NORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTTNAE 63 

 34. LASPEYRESIA INGENS, new species 

 (Fig. 161) 



Similar to toreuta and pipemiia but with different genitalia and 

 distribution; larger than the former. 



Palpus sordid whitish; apical joint fuscous beneath. Head sor- 

 did white shaded with fuscous. Fore wing ashy brown, under 

 magnification showing the scales beyond base dark brown tipped 

 with sordid white; basal area glossy; from costa just before middle 

 to mid dorsum a narrow, slightly angulate metallic bar edged in- 

 wardly and outwardly with black; a similar, somcAvhat more angu- 

 late bar from costa beyond middle to tornus, broken between veins 

 6 and 8; another similar bar extending along termen to just below 

 apex, thence curving upward and inward to a white costal spot near 

 apex; between this and the preceeding bar two obscure white costal 

 marks terminating in metallic droplets; extreme terminal margin 

 black; cilia leaden fuscous. Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia paler 

 with a dark basal band ; veins 3 and 4 short stalked. 



Female genitalia of type figured. Male genitalia as in inijeraiia; 

 but neck of harpe considerably more (nearly twice as much) ex- 

 tended and with an irregular rounded projection from the arch; 

 cucullus more irregular in outline, slightly concave on lower margin 

 and below apex; adeoeagus a third longer. 



Alar expanse. — 17-20 mm. 



Type. — In collection Barnes. 



Paratype. — Cat. No. 28022, U.S.N.M. Also in American Museum 

 and collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — St. Petersburg, Fla. 



Described from female type, one male and two female paratypes 

 all from the type locality. 



35. LASPEYRESIA PIPERANA (Kearfott) 



(Figs. 163, 333) 



Cydia piperana Kearfott, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, p. 55. 

 Carpocapsa piperana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 

 Amer., no 7274, 1917. 



Very similar to toreuta Grote; but with different genitalia and 

 limited to the western (Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast) States, 

 where it is a species of considerable economic importance. The larvae 

 feed in pine cones. The favorite food plant seems to be P. ponderosa. 

 The species has the same life cycle and feeds and flies with Hedulia 

 injectiva, with which it also seems to hybridize (see p. 66). 



