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Hind wing hyaline white shaded with blackish fuscous, 

 broadly along costa and narrowly along terminal margin ; 

 veins faintly outlined by dark shading. Alar expanse, 

 22 mm. 



Male genitalia as given for the genus; aedeagus 

 broadened at base, sharply constricted just beyond. 



Type locality: La Chorerra, Patamayo District, 

 Pert! (type in Cornell Univ.) . 



Food plant: Unkno^vn. 



Described from unique male type collected on the 

 Cornell University Expedition (Apr. 1920) under lot 

 No. 607. 



The white discal spot on forewing and the genitalia 

 should easily identify the species. The former is also 

 common to our American species of Eusophera but in 

 that genus the transverse lines are much closer together 

 than in negator. 



Genus 165: Eulogia 



[Venational division A. Forewing with 11 veins; 4-5 approx- 

 imate, connate or very shortly stalked. Hind wing with 3 and 5 

 connate; cell long; discocellular vein curved. Male genitalia 

 with apical process of gnathos a short, flat, furcate plate; trans- 

 tilla incomplete. Labial palpus upturned.] 



165. Eulogia, new genus 



Type of genus: Ephestia ochrifrontella Zeller. 



Characters of Euzophera except: Labial palpus with 

 third segment as long or nearly as long as second. Fore- 

 wing of male with a narrow, elongate costal fold ; veins 

 4 and 5 approximate, connate or very shortly stalked. 

 Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos a short, 

 flat plate, furcate at apex; transtiUa incomplete; aede- 

 agus slender; penis armed with a single curved cornutus. 

 Female genitalia with bursa copulatrix smooth except 

 for a very few scobinations surrounding signum; signum 

 a cluster of small, short, thornlike spines (not on a plate) ; 

 ductus bm-sae strongly sclerotized at and just before 

 genital opening, the sclerotized part of ductus tubular. 



On venation, wing maculation, and palpal characters 

 the type species (ochrifrontella) could go well enough in 

 Euzophera, where it has been placed; but the genitaUa 

 rule it out. All the really congeneric species of Em-ope 

 and North America placed in Euzophera have similarly 

 constructed, complete trans tillae, the same type of 

 hooked projection from gnathos, similar multiple cor- 

 nuti on the penis, and similar wide-mouthed, imsclero- 

 tized genital openings in the female. On all of these 

 characters ochrifrontella is ruled out. 



567. Eulogia ochrifrontella (Zeller), new combination 



Figures 78, 79, 583, 1069 



Ephestia ochrifrontella Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 25, 



p. 337, 1876. 

 Euzophera ferruginella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 14, 



1887. 

 Euzophera ochrifrontella (Zeller) Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., 



p. 177, 1890. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, 



p. 67, 1901.— Ely, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, p. 

 203, 1910.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 631, 1920. — 

 McDunnough, Check list, No. 6318, 1939. 



Forewing copper colored, with the area between the 

 transverse lines heavily dusted with black; antemedial 

 line far out (slightly beyond middle) on wing, pale 

 ocherous, angulate; sub terminal line, parallel with 

 termen, slightly indented at vein 6 and lower fold; an 

 obscure pale ocherous line along discocellular vein; in 

 some specimens the blackish dusting extends beyond 

 the transverse lines over most of the basal and terminal 

 areas of the wing, but this is not a normal condition. 

 Hind wing pale smoky fuscous; veins and terminal 

 margin slightly darker. Alar expanse, 1 1-15 mm. 



GenitaUa as given for the genus. In the female the 

 ductus bursae has a slightly sclerotized band near its 

 junction with bursa. 



Type localities: Texas (ochrifrontella, in MCZ); 

 North Carolina (Jerruginella, in Paris Mus.). 



Food plants: Pecan, oak, apple. 



Distribution: United States: Massachusetts, Co- 

 hasset (July), Framingham (Sept., Oct.), Martha's 

 Vineyard (July, Aug.); Connecticut, East River (July, 

 Aug., Sept., Oct.), Stamford (July); New Jersey, Kliza,- 

 beth (Aug.); Pennsylvania., Adams County (June), 

 Arendtsville (Aug.), Hazleton (July), New Brighton 

 (June, July); Maryland, Plummers Isl. (May, June, 

 July) ; North Carolina; Florida, Orlando (Mar.) ; Texas; 

 Illinois, Decatur (May, June) ; Kansas, Onaga. Can- 

 ada: Manitoba, Rounthwaite (July), Winnipeg; British 

 Columbia, Duncans (Vancouver Isl., June), Kaslo 

 (July). 



The foregoing food-plant records are from specimens 

 in the National Museum. Nothing, as far as I know, 

 has been published on the life history. 



The venation is variable in different specimens and 

 sometimes on opposing wings of the same insect. On 

 forewing vein 10 may be separate from, approximate to, 

 or connate with the stalk of 8 and 9 ; 4 and 5 may be 

 approximate or connate or, sometimes, very shortly 

 stalked. On the hind wing the anastomisis of 7 and 8 

 varies, but is normally short. There is no appreciable 

 individual variation in genitalia. 



Genus 166: Prosoeuzophera 



[Venational division D. Forewing with 10 veins; 4 absent; 3 and 

 5 connate. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 connate or shortly 

 stalked. Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos a stout, 

 elongate hook with pointed apex; transtilla complete. Labial 

 palpi upturned.] 



166. Prosoeuzophera, new genus 



Type of genus : Euzophera impletella Zeller. 



Characters of Euzophera except: Forewing with 10 

 veins; vein 4 absent; 3 and 5 connate from lower outer 

 angle of cell. 



A direct derivative of Euzophera but with advanced 

 venation, replacing Euzophera in tropical America. 



