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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 207 



568. Prosoeuzophera impletella (Zeller), new combination 



Figures 107, 582, 1067 



Euzophera impletella Zeller, Horae Soc. Ent. Rossicae, Vol. 16, 

 p. 234, 1881. 



In color and maculation like small, pale examples of 

 Euzophera semifuneralis with which it was synonymized 

 by Hampson (Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 66, 

 1901). He either overlooked or ignored the distinct 

 venational difference between impletella and the North 

 American species of Euzophera. The genitalia of 

 impletella (cf and 9) exhibit differences of only a 

 specific character from the Euzophera, quite distinct 

 specifically from semijuneralis, as our figures show; but 

 the absence of vein 4 and the connate condition of 

 veins 3 and 5 of forewing are constant. Alar expanse, 

 15-16.5 mm. 



Type locality: Honda, Colombia (in BM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Colombia: Honda, Maraquita. Ja- 

 maica (9, in USNM). Puerto Eico: Villa Margarita 

 (Catano, Apr.) 



Genera 167-169: Farndbia to Micromescinia 



[Venational division B. Forewing with 10 or 11 veins; 2 and 3 

 stalked or united. Cell open or incomplete in fore or hind wings. 

 Male genitalia with transtilla complete.] 



167. Farnobia, new genus 



Type of genus: Euzophera quadripunda ZeUer. 



Tongue well developed. Antenna of male with basal 

 segment narrowly elongate, bearing a short spur from 

 inner side near apex; shaft deeply curved toward base, 

 pubescent; of female simple. Labial palpus upturned, 

 scarcely reaching vertex; third segment shorter than 

 second. Maxillary palpus minute, rather broadly and 

 flatly scaled, appressed to face. Forewing smooth; 10 

 veins; veins 2 and 3 united; 4 and 5 short stalked; 6 

 curved and connate with the stalk of 8-9-10; 8 and 9 

 stalked; 10 from the stalk of 8-9; cell open (discocellular 

 vein absent) ; in male costa enlarged, lobed and sinuate, 

 and outer margui concave between veins 7 and 5; an 

 elongate discal fovea in male between veins 6 and the 

 stalk of 3-5. Sternite of eighth abdominal segment of 

 male developed as a broadly triangulate sclerotized 

 pocket. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos a short, 

 stout, blunt hook. Uncus triangulate. Transtilla com- 

 plete, a heavy arched bridge with enlarged lateral lobes. 

 Harpe with incmvation between sacculus and cucullus; 

 cucullus narrow and narrowly rounded at apex; costa 

 sclerotized for most of its length, but not produced. 

 Anellus a narrow curved band with broad, curved, 

 bandlike lateral projections (clasping the sides of 

 aedeagus). Aedeagus stout, somewhat bent; penis 

 armed with numerous sclerotized folds and two or three 

 stout, very short, thornlike spine clusters. Vinculum 



stout, as broad as long, bluntly triangulate; terminal 

 margin reinforced and broadly rounded. 



Female genitalia with bursa copulatrix large and 

 elongate, finely scobiaate over surface of anterior half, 

 thickened and partially sclerotized at junction with 

 ductus biursae; signimi present as a sclerotized cup 

 evenly covered with short, stout, blunt spines; ductus 

 bursae very short, a mere neck between genital opening 

 and bursa; genital opening with a curled-over, strongly 

 sclerotized and centrally emarginate lower margin; 

 ductus seminalis from a lobe of bursa near its junction 

 with ductus bursae. 



In genitaUa this genus resembles the Hemiptiolocera- 

 Crocidomera complex of group I with which it is appar- 

 ently related. It is even more nearly related to the 

 genus following (Gennadius) which also has the cell of 

 forewing open and (except for specific differences) sim- 

 ilar male genitalia. However, Farnobia is so different 

 in venational characters that it need not be confused 

 with anything else in the Phycitidae. The forewing 

 venation might be interpreted differently from what 

 I indicate (i. e., vein 4 rather than 3 absent and 3 and 

 5 short stalked) ; but in view of the outward position 

 of 2 and the close association of Farnobia with 

 Gennadius (which has 2 and 3 distinctly stalked) the 

 correct interpretation appears to be 2 and 3 united. 



569. Farnobia quadripuncta (Zeller), new combination 

 FiatTBEs 98, 99, 586, 1070 



Euzophera quadripunda ZeUer, Horae Soc. Ent. Rossicae, vol. 16, 

 p. 226. 



Dannemora quadripuncta (Zeller) Hampson, in Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 2, p. 209, 1901. 



Forewing brown with a purplish tint; the costal area 

 dusted with ocherous gray, this pale shading extending 

 into the cell at middle; antemedial line obscure, blackish, 

 dentate and outwardly oblique from costa to inner mar- 

 gin; sub terminal line better defined, blackish, sharply 

 dentate at the veins; three rather conspicuous blacMsh 

 dots forming an angle near extremity of cell and, in some 

 specimens, traces of a fourth dot on costa marking be- 

 ginning of antemedial line. Hind wings whitish, semi- 

 hyaline, with a narrow dark line along termen and dark 

 shading on some of the veins. On the underside of the 

 male hind wing the costal area is filled with coarse 

 ocherous scaling terminating in a blackish fuscous patch 

 at the outer angle of the lobe. Alar expanse, 21-24 mm. 



Genitalia as given for the genus. 



Type locality: Honda, Colombia (type in B. M). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Costa Rica: Esperanza (May). 

 PanamA: La Chorrera (May), Cabima (May). French 

 Guiana: St. Laurent du Maroni. Colombia: Honda. 

 Also recorded by Hampson from Brazil. 



When Hampson placed quadripuncta in Dannemora 

 he had only females of Zeller's species and no authentic 

 examples of the type of Hidst's genus. The two species 

 have very little in common, structurally or otherwise. 



