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based, disconnected spines, a few of these spines in 

 ductus near its junction with bursa; ductus seminahs 

 from ductus bursae near genital opening. 



Eepresented in North America by a single species. 



388. Heterographis morrisonella Ragonot 



Figures 442, 929 



Heterographis morrisonella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 11, 

 1887.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 186, 1890.— Hamp- 

 son, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 169, 1901. — Dyar, 

 Proc. Ent. Soo. Washington, vol. 7, p. 38, 1905.— McDun- 

 nough. Check list, No. 6339, 1939. 



Heterographis colorandensis Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 12, 

 1887. 



Mona olhiella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 116, 1888. 



Heterographis morrisonella coloradensis (Ragonot) Hulst, Phy- 

 citidae of N. Amer., p. 186, 1890. — Hampson, in Ragonot, 

 Monograph, pt. 2, p. 169, 1901. 



Heterographis morrisonella olhiella (Hulst), Phycitidae of N. 

 Amer., p. 186, 1890. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, 

 pt. 2, p. 169, 1901. 



Heterographis ignistrigella Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 166, 

 1901.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6338, 1939. (New 

 synonymy.) 



Honora palloricostella Walter, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 30, p. 141, 1928.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6344, 1939. 

 (New synonymy.) 



Extren[iely variable in color and intensity of mark- 

 ings, ranging from a creamy ocherous form with only 

 the faintest dark dusting to forms much suffused with 

 reddish or blackish fuscous. Fore wing with costa some- 

 what paler (from base to outer Une) than the remainder 

 of the wing in nearly all specimens, contrastingly whit- 

 ish in some; transverse pale lines more or less distinct; 

 antemedial line outwardly slanting to lower margin of 

 cell, indented below at fold; sub terminal line nearly 

 parallel with outer margin, indented at vein 6 and lower 

 fold; in some specimens an ocherous band, a blackish 

 fuscous patch, or a diffused reddish shade preceding the 

 antemedial line ; similar colorations frequently following 

 the sub terminal line; the area between the transverse 

 lines frequently grayish from the heavy dusting of dark 

 scales ; usually the blackish dusting is more conspicuous 

 along some of the veins. Hind wings from very pale to 

 dark smoky fuscous; cilia whitish; veins more or less 

 outlined by fuscous shading. Alar expanse, 13-23 mm. 



Male genitalia with lateral margins of uncus straight, 

 apex bluntly rounded. Harpe with costa and lower 

 margin of harpe nearly parallel; cucullus slightly curved 

 near apex. Female genitalia with bursa long; spines of 

 signa arranged in more or less regular, longitudinal 

 series, the niunber and arrangement of spines differing 

 in different specimens, hardly any two examples being 

 identical (extremes of variation are shown in the fig- 

 ures) ; ductus bursae long, slender throughout its length, 

 weakly sclerotized between junction of ductus seminalis 

 and genital opening. 



Type localities: Texas (mornsonella and ignistri- 

 gella, in Paris Mus.) ; Colorado (coloradensis, in Paris 

 Mus.); Sahda, Colo, {olhiella, in AMNH, ex Rutgers) 

 Tempe, Ariz, {palloricostella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Franseria bipinnatifida. A single fe- 

 male reared by F. N. Pierce, Sept. 6, 1938, at El Se- 



gundo, Calif., our only food-plant record. The species 

 presumably feeds on other composites. 



Disthibution: United States: Texas, BeeviUe 

 (Oct.), Brownsville (June), Burnet Coimty (Apr.), 

 Sabinal (Apr., May, Jxme), San Benito (June, July, 

 Sept.), San Diego (May), ZavaUa County (Apr.); New 

 Mexico, Albuquerque (July), Deming (July), Fort Win- 

 gate (June, July), Hot Springs (Aug.), Jemez Springs, 

 Las Vegas (May), Mesilla Park (Apr., May), Santa Fe; 

 Arizona, Baboquivari Mts. (July), Phoenix (Mar., 

 Apr., Aug., Oct.), Tempe (Apr., Aug., Sept., Oct.), 

 White Mts. (Aug.), Yuma County (Mar.); Colorado, 

 Denver, Glenwood Springs (Aug.); Utah, Provo (July), 

 Scover Valley (May), Stockton (June, July, Aug., Oct.), 

 Vineyard (June); Nevada, Pyramid Lake; California, 

 Balboa (Sept.), Death Valley (Apr.), El Segundo 

 (Sept.), Ibanpa Mts. (Oct.), Jacumba (June), Laguna 

 (Sept.), La Puerta (July), Loma Linda (Mar., Apr., 

 May, Aug., Sept.), Narrows (Mar.), Palm Springs 

 (Mar., Apr., June), San Diego (June); Washington, 

 Blue Mts. (Bone Springs, July), Pullman (June, July), 

 Walla WaUa (May, June), Yakima (June). Mexico: 

 Dm-ango, Sonora. 



The color variations are so many, the color forms so 

 widely distributed, and the intergradations so gradual 

 that none of the synonymical names can be used as a 

 racial designation. The species, however, is clearly 

 defined and easily identified by its genitalic characters, 



99. Genus Staudingeria Ragonot 



Staudingeria Ragonot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 6, vol. 7, p. 

 249, 1887; Monograph, pt. 2, p. x, 1901. — Hulst, Phycitidae 

 of N. Amer., p. 185, 1890. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 2, p. 131, 1901. (Type of genus: Ancylosis morho- 

 sella Staudinger.) 



Characters of Heterographis except: Labial palpus 

 obliquely ascending, third segment very short, less than 

 one-third the length of second, in male second segment 

 grooved to hold the maxillary palpus; maxillary palpus 

 of male in the form of an aigrette; female genitalia with 

 bursa very narrowly elongate, ductus bursae much 

 shorter than bursa. 



The status of this genus in relation to Heterographis 

 is similar to that of Ocala in reliation to Macrorrhinia. 

 If only our North American species were involved I 

 should be inclined to consider the differences in male 

 maxillary palpi and the female bursae to be merely spe- 

 cific; but apparently some of the species under each 

 generic name in the Old World are properly assigned 

 and the two groups of species there are separable on the 

 male palpal character; so, for the present at least, it 

 seems advisable to keep the names separate. I have 

 not seen the type of Staudingeria, but there is no reason 

 to doubt that om* American species is congeneric. Many 

 specimens of albipenella (especially what Dyar described 

 as olivacella) are an exact match for Ragonot's figure of 

 morboseUa (Monograph, pi. 27, fig. 1). The most striking 

 difference between oiu- American representatives of 

 Staudingeria and Heterographis is in the comparative 

 length of the ductus bursae of the female. In Hetero- 



