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348. Lipographis fenestrella (Packard) 



Figures 31, 407, 896 



Pempelia fenestrella Packard, Ann. New York Lye. Nat. Hiat., 

 vol. 10, p. 259, 1873. 



Nephopteryx fenestrella (Packard) Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. 

 Surv. Terr., p. 697, 1878. 



Lipographis humilis Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 11, 1887: 

 Monograph, pt. 1, p. 563, 1893.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. 

 Amer., p. 167, 1890. (New synonymy.) 



Lipographis fenestrella (Packard) Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, 

 p. 10, 1887; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 564, 1893.— Hulst, Phy- 

 citidae of N. Amer. p. 166, 1890. — McDunnough, Check 

 list, No. 6272, 1939. 



Forewing ash gray, dusted with white and shaded 

 with brownish ocherous; the transverse lines narrow, 

 white; antemedial line oblique, nearly straight, bordered 

 inwardly by a broad brownish ocherous band marked 

 by black dots or streaklets on vein lb and upper and 

 lower veins of cell, followed outwardly by two or three 

 similar black dots; white dusting along lower vein of 

 cell, median part of vein lb and along some of the veins 

 preceding the subterminal line; subterminal line parallel 

 to termen, very slightly indented at veins 6 and lb, 

 bordered outwardly by a broad brownish ocherous band 

 (the latter interrupted by blackish streaklets on the 

 veins) and from costa by short, faint, narrow, inner and 

 outer, blackish bordering lines; along termen a narrow 

 dusting of white; terminal dots more or less confluent, 

 individually variable, forming sometimes a straight, 

 sometimes a scalloped, black line; discal dots separated, 

 small, blackish; usually a brownish ocherous shade 

 along median area of lower fold. Hind wing dull white 

 with a faint, smoky tint towards apex and termen; a fine 

 blackish line along terminal margin; the veins not 

 appreciably darkened. Alar expanse, 19.5-24 mm. 



Male genitalia with aedeagus decidedly bulged from 

 shortly beyond base; penis armed with a comb of 5 

 stout, curved spines of a graduating length. Female 

 genitalia with bm-sa greatly reduced and but slightly 

 longer than ductus bursae; the latter appreciably 

 broader than the bursa. 



Type locality: California (Jenestrella, in MCZ; hii- 

 tnilis, in Paris Mus.) . 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: California, "Middle California," Palo 

 Alto (May), San Diego (Apr., May, June, July, Aug., 

 Oct.), San Francisco. 



The type of Ragonot's humilis is merely a small, 

 rather dark male of fenestrella with identical genitalia. 

 In any considerable series oi Jenestrella the palpal differ- 

 ences cited by Ragonot can be observed. They are 

 indeed more apparent than real and more due to pro- 

 portionate differences in the sizes of the individual 

 specimens and to differing positions of the palps. In 

 our latest checklists humilis is listed as a subspecies or 

 variety of fenestrella. It is not even that. 



349. Lipographis leoninella (Packard) 



Pempelia leoninella Packard, Ann. New York Lye. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 10, p. 259, 1873. 

 Nephopteryx leoninella (Packard) Grote, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. 



Surv. Terr., vol. 4, p. 697, 1878. 



Lipographis leoninella (Packard) Ragonot, Ent. Amer., vol. 5, 



p. 115, 1889; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 565, 1893.— McDunnough 



Check list. No. 6273, 1939. 

 Lipographis fenestrella leoninella (Packard) Hulst, Phycitidae of 



N. Amer., p. 167, 1890. 

 Pyla pallidella Dyar, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 12, p. 107, 



1903. — Barnes and McDunnough, Contributions, vol. 3, p. 



199, 1916 (make synonym of leoninella). 



Forewing similar in maculation to that of fenestrella 

 except: General color more ocherous than gray, the gray 

 shading limited to the median area between the trans- 

 verse lino; basal area of wing pale ocherous; the 

 inner border of the antemedial and outer border of the 

 subterminal lines yellow; lower fold between the trans- 

 verse lines pale ocherous ; no appreciable black strealdng 

 on the veins of outer area; discal spot at lower outer 

 angle of ceU larger, more conspicuous. Hind wing paler, 

 with a faint ocherous tint towards apex and termen. 

 Alar expanse, 21-24 mm. 



Male and female genitalia like those of fenestrella. 



Type localities: California (leoninella, in MCZ); 

 Salt Lake, Utah (pallidella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: California, "Mid- 

 dle Calif.," Olancha (Inyo County, June), Palo Alto 

 (May), Sonoma County (May); Utah, Richfield (Aug.), 

 Salt Lake, Stockton (July), Vineyard (June, July). 

 Canada: Manitoba, Cartwright (Aug.). 



Hulst treated leoninella as a variety of fenestrella, and 

 probably correctly. There is nothing to separate the 

 two except coloration. However, as nothing is known 

 about their biology, it seems the better part of wisdom 

 to keep the two names apart. Larval characters and 

 habits and hosts may indicate separate species or at 

 least distinct races. 



350. Lipographis truncatella (Wright), new combination 



FiQOEES 408, 898 



Hypochalcia truncatella Wright, Ent. News, vol. 27, p. 25, 1916. — 

 McDunnough, Check list, No. 6276, 1939. 



Forewing a duU, pale, brownish ocherous, dusted with 

 white and a fine peppering of black scales, making the 

 general color an ashy gi"ay with a strong suffusion of the 

 ground color, the latter most pronounced in basal area 

 and in lower half of median area; antemedial line faint, 

 without any appreciable inner border, its outer border 

 indicated by black dots on costa, upper and lower veins 

 of cell, and on vein lb; subterminal line distinct, with a 

 narrow, faint, but distinguishable and continuous inner, 

 black, bordering line. Hind wing pale gray, very faintly 

 tinted with ocherous toward base and shading into a 

 smoky hue towards apex and termen; a strong narrow 

 dark shade along termen. Alar expanse, 22-25 mm. 



Male genitaha distinguished chiefly by its much 

 slenderer aedeagus, narrowing at apex, and the single, 

 very short, thornlike, curved cornutus on penis. Dif- 

 ferences also in the shape of the sclerotization of the 

 eighth segment tergite of abdomen are shown in the 

 figuire. Female genitalia figured from a San Diego 

 specimen in the National Collection (W. S. Wright, 

 June 23, 1911). Bursa narrowly elongate; ductus bur- 



