NO. 3660 MICROLEPIDOPTERA, XVII—CLARKE HD 
Described from the female holotype (6 Jan. 1948, Leary), 299 and 
one o’ paratypes; o’, same locality as holotype (1.1V.47, Chapman) ; 
9, “Mexico” (5.IV.54, Baker and Allen); 9, San Luis Potosi (23.1V.47, 
Chapman). 
Food plant: “Orchid plants.” 
Carolella asthenia, new species 
Figure 29; PLats 3 (ria. 6) 
Alar expanse 12 mm. 
Labial palpus shining white on inner side, ocherous white on outer ~ 
side. Antenna pale brown; scape white. Head white. Thorax white; 
tegula pale gray anteriorly. Forewing ground color creamy white; basal 
half of costa grayish fuscous edged with clay color on inner margin; in 
apical third of costa three small grayish-fuscous spots; on basal third 
of dorsum a fuscous blotch confluent with a clay-colored, outwardly 
oblique blotch that extends into middle of cell; at the end of a small 
fuscous dot; apical third lightly strigulated with pale ochraceous buff; 
extreme apex grayish fuscous; underside suffused fuscous; cilia gray, 
irrorate with fuscous. Hindwing very pale grayish fuscous; cilia light 
gray with slightly, darker basal band. Foreleg ocherous with light 
fuscous suffusion on outer side of femur and tibia; midleg similar to 
foreleg; tarsus fuscous annulated; hindleg ocherous white. 
Male genitalia slide JFGC no. 11616. Harpe broad basally, unorna- 
mented; cucullus rounded. Transtilla lightly sclerotized laterally with 
a long bluntly pointed median process. Socii long, slender, digitate, 
Figure 29.—Carolella asthenia, new species: a, ventral view of male genitalia with aedeagus 
removed; b, aedeagus. 
