AMERICAN MOTHS OF THE SUBFAMILY PHTCITINAE 



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brown; costal edge beyond more or less reddish; ante- 

 medial line indicated only by fragments of its outer 

 border, a couple of red dots or dashes in the white area 

 and a faint, dark, gray-brown dot on lower fold of vein 

 lb; discal dots at end of cell weak, lower brown, upper 

 red ; subterminal line faint but distinguishable, not sinu- 

 ate, close to and parallel with termen, dull white. Hind 

 wing smoky white with the veins and lower fold dis- 

 tinctly darkened and a dark smoky shade along termen. 

 Alar expanse, 13-16 mm. 



Male genitalia with vinculum sharply constricted into 

 a digitate projection slightly beyond base; anellus an 

 elongate, irregularly shaped, ciu-ved plate with elongate, 

 very slender (almost threadlike) lateral lobes; penis 

 armed with a single, dense cluster of dark brown, slender 

 spines, the cluster as long or nearly as long as aedeagus. 



Female genitalia with ventral sm-face of half of bursa 

 and ductus bursae covered with a mat of closely placed, 

 pigmented granulations, the granulations extending 

 around partly to dorsal surface; signum patch (on dor- 

 sum of bursa) surrounded by a teardrop-shaped mass of 

 granulations (fig. 705a) ; genital opening simple. 



Type locality: Porto Bello, Panamd (type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: PanamA: Porto BeUo (Dec), Taboga 

 Isl. (Feb.), TabogiUa Isl. (Feb.). 



The species can be at once identified by its peculiar 

 genitalia. The female paratype has genitalia similar in 

 all but the most trifling details to those of semibrunneella 

 Ragonot, and if it is actually conspecific with the males 

 of clevelandella the latter name will fall as a variety or 

 synonym of semibrunneella. However, there is some 

 doubt that this is the case ; for we have in the National 

 Collection a series of four females from Cayuga, Guate- 

 mala, and Jalapa, Mexico, of the same size (16-17 mm.) 

 and identical color and maculation as the female para- 

 type of clevelandella, but with quite different genitaha 

 (fig. 706). Also in the collection are four other females 

 with the same color and markings and the same size as 

 the males of clevelandella (13-14 mm.) but with differ- 

 ent female genitalia. Either of these two groups of 

 specimens could be the females of Dyar's species so, for 

 obvious reasons, I am not attempting to name them or 

 to propose any synonymy. 



118. Hyalospila Bemibnmneella Ragonot 

 FiGUBE 708 



Hyalospila semibrunneella Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 12, 1888; 

 Monograph, pt. 1, p. 169, 1893. 



Color and maculation similar to those of clevelandella 

 except antemedial line more distinct. The female gen- 

 itaha agree substantially with those of the female para- 

 type of clevelandella. We shall have to wait discovery of 

 a male of semibrunneella from the type locality before 

 the status of the two supposed species can be determined. 



Type locality: "New Granada" [Colombia] (Mar. ; 

 type in Paris Mus.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Genus 28: Fundella 



[Venational division B. Forewing with veins 4-5 connate or 

 approximate at base. Hindwing with vein 3 from the stalk of 

 4-5 or closely approximate to it for some distance; cell short; 

 on male anal area folded into a pocket. Male genitalia with uncus 

 hammer-clawed (long, curved, constricted at middle and broadly 

 divided at apex); transtilla absent; sacculus of harpe not pro- 

 duced; cornutus present, a single, strong spine. Eighth abdom- 

 inal segment of male with pair of hair tufts.] 



28. Genus Fundella Zeller 



Fundella Zeller, Isis von Oken, 1848, p. 866. — Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 1, p. 210, 1893. — Janse, Journ. Ent. Soc. South 

 Africa, vol. 4, p. 163, 1941.— Heinrich, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 96, p. 105, 1945. (Type of genus: Fundella pellucena 

 Zeller.) 



Ballovia Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 44, p. 323, 1913; Ins. 

 Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 40, 1919. (Type of genus: Ballovia 

 cislipennis Dyar.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna of male weakly 

 pubescent, basal segment somewhat enlarged, shaft 

 laterally flattened and very slightly excavate at base 

 (fig. 23 le) (except on ignobilis and ahemora) and with a 

 very small blackish scale tuft in the excavation (except 

 on ignobilis); of female, slender, simple. Front of male 

 head deeply grooved to hold labial palpi; of female, 

 rounded. Labial palpus upcurved, reaching to vertex, 

 clothed with broad appressed scales; on male closely 

 appressed to face, with second segment over three times 

 as long as first and with third segment very short (about 

 one-sixth the length of second); on female with second 

 segment shorter and third about one-third the length of 

 second. Maxillary palpus minute, filiform. Forewing 

 smooth; 11 veins; vein 2 from before lower outer angle 

 of cell; 3 from the angle, approximately equidistant 

 from 2 and 4; 4 and 5 connate or approximate at base; 

 6 from below upper angle of cell, straight; 8 and 9 long 

 stalked, 9 short; 10 from the cell, parallel for some dis- 

 tance but not closely approximate to the stalk of 8-9. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from close to lower outer angle 

 of ceU ; 3 from the stalk of 4-5 or closely approximate to 

 it for some distance; 4 and 5 stalked for over half (about 

 two-thirds) their lengths; 7 and 8 closely approximate 

 beyond ceU for less than half their lengths; cell short, 

 about one-third the length of wing; discocellular vein 

 curved; on male, anal area (involving veins la and lb) 

 thickened and folded under to form a pocket enclosing 

 enlarged scales and hair tufts. Eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment of male bearing a thin, short pair of ventrolateral 

 hair tufts. 



Male genitalia with uncus long, curved, strongly scler- 

 otized, constricted at middle and broadly divided at 

 apex (hammer-clawed) ;gnathos terminating in a short, 

 stout hook or a short, broad plate {ahemora) ; transtilla 

 absent. Harpe rather short, with clasper. Vinculum 

 narrow, short. Aedeagus stout with long, stout, pro- 

 jecting, ciu-ved spine or spines at apex (except in 

 argentina) ; cornutus a single, strong spine. 



Female genitalia without signum (pellu^ens) or with 

 signum well developed and consisting of a large oval or 

 pear-shaped cluster of thomlike spines (argentina, aga- 



