NORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE HI 



produced, small, hairy, flexible. Gnathos normal, a simple band 

 with weakly chitinized subanal plate. Aedoeagus moderately long 

 and slender, straight; cornuti absent. 



Female genitalia with two signa, developed as stout triangular, 

 thorn-like disks. Ductus bursae long, looped, chitinized through- 

 out its length. 



A monotypic North American genus. 



EUMAROZIA MALACmXANA (ZeUer) 

 (Figs. 60, 194, 413) 



Grapholitha (Poccilochroma) malachitana Zelleb, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. 



Wien, vol. 25, 1S75, p. 292. 

 Olethreutes malachitana Febnald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5044, 



1903. — Walsingham, Biol. Cent. Amer. Lepid. Heter., vol. 4, 1914, 



p. 252.— FOEBES, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 457. 

 Argyroploce malachitana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer., no. 6854, 1917. 



The well-known leaf tier on persimon. A beautiful species with 

 olive green and rose lavender fore wings, not to be confused with 

 anything else. 



Male and female genitalia figured from reared specimens in Na- 

 tional Collection from Falls Church, Va. (Hopk. U. S. No. 12155^^, 

 Aug. 2, 1914, male) and Smith Point, Tex. (F. H. B. "Bottimer 

 No. 40," female). 



Distribution. — District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Lousiana, Texas, Florida, Alabama, 

 North Carolina. 



Also recorded from Central and South America. 



xilar expanse. — 11.5-16 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — Missouri. 



Food plant. — Diospyros virginiana. 



11. ZOMARIA, new genus 



(Figs. 59, 199) 



Genotype. — Penthina interruptolineana Fernald (North America). 



Thorax with posterior tuft. 



Forewing smooth; termen convex (evenly rounded) ; 12 veins, all 

 separate; 8 and 9 well separated; uper internal vein of cell from 

 between 9-10; 3, 4, and 5 not approximate at termen; 2 from cell 

 at %, slightly bent. 



Hind wing with 8 veins ; 6 and 7 approximately toward base ; 3 and 

 1 connate; 5 approximate to 4; termen evenly rounded; secondary 

 hair tuf tings in male (costal tuft, or hair pencile on base of vein la) 

 but no thickenine; at inner margin. 



