1906, p. 



173. — Baenbs and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 



7211, 1917. 



A very small dark fuscous species with several long narrow ob- 

 lique orange costal streaks on fore wing, a large triangular white 

 spot on mid dorsum and an ocelloid patch consisting of a single ver- 

 tical metallic bar outwardly margined by 3 or 4 black-centered 

 orange spots. 



