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15. Hiud tibia of male swollen with scale tuf tings (15) Phaecasiophora. 



Hind tibia of male smooth scaled 16. 



16. Bursa of female with two signa (17) Hedia. 



Bursa of female with single signum or none " 17. 



17. Hind wing of male with projecting basal lobe (16) Exartema. 



Hind wing of male without projecting basal lobe (IS) Olethreutes. 



1. Genus EPISIMUS Walsingham 



(Figs. 21, 22, 30) 



Episimus Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1891, p. 501, 1897, p. 122. 

 Genotype. — Carpocapsa transferrana AValker (Brazil). 



Thorax smooth above ; with expansible tuft from near head below 

 base of fore wing. 



Fore wing smooth; termen concave; 12 veins, all separate; 7 to 

 termen; 7, 8, and 9 approximate at base; upper internal vein of 

 cell from between 10-11 ; 3, 4, and 5 approximate at termen ; 2 from 

 cell near i/^, straight or but very slightly bent. 



Hind wing with 8 veins ; C and 7 approximate towards base ; 3 and 

 4 connate (stalked in ti/7'ius) ; 5 closely approximate to 4 at base; 

 male without chitinoils ridge at inner margin. 



Hind tibia of male without hair pencile from base. 



Male genitalia with harpe narrowly elongate; outer surface un- 

 spined; cucullus long and narrow, finely and evenly spined, apex 

 evenly rounded; sacculus with a few long, flat, hairlike spines 

 (jSc/Sp) from base; spine cluster Spc- upon a slight projection from 

 lower margin of harpe beyond base; spine cluster jSpc^ absent. 

 Uncus developed, rather long, slender, simple. Socii broad, flexible, 

 heavily haired. Gnathos moderately chitinized, somewhat reduced 

 and terminating in a narrow, tapering, finely pointed, flat subanal 

 plate. Aedoeagus moderately long, straight; cornuti a dense cluster 

 of long slender deciduous spines. 



Female genitalia with two thornlike signa. Ductus bursae rather 

 short, with a chitinized collar at jimcture of bursa. 



A tropical American genus represented in North America by a 

 few species of West Indian or Central American origin. In addi- 

 tion to the three here treated several others common to the West 

 . Indies probably inhabit lower Florida. I have before me a badly 

 nmtilated specimen of what looks like nesiotes Walsingham, and 

 three specimens of an apparently undescribed species. They are 

 all in too poor condition, however, for definite determination. 



The genus is a very compact, clearly defined one. The genitalia 

 throughout are of a uniform type with very slight specific differ- 

 ences. The pattern (fig. 22) also is remarkably consistent and 

 tj^pical. Its striking feature is an ocelloid patch on fore wing, con- 



