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Occasionally examples of edmandsae and its variety 

 serratilineella show a vestige of vein 9 on forewing; but 

 in normal specimens the fusion of 8 and 9 beyond the 

 cell is complete, and the species obviously belongs in the 

 group with vein 9 absent. Large pale examples are 

 quite similar in habitus to Anagasta kuhniella and have 

 been confused with that species in some collections. 

 The mistake is veiy easy to make if one does not exam- 

 ine the venation of all specimens before him. In his 

 original description Packard stated that he was naming 

 the species after Miss A. M. Edmands of Cambridge. I 

 am therefore emending his name to give it the feminine 

 ending required by the International Code. 



589. Vitula edmandsae serratilineella Ragonot, new status 

 FiGUBB 1088 



Vitula serratilineella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 15, 

 1887.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 179, 1890.— 

 Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 83, 1901. — 

 Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 5, p. 104, 1903 (de- 

 scribes egg and larva) ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 6, 

 p. 158, 1904. — Hamlin and Reed, Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, 

 p. 840, 1927. — Essig, Insects of western North America, 

 p. 710, 1929.^ — Simmons, Reed, and McGregor, U. S. Dep. 

 Agr. cire. 157, p. 38, 1931. — McDunnough, Check list, No. 

 6324, 1939. 



Eccopisa serratilineella (Ragonot), Monograph, pt. 2, p. 33, 

 1901. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 560, 

 1901. 



Eccopsia serratilineella (Ragonot) Hulst, U. S. Nat. Mus. BuU. 

 52, p. 430, 1903. 



Not structurally different from typical edmandsae and 

 superficially distinguishable only by its somewhat paler 

 (more whitish) hind wings. I am keeping the name to 

 designate a western race which is of some importance 

 as a minor pest of dried stored fruits in California; but 

 it is probably not entitled even to this distinction. It 

 also attacks the honeycombs of bees in the West, but, 

 as in the Eastern States, does not seem to do any serious 

 damage to thriving bee colonies. In the literature of 

 economic entomology it is known as the "dried fruit 

 moth." Alar expanse, 14-25 mm. 



Type locality: North America (probably Southern 

 Cahfornia; type in Paris Mus.). 



Food: Honeycombs of bees, dried fruits (apples, figs, 

 raisins, prunes). 



Distribution: United States: California, Alameda 

 County (Apr.), Claremont, El Segundo (sand dunes, 

 Mar.) , Fresno (May, Jime, July, Dec.) , Humboldt, Los 

 Angeles (Apr.), Mount View (Apr.), San Diego (Apr., 

 June, July), Santa Clara County (Apr.), Santa Cruz 

 County (Feb., June); Oregon (no definite locality); 

 Washington, Pullman (Feb., Mar., May, July), Wen- 

 atchee (Aug., Sept.); Wyoming, Cody (July); Nevada, 

 Verdi (Jxme); Utah, Stockton (Sept.); Colorado, Fort 

 Collins; New Mexico, Pecos (June), Eaton (Oct.); Ari- 

 zona, Baboquivari Mts. (July). Canada: British Co- 

 lumbia, Kaslo (Aug., Sept.), Victoria (June, July), 

 Wellington (July), 



590. Vitula lugubrella (Ragonot), new"combination 



FlQUKE 607 



Hornigia lugubrella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 17, 1887. 

 Manhatta lugubrella (Ragonot) Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., 



p. 197, 1890. 

 Moodna lugubrella (Ragonot) Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, 



pt. 2, p. 270, 1901.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6395, 



1939. 



I have seen no California specimens that match 

 Ragonot's description or figure. Evidently the fore- 

 wing shows some appreciable dusting of reddish scales 

 and has the antemedial line straight and approximately 

 vertical (more or less oblique from costa to inner mar- 

 gin) . The genitalia of one of Ragonot's male paratypes 

 (from an abdomen loaned by the Paris Museum) are 

 similar to those of edmandsae except that the vinculum 

 is longer (like that of pinei) and the harpe tapering from 

 middle to a more narrowly rounded apex, as shown in 

 figure 607. 



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



Food plant: Unknown. 



591. Vitula pinei, new species 

 Figures 606, 1090 



Forewing white finely dusted with fuscous, giving the 

 wing a pale gray ground color to the naked eye; trans- 

 verse lines white bordered inwardly and outwardly by 

 sharply contrasted blackish lines; antemedial line 

 shghtly angulate; subterminal line bent inward slightly 

 for a short distance from costa, shortly and sharply angled 

 out at middle and slightly notched at lower fold; discal 

 dots fused into a black line along discoceUular vein and 

 extending (in fresh specimens) to the black inner border 

 of subterminal line; terminal dots fused into a black line 

 along termen; hair tuft enclosed by costal fold, white. 

 Hind wing whitish, semihyaline with a smoky line along 

 termen and some smoky shading on the veins. Alar 

 expanse, 19-21 mm. 



Genitalia differing in slight details from those of 

 edmandsae; vinculum longer, its terminal margin more 

 evenly rounded; hump of costa of harpe more angu- 

 late; aedeagus stouter; female genitalia considerably 

 longer and sclerotization of ductus bursae somewhat 

 more extended; comparative characters only. 



Type locality: Eureka, Utah (type in USNM, 

 61388). 



Food plant: Pine cones. 



Described from male type and one male paratype 

 from the type locality, July 14 and 17, 1911, collected 

 by Tom Spalding; and one female paratype from Baker, 

 Nev., reared by T. O. Thacher, May 28, 1940, from larva 

 feeding in cone of Pinus monophylla. The larva was 

 presumably feeding on the seeds or bracts. 



The species is easily distinguished from edmandsae by 

 the sharply contrasted black double borders of the ante- 

 medial and subterminal lines. Superficially it bears a 

 rather striking resemblance to LaetUia zamacrella Dyar. 



