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625. Ephestia figulilella Gregson 

 FiGUBES 630, 1123 



Ephestia figulilella Gregson, Entomologist, vol. 5, p. 385, 1871. — 

 Ragonot, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 22, p. 25, 1885. — Hampson 

 and Ragonot, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 282, 1901. — 

 Hulst, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 435, 1903.— Caradja, 

 Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., "Iris," vol. 24, p. 210, 1910.— Spuler, 

 DieSchmetterlinge Europas, vol. 2, p. 202, 1910. — Turati and 

 Zanon, Atti Soc. Italiana Sci. nat., vol. 61, p. 164, 1922. — 

 Keifer, Monthly BuU. Dep. Agr. California, vol. 20, p. 619, 

 1931. — Richards and Thomson, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 

 vol. 80, p. 194, 1932. — Donohoe and Barnes, Joum. Econ. 

 Ent., vol. 27, pp. 1070, 1075, 1934. — Pierce and Metcalfe, 

 Genitalia of the British Pyrales, p. 6, 1938. — McDunnough, 

 Check list, No. 6402, 1939.— Hinton, BuU. Ent. Res., vol. 

 34, p. 194, 1943. — Corbet and Tams, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, vol. 113, ser. B, p. 68, 1943. — Donohoe et al., U. S. 

 Dep. Agr. Techn. BuU. 994, pp. 1-23, 1949. 



Ephestia ficulella Barrett, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 11, p. 271, 

 1875 (emended spelUng for figulilella). — Meyrick, Proe. 

 Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 4, p. 244, 1880.— Chittenden, 

 U. S. Dep. Agr. Div. Ent. Bull. 8 (new ser.), p. 10, 1897.— 

 Meyrick, Revised hand book of British Lepidoptera, p. 388, 

 1928. 



Ephestia milleri Zeller, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., vol. 25, p. 

 339, 1876. — Druce, Biologia Centrali Americana, Lepidop- 

 tera, Heterocera, vol. 2, p. 287, 1890. 



Ephestia figuliella Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 635, 1923 (mis- 

 spelling). 



Ephestia figulella Curran, Sci. Agr., vol. 6, p. 386, 1926 (mis- 

 spelling). 



Ephestia venosella Turati, Atti Soc. Italiana Sci. Nat., vol. 65, 

 p. 58, 1926. 



Ephestia ernestinella Turati, Atti Soc. Italiana Sci. Nat., vol. 66, 

 p. 330, 1927. 



The genitalia are distinctive but there are no con- 

 sistent superficial characters for the separation oi figu- 

 lilella from cautella. 



Alar expanse, 12-17 mm. 



Male genitalia with prongs of apical process of 

 gnathos U-shaped with the base of the U flattened and 

 the prongs well separated. Harpe with a long digitate 

 projection from midcosta. TranstUla with its elements 

 broadened and touching (but not fusing) at their apices. 



Female genitalia with ductus bursae armed with a 

 spiral of short, broadly based spines; a cluster of similar 

 spines at terminal end of bursa copulatrix; a pair of 

 fan-shaped scale tufts from intersegmental area ad- 

 jacent to genital opening; signa consisting of a row of 

 a half dozen elongate, narrow discs. 



Type localities: Liverpool, England (figulilella, in 

 BM); Central America (milleri, in BM); Bengasi, 

 Cyrenaica (venosella, [?] Turati Coll.); Giarabub, 

 Cyrenaica (ernestinella, [?] Turati CoU.) . 



Food: Dried fruits, nuts, seeds, meal, beans, etc. 



Distribution: Em-ope, Asia, North and West Africa, 

 Hawaii, Austraha, North and South America. In the 

 United States it seems to have estabhshed itself only in 

 California where it is a minor pest of dried raisins, 

 though it has been intercepted at various ports of entry 

 in stored products. It is apparently less widely dis- 

 tributed and of considerably less economic importance 

 than either cautella or eluteUa. In our economic litera- 

 ture it is known as the "raisin moth," and has a growing 

 list of economic references, for which the Review of 



Applied Entomology should be consulted. Some Old 

 World references cited by Richards and Thomson (1932) 

 have been omitted from the foregoing synonymy. 



188. Genus Nicetiodes Schaus 



Nicetiodes Schaus, Zoologica (Contr. New York Zool. Soc), 

 vol. 5, No. 2, p. 48, 1923 (Type of genus: Nicetiodes 

 apianella Schaus). 



Tongue well developed. Antenna pubescent; shaft 

 of male dilated and with a shallow, ventral sinus 

 towards base; shaft of female simple. Labial palpus 

 slender, upturned, reaching slightly above vertex; third 

 segment acuminate, about half the length of second. 

 Maxillary palpus rather broadly dilated with scales on 

 female, less so on male. Porewing of male with some 

 raised scales along upper margin of ceU towards base 

 (possibly a specific character), of female smooth; 9 

 veins; vein 2 from before but near lower outer angle of 

 cell; 3 and 6 from the angle, closely approximate or 

 connate at base; 4 absent; 6 from below upper angle, 

 straight; 8 and 9 united; 10 from the cell, separate from 

 8 at base; male with a strong costal fold enclosing hair 

 tuft. Hind wing with vein 2 from very close to lower 

 outer angle of cell; 3 and 5 stalked for less than half 

 their lengths; 7 and 8 anastomosed for most of their 

 lengths beyond cell; cell about half the length of wing; 

 discoceUular vein curved. Abdomen of male with 

 compound dorsal tufts. 



Male genitalia with gnathos terminating in an en- 

 larged, angulate knob. TranstiUa complete, a narrow, 

 low-arched bridge with shght central projection. Uncus 

 narrow stemmed, abruptly expanding and flatly bilobed 

 at extremity; a short, broad scaphium projecting from 

 its base. Harpe with sacculus slightly produced at 

 extremity, otherwise simple. Anellus tubular with at- 

 tached ventral shield bearing short lateral lobes. 

 Aedeagus long, rather stout, flaring and sharply angled 

 at apex; penis with a few weakly sclerotized wrinklings, 

 otherwise unarmed. Vinculum triangulate, longer than 

 broad. 



Female genitalia with ductus bursae scobinate 

 towards bursa and narrowly sclerotized at genital open- 

 ing; signa present, consisting of a row of small sclero- 

 tized discs; ductus seminalis from bursa approximate to 

 signa. 



A distinct genus at once distinguished by its peculiar 

 uncus and gnathos and projecting sacculus. Contains 

 but one described species. 



626. Nicetiodes apianella Schaus 



FiGUBES 127, 637, 1125 



Nicetiodes apianella Schaus, Zoologica, vol. 5, No. 2, p. 48, 1923. 



Forewing blackish fuscous with a few duU whitish 

 scales at base and a shading of them smrounding dis- 

 coceUular vein and in area beyond subterminal line; 

 transverse lines white, well separated, the antemedial 

 line narrow, straight, and nearly vertical; subterminal 

 line faint, irregularly and shortly dentate, rather near 

 termen; discal dots obscure. Hind wing smoky white; 



