196 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 207 



clustered and narrowly based cornuti, and the sclero- 

 tized elbow in ductus bursae. It contains but one 

 known species. The other American species that have 

 been assigned to it by Hampson {texanella and cordu- 

 bensiella) are dissimilar in both structure and habitus. 



390. Hulstia undulatella (Clemens) 

 Figures 64, 444, 931 



Nephopteryx undulatella Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhUa^ 

 delphia, p. 205, 1860. 



Scoparia rubiginalis Walker, List, vol. 34, p. 1498, 1865. 



Honora obsipella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 118, 1888 (new 

 synonymy). 



Heterogr aphis oblitella Ragonot (not Zeller), Ent. Amer., vol. 5, 

 p. 116, 1889. 



Honora oblitella undulatella (Clemens) Hulst, Phycitidae of N. 

 Amer., p. 187, 1890. 



Honora fumosella Hulst, Canadian Ent., vol. 32, p. 174, 1900. — 

 Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 633, 1920. — McDunnough, 

 Check list, No. 6350, 1939. (New synonymy.) 



Hulstia undulatella (Clemens) Hampson, in Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 2, p. 128, 1901. — Essig, Insects of western North 

 America, p. 711, 1926.— McDunnough, Checklist, No. 6341, 

 1939. — Darlington, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 73, p. 91, 

 1947. 



Hulstea undulatella (Clemens) Hulst, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, 

 p. 432, 1903. 



Forewing whitish ocherous, pale gray or dark grayish 

 fuscous, more or less dusted with white scaling especially 

 ia median area of wing, in darkest specimens (color form 

 fumosella) pattern mostly obliterated by dark scaling; 

 transverse lines normally distinct, narrow, white; ante- 

 medial line oblique, notched at cell and lower fold, 

 broadly bordered inwardly by fuscous or fuscous and 

 ocherous, especially toward inner margia, and outward- 

 ly by a narrow dark shade especially from costa to cell; 

 subterminal line sinuate, parallel to and rather near 

 termen, bordered inwardly by a narrow dark line and 

 outwardly by a fuscous or ocherous fuscous shade; discal 

 spots, especially the lower one, usually distinct. Hiad 

 wings dark smoky fuscous. Palpi, underside of body, 

 and legs whitish, more or less shaded with fuscous in 

 darker specimens. Alar expanse, 16-22 mm. 



Genitalic characters as given for the genus. 



Type localities: Pennsylvania {undulatella, lost); 

 North America {rubiginalis, in BM); "Texas" [sic] 

 {obsipella, m AMNH, ex Eutgers); Newark, N, J. 

 {fumosella, in AMNH, ex Rutgers). 



Food plants: Elm [?], sugar beets. 



Distribution: United States: Maine; Massachu- 

 setts, Martha's Vineyard (July), Vineyard Haven 

 (Aug.); Connecticut, East River (July, Sept.); New 

 Hampshire, Hampton (June, Aug., Sept., Oct.); New 

 Jersey, Anglesea (June), Newark; North Carolina, 

 Southern Pines (Oct.); Florida, Glenwood, Hastings 

 (Apr.); Wisconsin, Cranmoor; Montana, Bozeman 

 (Aug.); Colorado, Clear Creek, Denver (Aug., Sept.), 

 Florisant (July), Glenwood Springs (Aug.), Wiadsor 

 (July) ; Utah, Delta (July), Logan (Aug.), Ogden (July), 

 Provo (July), Salt Lake, "Southern Utah" (July), 

 Stockton (Aug.), Vineyard (June); Nevada, Clark 

 County, Reno (July); New Mexico, Fort Wingate 



(June), Hot Springs, Jemez Springs (July), Sapello 

 Canyon (July) ; Arizona, Flagstaff, "Southern Arizona," 

 Williams (JiJy); California, Alameda (Aug., Oct.), 

 Chino (Nov.), Folsom (July), Palo Alto, Sacramento 

 (Oct.), San Diego (Sept., Oct., Nov.), Siskiyou (Sept,), 

 Truckee (Aug.), Woodland; Washington, Bellingham 

 (July, Aug.), Friday Harbor (July), Pullman (May, 

 July, Aug., Sept.), Snake River (May), Walla Walla 

 (June, July), Wenatchee (July, Aug.). Canada: Que- 

 bec, Montreal; Alberta, Calgary (July, kng.) ; Manitoba, 

 Aweme (July, Aug.); British Columbia, Arrowhead 

 Lake, Goldstream (July), Kaslo, Victoria (Aug.). 



This species was described from eastern specimens, 

 but seems to be much more abundant in our Western 

 States. Very little is known of its life history. Clem- 

 ens states that he took larvae and pupae of undulatella 

 on elm at Niagara Falls, Canada. He did not rear any 

 moths from the larvae and his statement is ambiguous 

 as to the rearing of moths from the pupae (which were 

 found under the bark of the tree) , so the association of 

 undulatella with elm as a host is by no means estab- 

 lished. In the National Museum we have a half-dozen 

 reared specunens from Colorado, Utah, and California 

 reared from larvae feeding on sugar-beet foliage. This 

 is the only authenticated food-plant record with which 



1 am acquainted. 



The name fumosella represents nothing more than a 

 much suffused, dark color form. There are four 

 examples in the National Collection matching Hulst's 

 type and several specimens from widely scattered 

 localities intergrading between it and typical undula- 

 tella. None of these (including the type oi fumosella) 

 exhibits any genitalic differences. 



The type of obsipella is a freak specimen with vein 4 

 present in one hind wing. On the strength of this 

 venation it was referred to the synonymy of Elasmo- 

 palpus petrellus by Hulst in 1890 and so appears in our 

 lists. It is a ragged female with only one hind wing 

 complete enough to show venation and is labeled 

 "Colorado" a more probable locality than Texas as 

 given in the original description. Its genitalia are 

 those of undulatella. 



Genera 101-104: Honora to Cabotia 



[Venational division A. Forewing with 11 veins; 10 from cell; 



2 from or from very near lower outer angle of cell; 3 closely 

 approximate to or connate with stalk of 4-5; 4^5 stalked at least 

 for one-half their lengths. Hind wing with 7-8 anastomosed or 

 contiguous (Oncolabis) beyond cell; 2 from or from very near 

 lower outer angle of cell; discocellular vein curved. Labial palpi 

 oblique. Male genitalia with uncus triangulate; tegumen not 

 appreciably reduced in proportion to uncus; harpe with short 

 erect clasper; transtilla incomplete (except in Honorinus) ; aedea- 

 gus short, stout; penis armed with sclerotized folds or granula- 

 tions or short spines. Female genitalia with signa consisting of 

 densely spined round plate, detached thornlike spines or both; 

 ductus seminalis from bursa copulatrix.] 



101. Genus Honora Grote 



Honora Grote, Bull U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, p. 702, 

 1878; North Amer. Ent., vol. l,p. 11, 1879.— Hulst, Phycitidae 



