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moderately long and stout; penis partially ribbed and 

 pubescent. 



Female genitalia with a small weak signum developed 

 as a plate with an inwardly projecting flange; bursa 

 copulatrix small, minutely and very weakly scobinate; 

 ductus bursae minutely scobinate, with two rather large, 

 sclerotized, dorsal plates at genital opening; ductus 

 seminalis from bm-sa near signum. 



As here defined the genus is limited to its type species. 

 Its distribution is central and southern Europe, the 

 northern part of the United States and southern Canada. 



495. Zophodia convolutella (Hiibner) 

 Figures 622, 1015 



Tinea convolutella Hiibner, Sammlung europaischer Schmetter- 

 linge, Lepidoptera 8, Tineae 2, pi. 5, fig. 34, 1796. 



Tinea grossulariella Hubner, Geschichte europaischer Schmetter- 

 linge. Tinea II, pi. C.a.b., fig. 2.a.b.c., [1807-1809] (larva). 



Phycis grossulariella (Htlbner) Zincken, in German and Zincken, 

 Mag. der Ent., vol. 3, p. 144, 1818.— Treitschke, Die Schmet- 

 terlinge von Europa, vol. 9, pt. 1, p. 172, 1832; op. cit., vol. 

 10, pt. 3, p. 275, 1835. — Duponchel, Histoire naturelle des 

 L^pidoptferes, ou papillons de France, vol. 10, p. 206, pi. 

 279, fig. 9, 1836. 



Zophodia grossularialis Hubner, Verzeichniss bekannter Schmet- 

 t[er]linge p. 370, [1825] (emended spelling for grossulariella 

 and to replace convolutella) . 



Zophodia convolutella (Hiibner), Verzeichniss bekannter Schmet- 

 t[er]linge (sic), p. 370, [1825]. — Heinemann, Schmetterlinge 

 Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Abt. 2, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 190, 

 1865.— Ragonot, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 22, p. 19, 1865.— 

 Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 20, 1901. — 

 Staudinger and Rebel, Catalog der Lepidopteren des palae- 

 arctischen Faunengebietes, vol. 2, p. 25, 1901. — Spuler, 

 Die Schmetterlinge Europas, vol. 2, p. 207, 1910. — Heinrich, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 402, 1939. 



Myelois (Zophodia) convolutella (Hubner) Zeller, Isis von Oken, 

 1839, p. 178; 1848, p. 679. 



Homoeosoma convolutella (Hiibner) Herrich-Schaffer, Systemar 

 tische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, vol. 4, 

 p. 107, 1849. 



Pempelia grossulariae Riley, First annual report on the noxious, 

 beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri, p. 140, 

 1869; Papilio, vol. 1, p. 108, 1881 (suggests synonymy with 

 convolutella). — Packard, Guide to the study of insects, p. 

 331, 1869. 



Dakruma turbatella Grote, Bull. U. S. Geo!. Geogr. Surv. Terr, 

 vol. 4, pp. 702, 703, 1878; North Amer. Ent., vol. 1, p. 11, 

 1879. 



Myelois convolutella (Hiibner) Packard, Guide to the study of 

 insects, ed. 7, p. 331, 1880. 



Dakruma grossulariae (Riley) Grote, North Amer. Ent., vol. 1, 

 p. 68, 1880. 



Dakruma convolutella (Hiibner) Grote, New check list of North 

 American moths, p. 55, 1882 (gives grossulariae and lurhor- 

 tella as synonyms). 



Zophodia grossulariae (Riley) Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 

 173, 1890; U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 429, 1903.— Hampson, 

 in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 21, ISOl. — Dyar, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 37, 1905; Ins. Insc. Menstr., 

 vol. 13, p. 221, 1925.— Pack, Utah Agr. Exp. Station. Bull. 

 216, pp. 1-12, 1930.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6303, 

 1939. 



Euzophera franconiella Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 177, 

 1890. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 61, 1901. 



Zophodia bella Hulst, Canadian Ent., vol. 24, p. 61, 1892. — Dyar, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 6, p. 228, 1904. 



Zophodia franconiella (Hulst) Barnes and McDunnough, Check 

 list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 5706, 1917. 



Zophodia grossulariae franconiella (Hulst) Dyar, Ins. Insc. 



Menstr., vol. 13, p. 221, 1925. 

 Zophodia grossulariae ihouna Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 13, 



p. 221, 1925. 

 Zophodia grossulariae dilativitta Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 



13, p. 222, 1925. 

 Zophodia grossulariae magnificans Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 



13, p. 222, 1925. 



Forewing fuscous dusted with white, the white color 

 strongest in central costal area, the general color gray; 

 antemedial line outwardly oblique to lower vein of cell 

 and notched between cell and inner margin, white, 

 bordered outwardly by a more or less extended black 

 shade; subterminal line oblique, slightly dentate and 

 sinuate, white, bordered inwardly by a black line and 

 outwardly by a narrow black line for a short distance 

 from costa; the fold and veins at extreme base of wing 

 and in area beyond subterminal line faintly outlined in 

 black; discal mark at end of cell black, curved, rarely 

 replaced by a pair of dots; a row of black dots along 

 termen between the vein ends. Hind wing pale smoky 

 white with a narrow dark line along termen. Alar 

 expanse, 25-36 mm. 



Male genitalia with lateral margins of vinculum 

 broadly and shallowly excavate, its posterior margins 

 straight. Female genitalia with signum small and 

 weak. The eighth-segment collar is subject to con- 

 siderable variation in the size and shape of the unsclero- 

 tized dorsal area ; but these variations do not conform to 

 the varieties that have been named and can be found 

 in any series from one locality. 



Type localities: Germany {convolutella and grossu- 

 lariella, no known existing types); Missouri (grossu- 

 iariae, no linown existing type); Oldtown, Maine 

 (turbatella, in BM); Franconia, N. H. (Jranconiella, in 

 AMNH, ex Rutgers) ; Massachusetts {bella, in AMNH, 

 ex Rutgers); southern Utah {ihouna, in USNM); San 

 Diego, CaUf. {dilativitta, in USNM) Seattle, Wash. 

 {magnificans, in USNM). 



Food plants: Ribes grossularia Linnaeus and other 

 Ribes species (larva feeding in the fruit). 



Disteibution: Europe (central and southern). 

 United States: Maine, Orono; New Hampshire, 

 Hampton (May), Durham; Missouri; Colorado, Mani- 

 tou, Denver (Apr.), Fort Collins (Mar., Apr.); Utah, 

 Logan ("June"), Beaver Canyon ("vii"); Oregon; 

 Calijornia, San Diego ; Washington, Seattle, Bellingham 

 (Apr.). Canada: Quebec, St. Johns County (Apr.), 

 Mount St. Hilaire (May); Ontario, Hymers; Alberta, 

 Edmonton (May), Bilby (May); British Columbia, 

 Kaslo (Apr.), Wellington (Apr.), Alberni (May), 

 Coldstream (May), Vancouver Isl. (Apr.). 



The foregoing localities are for the specimens before 

 me. The species is generally distributed over the 

 northern part of the United States and southern 

 Canada. 



The species is more extensively treated in my paper 

 on the cactus-feeding Phycitinae (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 86, pp. 402-405, 1939). In this country it is popu- 

 larly known as the "gooseberry fruit-worm." It has a 

 rather extensive economic literature and is the most im- 



