NORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE 19 



Genitalia fi<?ured from paratypes in National Collection from the 

 type locality (H. G. Dyar " 833 Fla.," issued Feb. 25-26, 1900). 



Represented in the collections, as far as I know, only by the type 

 series in the National Collection. 



Alar expanse. — 7.5 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Type locality. — Florida. 



Food plant. — Schoepfia arboresccns. 



5. TALPONIA, new genus 



(Figs. 114, 286) 



Genotype. — Tlemimene plmnifnenana Busck (North America). 



Characters as in Ricula except: 



Fore wing with termen incurved below apex; 2 from cell at %. 



Hind wing with 6 and 7 separate and parallel. 



Female genitalia with two thorn-like signa. Ductus bursae long, 

 slender. Bursa copulatrix large; neck smooth. 



Monotypic. Allied to Ricula, Ethelgoda, and the tropical Balbis 

 Walsingham. In wing shape, general habitus most like Ethelgoda. 

 In genitalia (male and female) closest to Balbis. The latter, how- 

 ever, is quite distinct, having a costal hair pencile on hind wing of 

 male, strong pecten on underside of vein 1*" on fore wing and dif- 

 ferent venation : 1*= in fore wing absent and 8 weak and closely 

 approximate to cell in hind wing, partially anastomosing with 7 

 to beyond cell. 



TALPONIA PLUMMERIANA (Busck) 



(Figs. 114, 2SG) 



Hemimene plummeriana Busck, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 19, 

 1906, p. 181 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Wasliington, vol. 11, 1909, p. 99.— Barnes 

 and McDuNNOUGH, Clieck List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7259, 1917. — 

 Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 388. 



Thorax and basal half of fore wing powdery gray; outer half 

 of fore wing red brown to the naked eye, under magnification brown- 

 ish orange dusted and streaked with black and heavily marked with 

 purplish metallic bands. Hind wing brown with a narrow yellow 

 border along termen. Larva feeds in flowers of pawpaw. 



Genitalia figured from reared specimens in the National Collec- 

 tion from Plummer Island (male) and Hyattsville, Md. (female). 



Distribution. — Maryland, Ohio. There is also a specimen in 

 the National Collection from Guerrero, Mexico. 



Ala7' expanse. — 9-10 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Tyjye locality. — Plummer Island, Md. 



Food plant. — Asiminia triloba. 



