Introduction 



This paper completes a 25-year study of the New 

 World moths of the subfamily Phycitinae. It is based 

 chiefly on the collections in the United States National 

 Museum and the Hulst collection, formerly at Rutgers 

 University, supplemented by material from the Cornell 

 and Canadian national collections and specimens — 

 mostly tropical American — from the British Museum, 

 the Janse collection, and the collections of several South 

 American lepidopterists. 



Recognized and included in the classification are 194 

 genera, 619 species, and 21 subspecies (local races). Of 

 these, 60 genera, 81 species, and 8 races are described 

 as new. The new species and races represent only a 

 fraction of the undescribed material examined. The 

 remainder consists mostly of females, chiefly from trop- 

 ical America and without authentically associated males 

 or host plants. Their description would have added 

 nothing to om- scientific knowledge and the additional 

 names would have been only a nuisance to other workers. 

 Already too many names have been given such material. 



Acknowledgments 



A work of this kind could not be carried through 

 without generous assistance from other entomologists. 

 To each of them I owe a debt of gratitude: To Carl 

 Muesebeck, Chief of the Division of Insect Investi- 

 gation of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant 

 Quarantine, for his support and encouragement at all 

 stages of the project; toB.B.Pepper,State Entomologist 

 of New Jersey, and John B. Schmitt for permission to 

 examine the genitaUa of the Hulst types and for their 

 courtesies to me at Rutgers University; to J. Bourgogne 

 of the Muse.imi d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, for the 

 privilege of studying the genitalia of the Ragonot 

 types of American species; to N. D. Riley and to 

 W. H. T. Tams for the loan of unidentified tropical 

 American Phycitinae from the British Museum (Natural 

 History) and to Tams especially for photographs of 

 many types and their genitalia ; to Martin Herring of the 

 Zoologisches Aluseum der Universitat, Berlin, for the 

 loan of Ragonot types; to W. T. M. Forbes, Department 

 of Entomology, Cornell University, for the loan of his 

 extensive collections from Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is- 

 lands, and Surinam; to J. McDunnough and T. N. Free- 

 man, Canadian National Museum, Ottawa, for the loan 

 of Canadian specimens ; to A. J. T. Janse of the Transvaal 

 Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, for the loan of South 

 American Phycitinae from his collection and for much 

 valuable information; to A. da Costa-Lima, Escola 

 Nacional de Agronomia, Universidad Rural, Distrito 

 Federal, Brazil, for the loan of Brazilian specimens; to 



Frank Morton Jones for a gift of Phycitinae collected at 

 Martha's Vineyard, Mass. ; to John A. Comstock for a 

 loan of southern California specimens ; to my colleagues 

 at the U. S. National Museum — to J. F. Gates Clarke, 

 for extensive notes on the phycitid types in the Museums 

 of Paris, London, Oxford, and Berlin, and to Hahn 

 Capps, for assistance in the tedious business of slide 

 preparations. 



My greatest debt is to the artists of the Bureau of 

 Entomology and Plant Quarantine for the drawings ac- 

 companying this paper. Where genitalia are used in in- 

 sect classification verbal descriptions are not enough. 

 Figures must accompany and supplement them to give 

 the reader a true picture of structural characters. The 

 drawings in this paper were begun in 1930 by Eleanor 

 A. Carlin and continued by her untU October 30, 1940, 

 when she retired from the Bureau. From that time the 

 drawings were made by Sara H. De Bord, who has made 

 the majority of the drawings here published. Her con- 

 tribution was of especial value because she was not only 

 a capable artist but a trained entomologist as well, and 

 her interest in the paper and her devotion to her share 

 in it was so complete that she worked well on into her 

 last illness (she was retired on disability August 12, 

 1948, and died March 12, 1950). Since her death some 

 drawings were made by Arthur Cushman and Addie 

 Egbert, and the former did most of the assembling of 

 the plates. The drawings were aU made imder my 

 supervision and for any inaccuracies in them I am alone 

 responsible. 



The indices were prepared by Mrs. Marguerite W. 

 Poole. 



Abbreviation of references 



To conserve space and eliminate useless repetition, 

 titles to certain publications frequently cited are here 

 abbreviated as follows: 



The Ragonot "Monographic des Phycitidae et des 

 GaUeriidae," published as vol. 7 (1893) and vol. 8 

 (1901, completed by Hampson) of the Romanofif 

 "Memoires sur les Lepidop teres," is cited as "Mono- 

 graph, pt. 1," or "Monograph, pt. 2." 



Ragonot's "Diagnoses of North American Phycitidae 

 and GaUeriidae," 1887, is cited as "N. Amer. Phyciti- 

 dae," and his "Nouveau Genera et Especes de Phyci- 

 tidae et GaUeriidae," 1888, as "Nouv. Gen." 



Walker's "List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous 

 Insects in the Collections of the British Museiun," 

 1854-66, is cited as "List." 



Hulst's "The Phycitidae of North America," pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the American Entomologi- 



