XOKTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESHNAE AND OLlETHREUTINAE 00 



outer half of costa ; ocelloid patch as in ca/adana; cilia leaded fuscous 

 somewhat shaded with paler scaling at tornus and with a black basal 

 line bordering termen. Hind wing with dorsal margin concave; 

 blackish brown, much darker than fore wing and (in male) with a 

 large patch of jet black appressed sex scaling on disk: no sex scaling 

 on inner margin ; hair tuft on lower median vein and at base of vein 

 1", snow white: cilia shining snow white, without dark basal line; 

 veins 3 and 4 connate. Underside of fore and hind wings very dark 

 brown ; a large patch of appressed black scales covering cell of fore 

 wing in male. 



Male genitalia of type figured: aedoeagus (omitted from figure) 

 moderately stout, tapering; cornuti very minute, scarcely distin- 

 guishable. 



Al<ir expanse. — 16 mm. 



Type.—Q^i. No. 28021, U.S.N.M 



Type locality. — Moutain Lake, Va. 



Described from male type (''June 1-^21, 1907,"' A. F. Braun). 



A striking species easily recognized by its dark brown hind wing, 

 snow-white hind wing cilia, peculiar male sex scaling and character- 

 istic genitalia. 



19. LASPEYRESIA CARYANA (Fitch) 



(Figs. 146, 323) 



Ephippiphora caryana Fitch, Third Rep. Ins. New York, 1856, p. 459. 

 Grapholitha caryae Shimeh?, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 1869, p. 394. 

 Enarmonia caryana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5268, 



1903. — Barnes and McDonnough, Cliecli List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 



7207, 1917.— Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, 



p. 392. 



A rather common insect in the eastern United States. The larvae 

 feed in the husks and fruits of hickory and pecan nuts and some- 

 times do considerable damage. The moth resembles that of candana 

 but is easily distinguished. The hind wing is whitish on upper 

 basal half; and in the male there is considerable black scaling in the 

 area occupied by the anal veins, on the dorsum of the first three 

 abdominal segments and on the under surface of both fore and hind 

 wings ; the thick white male sex scaling on inner margin of the hind 

 wing is also pronounced. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate. 



Genitalia figured from reared specimens in National Collection 

 from District of Columbia ("' 1035 P, 16-July-94," male) and Cadet, 

 Mo. ("467603, July, 2-90," female). Aedoeagus slender, tapering 

 and forked (that is, having a lateral spur, as in some specimens of 

 the genus Melissopus) ; cornuti not distinguishable. 



Distnhution. — New Jersey. Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, 

 Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Missouri. 



Alur expanse. — 9-15 mm. 



