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basal joint with long black pecten. Face and head light reddish brown with some 

 pale iridescent scales Thorax reddish brown with a sprinkling of black around the 

 , C pr£nf P l a ^ a ^T* ha 5 h & ht f br ° Wn ,' unm , ottle d- Forewings darker brown with a 

 Xrt tw5 ' lU ; define f black spots along the costal edge from base to apical fourth, 

 where there is a larger dash of light ocherous brown; dorsal edge and apical part of 

 wing suffused with darker blackish brown; the middle of thl wing is Legularlv 

 sprinkled with blackish scales and contains on the cell an ill-defined, round, bfackish 

 spot sometimes divided into an upper and lower spot; there is also a smaller spot on 



Sri?Snn°ln r« ; I pa - em of - the ^ V 5 rather va « ue and there is considerable 

 Sffmi^fT specimens, m many there is an ill-defined blackish fascia at 



not IS ?L be f01 ' e ?5 llg ¥ COstal d * sh \ but m other specimens this fascia is 

 not present and the round dorsal spot is dissolved into several smaller spots Cilia 



Fig 9.-Pink bollworm: A, right hind leg. B, genitalia of male: «, Uncus- t teeumi»n- h h a ,„- „ 

 sedceagus; s sacculus. C, genitalia of female: o, Ovipositor- p genita 1 nlate witf , SJ'i 1 P -' a > 

 db, ductus bursse; ds, ductus seminalis; 6c, bursa copulatrix (Buslk ) g ta V enm & 



ight ocherous brown, streaked with blackish. Hindwings dark fuscous somewhat 

 "descent, hghtest toward base; cilia ocherous, terminal and apical parts Effused 

 vith dark fuscous: vein lc with long, ocherous fuscous hairs on the upper side 

 Vbdomen flattened and ocherous above, dark brown laterally with underside \Yiff used 

 vi h black and with ocherous scaling at the joints. Legs (fig. 9, A] FvESSh uscous 

 nth narrow ocherous annulations at the joints. Thl abdomen is very simdar v 

 haped in the male and in the female and it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish the 

 exes, eyen in living moths without dissection or by examination of the frenulum 

 he male genitalia (fig. 9, B) are remarkably small in proportion to the size ofthe 

 pecies: harpes narrow at base, _ broadening towards tip tip strongly haired a 

 luster of long heavy straight spines from inner side, well within the tip sacculus 

 rmed on its edge with a row of stout spines; uncus moderately long, broSd at base 

 n^rV ^ P f olnt - la t? rall y heavily haired; .edceagus short, stout g with a termfnai 

 ook. In the female the ovipositor is weakly chitinized, covered with stiff hahs 



