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Female genitalia with two thorn-like signa. Ductus bursae short, 

 strongly chitinized and scobinate. 



As it is now defined this is not a good genus. The only two dis- 

 tinguishing characters (the thorn-like projections from harpe near 

 cucullus and the fold inclosing the pecten in hind wing of male) 

 are shared in greater or less degree by some sj^ecies of Lasyeyresia 

 which on genitalia and habitus go better with other and more nor- 

 mal Laspeyresia species than they do with pomonelhi. Indeed the 

 hind wing fold is not a good character at all for in the toreuta 

 «rroup of Laspeyresia it disappears so gradually as to leave one 

 often in doubt whether it is or is not present. I am convinced, 

 however, that some day when we loiow more of the larvae, Laspey- 

 resia will be further divided and that Garpocapsa will then apply 

 legitimately to one of the divisions. In the meantime nothing is 

 gained by suppressing a widely used name that eventually will 

 be restored. I am therefore keeping Carpocapsa and restricting 

 the genus to the type. None of the other species now included 

 goes as well with potnonella as with some typical Laspeyresia. 

 The two in our North American lists {saltitans Westwood and 

 sahastianniae Riley) I omit altogether from this paper. They are 

 Mexican insects, of whose occurrence in the United States we have 

 no authentic records. 



KBV TO THE SPECIES OF CAKI'OCAl'SA 



1. General color of fore wing and thorax, grayish fuscous; hind wing siuolvy 



fuscous (1) pomonella. 



General color of fore wing and thorax, golden ocherous ; hind wing pale 

 ocherous (2) A-ariety simpsoni. 



1. CARPOCAPSA POMONELLA (Linnaeus) 

 (Figs. 37, 169, 329) 



Phalaena Tinea pomonella Linnaf.us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, 



p. 538. 

 Carpocapsa pomonana Treitschke, Sehmet. Eur., \u\. 8, 1830, p. 161. 

 Carpocapsa pomonella Hakeis, luj. Ins., 1862, p. 484. — STAtituNGER and 



RB2JEL, Cat. Lepid., vol. 2, no. 2257, 1901.— Buscic, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Washington, vol. 5, 1903, p. 235.— Simpsox, Ent. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr., 



no. 41, 1903.— Foster, Ent. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr., no. 80, pt. 5, 1910; 



Ent. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr., no. 97, 1911.— Hammer, Ent. Bull. U. S. 



Dept. Agr., no. 115, pt. 1, 1912. — Quaintance and Geyeb, Ent. Bull. 



U. S. Dept. Agr., no. 429, 1917. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check 



List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7270, 1917. — Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell 



Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1924, p. 396. 

 Cydia pomonella Walsingham. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 130 ; 



Biol. Cent. Amer. Lepid. Heter., vol. 4, 1914, p. 259. — Febnald, in 



Dyar List, N. Amer. Lepid., no 5296, 1903. — Pierce and Metcalfe, 



Genitalia Brit. Tort., 1921, p. 82. 



