62 BULLETIN 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Genitalia figured from type (female) and paratype (male) in 

 National Collection. 



In addition to the type and paratypes in the National Collection 

 there is a paratype from Biloxi, Miss., in the Cornell University col- 

 lection ; also a female of what I take to be a possible western variety 

 from Patrick's Creek, Calif, (reared Sept. 14, 1916, under Hopk. U. 

 S. No. 14289'' from Phius atenuata, J. E. Patterson). This last is 

 in the National Collection. In pattern and genitalia it agrees with 

 typical erotella except that the ocelloid patch of fore wing is more 

 heavily streaked with black. I doubt if it will prove sufficiently dis- 

 tinct to deserve a varietal name. 



Al<ir expanse. — 9-10 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Type locality. — Hyattsville, Md. 



Food plant. — Pinus tasda. 



33. LASPEYRESIA TOREUTA (Grote) 

 (Fig. 159) 



PentJiina toreuta Grote, BuU. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1873, p. 92. 



Gydia toreuta Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5298, 1903. 



Carpocapsa toreuta Keakfott, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 362. — 

 Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7272, 

 1917.~FoRBES, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 396. 



A moderately sized species quite different in pattern and color 

 from everj'thing in the genus except ingens and piperana. From 

 these two it is readily separable on genitalia (particularly those of 

 the female) and distribution. The true toreuta is limited to the 

 eastern United States above Florida. It is somewhat smaller than 

 piperana and ingens and has smaller male genitalia and proportion- 

 ately smaller aedoeagus; the neck of the harpe is more incurvate than 

 that of piperana and not so long as that of ingens. Hind wing with 

 veins 3 and 4 connate or very short stalked. 



Female genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection 

 from Falls Church, Virginia (reared Aug. 13, 1919 under Hopk. U. 

 S. No. 12033 ^ from larva feeding in cones of P. virginiaTia, Wm. Mid- 

 diet on). 



Distribution. — Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Col- 

 umbia, Pennsylvania. 



Alar expanse. — 13-15 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Type locality. — Pennsylvania. 



Food plant. — Pinus virginiana (larvae feeding in tlie cones). 



