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traces of an upper discal dot at end of cell) ; from apex 

 a short oblique, reddish shade more or less peppered 

 with fuscous; faint tracings of red on the outer extrem- 

 ities of the veins and, on darker examples, a reddish 

 blush over the entire outer area; subterminal line in- 

 dicated by a narrow, oblique, twice-indented, red or 

 reddish fuscous line rather close to terminal margin. 

 Hind wings shiny, translucent white with a fine brown 

 line along termen; the veins not appreciably darkened. 

 Alar expanse, 16-22 mm. 



Male genitalia with erect clasper of harpe short, 

 rounded, knoblike. Anellus with lateral lobes short, 

 stubby. Comutus shaped like that of senfa but appre- 

 ciably stouter. Terminal margin of vinculum slightly 

 produced at lateral angles. Female genitalia with 

 rather small narrow bursa containing a collar of fine 

 spines at junction of bursa and ductus bursae in addi- 

 tion to the normal pair of spined signa ; the broad, short 

 ductus biu-sae sclerotized throughout, its lower terminal 

 margin at genital opening sharply concave. 



Type localities: Brazil {rubedinella, in BM) ; Santo 

 Domingo {translticida and rufescentalis, in BM); Hon- 

 duras {minualis, in BM); Venezuela (deprivalis and 

 Venezuelans, in BM) ; Corrientes, Argentina (pyrrhochrel- 

 lus, in Paris Mus.). 



Food plants: Limabeans, black-eyed peas. These 

 records from Florida specimens reared by the Special 

 Survey of the Division of Foreign Plant Quarantine of 

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

 Larvae feeding on the leaves. 



Distribution. — ^United States: Florida, Egmont 

 (Apr.), Hobe Sound (May), Hypoluxo, Lake Beach 

 (Feb.), Palm Beach, Palmetto, Vero Beach (Sept., 

 Oct., Dec), Winter Park (July). Cuba: Havana, 

 Matanzas (June), Santiago Province (Oct.). Domini- 

 can Republic. Puerto Rico: Catano (July), Coamo 

 Springs (Apr.), Dovado (May), Isabela Substation 

 (Apr.), Palmas Abajas (Apr.), Puerto Real (Vieques Isl., 

 Apr.), San Germdn (Apr.). Virgin Islands: Kingshill 

 (St. Croix, Mar., Apr., June). Jamaica. Trinidad: 

 Quare River Valley (Jan.). Mexico: Chiapas (May), 

 Guadalajara, Guerrero (Dec), Oaxaca, Sierra de Gue- 

 rrero (Nov.), "Mexican Sub-region." Guatemala: 

 Cayuga (Feb., Mar., Apr., May, Jime, Dec), Chejel 

 (Aug.), Guatemala (city. Mar.), Quirigud (Mar.). 

 Honduras. Costa Rica: Juan Vinas (Jan., June, 

 Dec). Panama: Alhajuela (Mar., Apr.), Corazal 

 (May, June, July), La Chorrera (Apr.), Obispo, Paraiso 

 (Apr., May), Porto Bello (Apr., May, Oct.), Taboga 

 Isl. (Jan., July), TabernUla. Venezuela. French 

 Guiana: St. Jean Maroni, St. Laurent Maroni. Bo- 

 livia: Esperanza, Prov. del Sard (Dept. Santa Cruz, 

 May). Brazil: Rio de Janiero (Nov.). Paraguay: 

 ViUarrica (Jan., Mar., Oct., Nov., Dec). Argen- 

 tina: Corrientes, Metdn (Prov. del Salta, Feb.). 

 Per^: Chanchamayo. Generally distributed through- 

 out the tropical and subtropical regions of the New 

 World. 



In many respects (its habitus, upturned female labial 

 palpi, sexual dimorphism, and similarity of larval 



habit) this species seems to go with Elasmo-palpus 

 lignosellus, with which it has been associated; but on 

 male and female genitalic characters it belongs definitely 

 with the species here assigned to Ufa, and on all larval 

 characters it is radically different from lignosellus. In 

 structural and pattern characters its larva resembles 

 that of Caristanius decoloralis. 



85. Genus Elasmopalpus Blanchard 



Elasmopalpus Blanchard, in Gay, Historia fisca y politica de 

 Chile. Zoologia, vol. 7, p. 104, 1852. — Hulst, Phycitidae of 

 N. Amer., p. 157, 1890. — Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 1, p. 418, 

 1893.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 628, 1923.— Janse, 

 Journ. Ent. Soc. South Africa, vol. 7, p. 4, 1944. (Type of 

 genus: Elasmopalpus angustellus Blanchard.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna weakly pubescent ; 

 on male a sinus and a short scale tuft in base of shaft. 

 Labial palpus of male erect and appressed to face, reach- 

 ing well above vertex; third segment minute, hidden in 

 scaling of second segment; of female upcurved, reaching 

 slightly above vertex; third segment but slightly shorter 

 than second', acuminate. Maxillary palpus of male in 

 the form of an aigrette; of female, squamous. Forewing 

 smooth; 11 veins; vein 2 from close to lower outer angle 

 of cell; 3 from the angle; 2, 3 and 4 approximately 

 equidistant at base (the position of 2 individually vari- 

 able, on some specimens very close and occasionally 

 connate with 3) ; 4 and 5 separated at base, approximate 

 for a short distance from cell ; 6 from below upper angle 

 of cell, straight; 8 and 9 stalked for less than half their 

 lengths; 10 from the cell; male without costal fold. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from well before lower outer angle 

 of cell; 3 from the angle, separated from 4 by a very 

 short spur; 4 and 5 stalked for at least two thirds of their 

 lengths; 7 and 8 closely approximate, contiguous or 

 weakly anastomosed for a very short distance from cell; 

 cell about one-third the length of wing; discoceUular 

 vein curved, produced at lower angle. Eighth abdom- 

 inal segment of male with compound ventral scale and 

 hair tufts. 



Male genitalia with uncus rather narrowly triangu- 

 late, its apex narrowly rounded. Transtilla absent. 

 Apical process of gnathos a slender, elongate hook. 

 Harpe with costa not appreciably sclerotized; sacculus 

 with upper margin an erect, irregularly serrate ridge, 

 slightly produced at apex. Anellus U-shaped, with 

 lateral arms strongly sclerotized and produced as 

 curved pointed horns. Aedeagus slender; penis armed 

 with a single, slightly curved, slender, strongly sclero- 

 tized cornutus, from slightly more than one-third to 

 one-half as long as aedeagus. Vinculum stout, longer 

 than greatest width, tapering to narrowly rounded or 

 bluntly pointed terminal margin. 



Female genitalia with signa consisting of two opposed, 

 strongly spined plates ; ductus bursae cylindrical, longer 

 than bursa, sclerotized for half its length from junction 

 with bursa (the sclerotized part longitudinally ribbed), 

 membranous on posterior half, expanding to wide 

 genital opening, weakly sclerotized on inner dorsal 

 surface behind genital opening; ductus seminalis from a 



