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44. ARCHIPS Hiibner (Tentamen) 

 (Caccecia Hiibner; Ptycholoma Stephens; Toririx, in part, etc.) 



Similar to Tortrix, with the same venation (fig. 238) and vestiture; palpi close- 

 scaled except for a little loose hair near the tip of the second joint; second joint 

 strongly upcurved (fig. 242) and concave on upper side; costal fold almost always 

 present, but in several species reduced to a tiny pointed flap which does not 

 fold over; absent in conflictana, extremely rudimentary in purpurana. R, and R-, 

 frequently short-stalked in C. rileyana, especially in the male. 



Key to the species 



1. Ground color white; marked with black 15. dissitana. 



1. Ground color not white. 



2. Streaked longitudinally with blackish between veins 13. striana. 



2. Transversely marked or spotted. 



3. A triangular pure white costal patch 14. persicana. 



3. No pure white markings. 



4.. Costa cream colored, except for a patch toward apex.. 23. melaleucanu. 

 4. Whole wing cream colored, with faint ochre reticulations and mark- 

 ings 19. negundana. 



4. Ground dark, with a quadrate or triangular cream patch beyond 

 middle of costa, and usually other patches. 

 5. Ground yellow-brown, of a mixture of contrasting brown, yellow, and 



cream scales 16. argyrospila. 



5. Ground gray-brown in broad shades 17. mortuana. 



5. Ground light red to pinkish gray, the costal spot triangular. 



18. semiferana. 

 4. No cream color on fore wing; the quadrate patch beyond middle absent, 

 or of the ochre or darker ground color, and not contrasting with 

 the general surface of the wing. 

 5. Hind wing yellow or orange, at least on costal half. 



6. Fore wing with sharply defined red-brown dots 12. rileyana. 



6. Fore wing with irregular powdery red-brown patches, or all rusty 



orange 11. cerasivorana. 



6. Fore wing with the oblique fascia bounded by fine dark striae, 



at least at costa 7. rosaceana. 



6. Fore wing with a narrower blurred dark fascia .... 2. obsoletana. 

 5. Hind wing not largely yellow or orange. 

 6. Males (frenulum simple). 



7. Costal fold absent or represented by a slight roughness and 

 curvature of the costa. 

 8. Hind wing fuscous, concolorous with fore wing. 



1. conflictana. 

 8. Hind wing pale. 



9. Fore wing reddish, with a distinct outwardly oblique ante- 

 medial line; median band complete, contrasting; subter- 

 minal band continued by a shade and stria on its inner 



side to anal angle 4. parallela. 



9. Fore wing reddish, with a dark spot at middle of costa and 



other faint markings, or immaculate 2. obsoletana. 



9. Fore wing with distinct olivaceous tint, the median hand 

 above cell, a?id subterminal spot distinct; large. 



3. zapulata. 



