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393. Honora sciurella Ragonot 



Figure 446 



Honora sciurella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 12, 1887. — 

 Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 189, 1890. — Hampson, in 

 Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 185, 1901. — McDunnough, 

 Check list. No. 6346, 1939. 



Known to me only from descriptions of Ragonot and 

 Hampson, the Ragonot figures (plate 37, figs. 16, 17) 

 and the genitalia of the male type. The harpes of the 

 latter (fig. 446) are somewhat longer in proportion to 

 the remainder of the genitalia than in the other species 

 of the genus. In the National Collection is a female 

 (24 mm.) from WaUa WaUa, Wash. (June), that is 

 almost an exact match, even to the dark fuscous hind 

 wing, to Ragonot's figure 17 of the female in Paris. A 

 larger female (32 mm.) in the National Collection from 

 Monachee Meadows, Calif., is a good match for 

 Ragonot's figure 16, of the male type, except that the 

 hind wing is whitish towards the base as described by 

 Hampson, In these two examples the spining of the 

 bursa is similar to that of montinatatella (fig. 939) . The 

 exact status of sciurella cannot be determined until it 

 is reared and more specimens in substantial series are 

 assembled. 



Alar expanse, "32 mm." 



Type locality: California (type in Paris Mus.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



394. Honora dolella Dyar 



FiGUEES 448, 938 



Honora dotella Dyar, Pomona College Journ. Ent., vol. 2, p. 377, 

 1910':— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6345, 1939. 



Distinguished from mellinella by the darker, more 

 sufl^used (blackish fuscous) ground color and the more 

 strongly contrasted whitish costal area of forewing; 

 antemedial line thin, white, not continued to costa; 

 ocherous patch beyond antemedial line obsolete or 

 represented only by a pale trace; basal pale spot clay 

 colored, concolorous with thorax; sub terminal line ob- 

 solete; upper discal spot obliterated; lower discal spot 

 black, elongate, completely enclosed by the dark ground 

 color and with no trace of a white border. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white with a fuscous shade along termen 

 and some fuscous shading on the veins, especially in 

 female. Alar expanse, 17-24 mm. 



Male genitalia distinguished chiefly by the somewhat 

 widened apical portion of cucullus. Bursa of female 

 genitalia without detached spines opposite the large, 

 spined plate (signum) . 



Type locality: Claremont, Calif, (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. , 



Distribution: California, Claremont, Loma Linda 

 (Mar.), San Diego (Mar., May, Jime). 



Apparently a distinct species, but close to mellinella. 



395. Honora montinatatella (Hulst) 

 FlGITEB 939 



Spermatophthora montinatatella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 134, 



1887. 

 Honora canicostella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 12, 1887. 



Honora montinatatella (Hulst), Ent. Amer., vol. 5, p. 156, 1889; 

 Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 189, 1890. — Hampson, in 

 Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 186, 1901. — McDunnough, 

 Check list. No. 6348, 1939. 



Forewing brownish red with costal area white dusted 

 with reddish scales, the pale costal color spreading into 

 the cell at middle of wing and enclosing the blackish 

 discal spots, broken near middle of costa by a narrow 

 band of the ground color which slants outwardly into 

 cell; antemedial line incomplete, a thin line of whitish 

 scales from inner margin to cell, set further out on wing 

 than in other species; sub terminal line obsolete or nearly 

 so, when present well back from terminal margin so 

 that space between antemedial and subterminal lines is 

 considerably reduced (less than one-third the wing 

 area); on some specimens an obscure ocherous patch 

 bordering the antemedial line outwardly near inner 

 margin. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous. Alar expanse, 

 24-28 mm. 



Male genitalia similar to those of mellinella except 

 vinculum narrower at terminal margin, shape similar to 

 that of subsciurella (fig. 941). 



Type localities: Sierra Nevada, Calif, (montinata- 

 tella, in AMNH, ex Rutgers); California {canicostella, 

 in Paris Mus.) . 



Food plant: Unknown. 



In addition to the Hulst type I have seen two other 

 specimens (cf and 9, in USNM), from a subalpine 

 meadow on Bogachiel Peak of the Olympic Mts., Wash. 

 Apparently montinatatella is a high-altitude species. 



396. Honora perdubiella (Dyar), new combination 

 Figures 449, 940 



Zophodia perdubiella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, 



p. 37, 1905. 

 Eumysia perdubiella (Dyar), Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 13, p. 221, 



1925.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6299, 1939. 



Pale ashy gray; costal area sparsely dusted with 

 whitish scales; transverse lines obsolete; lower discal 

 spot at end of cell faintly indicated, blackish. Hind 

 wing slightly paler than forewing, unmarked, shiny. 

 Alar expanse, 22-26 mm. 



Male genitalia distinguished chiefly by the shape of 

 the apical projection of gnathos. Female genitalia 

 figured from paratype from the type locality; similar 

 to those of montinatatella, especially the genitalia of the 

 Mount Olympus female of Hulst's species. 



Type locality: Stockton, Utah (June, type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Apparently a distinct species. Dyar's types are 

 rubbed so the extremely pale color of forewing may not 

 be true of fresh examples. A female in the National 

 Collection from Baker, Nev. (May), is much darker, 

 shows faint traces of the normal transverse lines and 

 indications of the blackish discal and terminal dots. 

 However, there is scarcely any whitish dusting in the 

 costal area. The forewing is dark grayish fuscous and 

 the hind wing fuscous, with a faintly darker line along 

 termen and some dark shading on the veins. 



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