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9. LASPEYRESIA GARACANA (Kearfott) 



(Figs. 143, 313) 



Enarmonia garacana Kearfott, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, p. 66. 

 Enarmonia septicola Meyeick, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 48, 1912, p. 34. 

 Laspeyresia garacana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 7249, 1917. — Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. 



Sta., 1924, p. 394. 



Close to larwiana Walsingliam ; differing in genitalia and the ab- 

 sence of black markings from ocelloid patch. 



Veins 3 and 4 of hind wing stalked. 



Male and female genitalia figured from paratj^pes in National 

 Collection and American Museum from the tj^pe localities. 



Aedoeagus slender, tapering; cornuti a half dozen very small, 

 thin attached spines placed in a row. 



Distribution. — Texas, Illinois, Ontario. 



Alar expanse. — 14-15 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Chicago, 111. 



10. LASPEYRESIA MEMBROSA. new species 

 (Figs. 150, 322) 



Antenna grayish, dusted with black toward base. Palpus sordid 

 white; third joint rather long, porrected and exposed. Face and 

 head whitish, latter dusted with gray toward sides. Thorax gray- 

 ish fuscous dusted with whitish scales. Fore wing with termen 

 straight ; veins 3, 4, and 5 not approximate at termen ; color grayish 

 fuscous with white markings and dusting, making the general color 

 a rather ashy gray; 14 to 16 paired, evenly spaced, very fine and 

 obscure white costal geminations; on mid dorsum two obscure gem- 

 inate white marks; some whitish dusting, continuing from extremi- 

 ties of these to costa, forms an obscure pale antemedian fascia 

 defining a dark basal patch, outwardly angulate and somewhat ex- 

 cavate below middle; post median area grayish fuscous, appearing 

 to the naked eye as an indistinct dark fascia; ocelloid patch and 

 apical area dusted with whitish; ocellus defined by two vertical me- 

 tallic bars enclosing two or three abbreviated black dashes; from 

 outer white costal geminations two obscure leaden lines extending, 

 one to inner vertical bar of ocellus, the other to termen below apex ; 

 at apex a round dark spot ; cilia leaden gray with a black basal line 

 peppered with white. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous; cilia paler 

 with a dark basal band ; veins 3 and 4 connate. 



Male genitalia figured from paratype in American Museum from 

 Brownsville, Tex.; female from type in National Collection. The 

 aedoeagus of the male is very long, slender and sharply bent near 



