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Type locality: Taboga Island, Panamd (type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: PanamI: Cabima (May), Corozal 

 (Mar.), Porto Bello (May), Taboga Isl. (Feb.). 



607. Caudellia clara, new species 

 Figure 615 



Pattern and color of forewing much as in the two pre- 

 "ceding species except the red shading more confined to 

 «treaks along the folds and rather inconspicuous ; white 

 antemedial line and the white extension from it along 

 costa to base more strongly contrasted; general ground 

 color purplish fuscous; discal dots rather well marked 

 and set in a clear white field. Hind wing whitish; the 

 veins and a narrow line along termen pale fuscous. 

 Alar expanse, 13.5 mm. 



Male genitalia with elements of transtUla very broad 

 and completely fused with arms of transtUla; gnathos 

 terminating in an elongate, stout, blunt hook; uncus 

 broad throughout, its terminal margia straight; harpe 

 with an enlarged flattened scooplike projection from 

 base of costa; costa broadly sclerotized and slightly and 

 bluntly projecting at apex. Female unknown. 



Type locality: El Yunque, Luquillo Mts., Puerto 

 Rico (type in Cornell Univ. Coll.; paratype in USNM, 

 61393). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Described from male type and one male paratype 

 from the type locality, 1,500 to 2,000 ft., Cornell lot No. 

 795, sub. 38, Apr. 22, 1930. 



A distinct species, but in color and macula tion hardly 

 separable from declivella. However, the male genitalia 

 are distinctive and easily identify the species. 



181. Genus Microphestia Dyar 



Microphesfia Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, p. 346, 1914. 

 (Type of genus: Microphestia animalcula Dyar.) 



Tongue short (but not completely enclosed by labial 

 palpi). Antenna of female roughly scaled. Labial 

 palpus obhque, slender, reaching nearly to vertex; third 

 segment slightly shorter than second. Maxillar palpus 

 minute, filiform. Forewiag smooth; 9 veins; vein 2 

 from very near lower, outer angle of cell; 2, 3, and 5 

 slightly separated and approximately equidistant at 

 base; 4 absent; 6 from below upper angle of cell, 

 straight; 9 absent; 10 from cell, separated from 8 at 

 base. Hind wing with 2 from well before lower angle 

 of cell; 3 and 5 shortly stalked (not long stalked as 

 stated by Dyar); 7 and 8 completely anastomosed 

 beyond cell; cell one-haK the length of wing; discocellu- 

 lar vein curved. 



Female genitalia with ductus bursae sclerotized for 

 most of its length from genital opening, the sclerotized 

 area flattened; a triangulate, projecting, sclerotized 

 shield behind genital opening. 



The above diagnosis is incomplete, as the male is 

 unknown. The genus is doubtfiJly distinct from 



Caudellia. It is distiaguished from the latter chiefly 

 by its reduced tongue and the small size of its type, 8 

 mm. 



608. Microphestia animalcula Dyar 

 Figure 1114 



Microphestia animalcula Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, 

 p. 346, 1914. 



Forewing unicolorous, dark glossy brown; under 

 magnification the faintest indication of a thin, pale, 

 oblique antemedial line ; no other markings. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous. Alar expanse, 8 mm. 



Female genitalia having bursa without signum; 

 ductus bursae no longer than bursa; ductus seminalis 

 from approximately middle of bursa. 



Type locality: Rio Trinidad, Panamd (Mar.; type 

 in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Known only from the unique female type. 



182. Sosipatra, new genus 



Type of genus: Ephestia rUeyella Ragonot 

 Characters of Caudellia except: Shaft of male antenna 

 simple; labial palpus oblique or erect; apical process of 

 gnathos enlarged (broadened), undivided, knobbed or 

 looped; harpe with apex of costa produced as short 

 spine at apex, or apex of costa and cucullus upturned; 

 transtiUa complete, an angulate bridge entirely free of 

 gnathos; ductus seminalis from bursa copulatrix near 

 its junction with ductus bursae; eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment of male with compound dorsal tufts or simple. In 

 the hind wing, veins 3 and 5 are either connate or 

 shortly stalked. Signum, when present, a single, blunt, 

 thornhke disc, adjacent to ductus seminalis. 



The new genus brings together a group of American 

 species having a consistent female character in the 

 position of ductus seminalis in relation to the bursa and 

 a male character in the broadened apical process of 

 gnathos. On the harpe and the eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment of the male it divides into two groups as follows: 



Harpe with costa produced at apex into a short spine; eighth 

 abdominal segment of male with compound tufts. 



Harpe with apex of costa and cucuEus upturned; eighth ab- 

 dominal segment of male simple. 



Genus Sosipatra, Species 609-612: S. rileyella to 

 S. thurberiae 



[Harpe with costa produced at apex into a short spine; eighth 

 abdominal segment of male with compound tufts.] 



609. Sosipatra rileyella (Ragonot), new combination 

 Figures 616, 1105 



Ephestia rileyella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 17, 1887. — 

 Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 198, 1890. — Hampson, in 

 Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 294, 1901. — Richards and 

 Thomson, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 80, p. 182, 1932. — 

 McDunnough, Check Ust, No. 6400, 1939. 



Forewing cream white very sparsely sprinkled with 

 black scales; costal edge for half the distance from base 



