NORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE 41 



collar white. Fore wing grayish fuscous; at extreme base a few 

 whitish scales and on mid dorsum a pair of very faint pale gray out- 

 wardly curved dashes extending upward to cell; ocelloid patch con- 

 sisting of two vertical leaden metallic bars (the outer slanting 

 inward a little and parallel to termen) inclosing a varying number 

 of fine irregular black dots or streaks upon an ocher yellow ground ; 

 subcostal area above ocelloid patch ocher yellow; from costa just 

 beyond middle a narrow metallic outwardly slanting bar, joining 

 inner vertical bar of ocellus; beyond this four pairs of very short, 

 narrow, white, geminate dashes, from the second of which extends a 

 thin metallic bar (parallel to the inner one from costa) and joining 

 outer vertical bar of ocellus; a similar, short, curved metallic line 

 from outer pair of white costal dashes; apex and terminal area 

 beyond ocellus, grayish fuscous with scale ends white; cilia leaden 

 fuscous, semimetallic. Hind wing dark smoky brown, paler toward 

 base ; cilia Avhite with a dark basal band. 



Male genitalia figured from type; female from paratype in Na- 

 tional Collection. 



Alar expanse. — 12-14 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Paratype. — Cat. No. 28015, U.S.N.M. ; also in collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Brownsville, Tex. 



Described from male type from Brownsville, Tex. (Townsend, " 19 

 June, 95 ") ; and four female paratypes from San Benito, Tex., dated 

 "Apr. 1-7," "Apr. 24-30," and " Sept. 8-15." 



Close to duodecemstriata but distinct and easily separated on color 

 and structure ; in Iwminosa the aedoeagus of the male is shorter and 

 stouter than in duodecemstriata; the large outer spines of harpe are 

 also more thickly clustered (in the photograph they do not show 

 well as most of them were broken off before the slide was made). 



The male type had been identified by Kearf ott as " Pamviene te.va- 

 nana Walsingham" and w^as in the American Museum under that 

 name. 



11. Genus LASPEYRESIA Hubner 



Laspeyresia Hubner, Verz. Schmet., 1S26, p. 381. 



Genotype. — Tortrix corollana Hubner (Europe). 

 Endopsia Guen^e, Eur. Microlepid. Index Method., 1S45, p. 48. 



Genotype. — Pyralis nigricana Stephens (Europe). 

 Cerata Stephens, List Brit. Animals, pt. 10, Lepid., 1852, p. 77. 



Genotype. — Penthina serviUana Duponchel. 



Characters as in Grajyholitha except: 



Fore wing with termen concave, straight or convex ; veins 3, 4 and 

 5 separate or slightly approximate at termen. 



