54 BULLETIX 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL, MUSEUM 



17. LASPEYRESIA CANDANA Forbes 



(Figs. 152, 325) 



Laspeiffesia candana Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 

 1924, p. 394. 



A brownish fuscous species with a paler brownish semilustrous 

 median fascia and concolorous brown hind wings; veins 3 and 4 of 

 hind wing stalked. 



Forbes validated the Kearfott manuscript name ; but did not desig- 

 nate types. I therefore do so here, restricting them to a series of 12 

 males and 2 females from Oak Station, Pa. (May 15 to 21, F. Mar- 

 loff) which Kearfott had deposited under the name in the three col- 

 lections. 



In addition to these we have in the National Collection a male 

 from Guy's Mills, Pa. (May 13, 1915, Heinrich), and a female from 

 Cincinna'ti, Ohio ("IV-23-04," A. F. Braun). 



Genitalia figured from type in American Museum (male) and 

 paratype in National Collection (female). Aedoeagus stout; cornuti 

 two parallel rows of short fixed spines, 



Ala?' expanse. — 12-16 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Paratypes. — Cat. Xo. 28020, U.S.N.M. Also in American Museum 

 and collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Oak Station, Pa. 



I refer the species to Laspeyresia with some hesitation. In pattern 

 it is very close to nigricana, grandicula., and caryana: The male 

 genitalia are most like those of Carpocapsa pomoneUa. It also 

 shares a male character with Carpocapsa and MeJhsopus in the ap- 

 pressed pocket inclosing the median pecten on hind wing. The rough 

 sex scaling on the inner margin of the hind wing also occurs in 

 caryana and nigneana and in the species under Melissopus. Eventu- 

 ally it will probably have to have a separate generic designation; 

 but at present I do not think this is justified. 



18. LASPEYRESIA GRANDICULA, new species 

 (Fig. 320) 



Similar to candana in pattern and color of fore wing; but some- 

 what darker and lacking the fine peppering of whitish scales, and 

 with very different genitalia. 



Antenna of male nearly smooth. Palpus sordid whitish; third 

 joint dusla\ Head brown. Thorax and fore wing semilustrous fus- 

 cous brown ; an obscure angulate median fascia on fore wing, slightly 

 paler than ground color and broadest toward dorsum; pale costal 

 geminations indistinct, except four evenly spaced whitish dashes on 



