﻿MOTHS OF THE GENUS CINCIA — FIELD 319 



Comparative remarks. — This species is closest to lathyi and may be 

 distinguished from that species by the male genitalia (pi. 6, fig. 3) and 

 in the forewing bj'- the loss of the middle section of the transverse 

 yellow band below cell. 



Genus CINCIA Walker 



Cincia Walker, List of specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the 

 British Museum, vol. 2, p. 538, 539, 1854. — Morris, Synopsis of the described 

 Lepidoptera of North America, p. 310. 1862. — Hampson, Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera Plialaenae in the British Museum, vol. 2, pp. 38&-389, 1900. — 

 MoscHLER, Abh. Senckonb. naturf. Ges., vol. 16, p. 118, 1890. — Draudt, in 

 Seitz, Gross-schmettcrlinge dor Erde, vol. 6, p. 252, 1918. — Strand, in 

 Wagner, Lepidoptcrorum catalogus, pars 26, p. 733, 1922. — Gundlach, 

 Anal. Soc. Espanola Hist. Nat., vol. 20, p. 161, 1891. — Forbes, Scientific 

 survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 12, pt. 1, p. 33, 1930. 



Type. — Cincia conspersa Walker (type by single included species). 



Labial palpus and antenna as in Amplicincia. 



Venation as described for the group except that in the hind wing 

 vein 5 is always present and stalked with 4. 



Male genitalia (pi. 8, figs. 9, 11) with curved and hooklike uncus 

 terminating in a constricted and somewhat elongate point; gnathos 

 present and divided, forming two small slender and smooth arms; 

 anellus present with ventral plate (juxta) and two large separate 

 dorsal plates; vinculum triangular or rounded and longer than wide; 

 harpe without a clavus and with transtilla from costa small and tri- 

 angular; aedeagus undulate, tapered distally and ending in a single 

 elongate spur; bulbus ejaculatorius dorsally from before middle of 

 aedeagus; vesica with cornuti lacking and with numerous scobinations. 



Female genitalia (pi. 8, figs. 10, 12) with the transverse ridgelike 

 plate (anterior genital plate) on seventh sternum very weakly sclero- 

 tized and with deep lateral cupules before spiracles or transverse 

 ridgelike plate very distinct and straight, wdth shallow cupules beyond 

 either end; ostium bursae plate fused with anterior genital plate and 

 bilobed with lobes free; eighth sternum with a single small buttonlike 

 plate mesially between lobes of ostium bursae plate; bursa copulatrix 

 armed internally with a small circlet of claw or thornlike spines near 

 opening of ductus bursae; bursa copulatrix subspherical, not much 

 longer than broad and with a single denticulate platelike signum near 

 or above middle. 



Comparative remarks. — See this heading under Amplicincia. 



Included in this genus are Cincia conspersa Walker and Cincia 

 sordida (Moschler). 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OP CINCIA 



1. Males 2 



Females 3 



2. Harpe with a long upward directed clasper from inner surface near apex and 



with sacculus broadly expanded apically conspersa Walker 



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