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wings dark fuscous with paler cilia. Abdomen reddish brown. Legs (PI. 8, D) light 
reddish, with black annulations on tarsi and tibiae. 
Male genitalia (PI. 8, E) weakly chitinized; harpes paddle-shaped, strongly haired; 
margins with row of weak curved spines; sacculus small, slightly haired; tegumen 
evenly chitinized; uncus moderately long, tapering to a sharp point; aedoeagus long, 
slender, spined; inclosing the harpes ventrally is a large heart-shaped, long-haired, 
chitinized envelope. 
Alar expanse 9 to 12 mm. 
Full-grown larva. —The full-grown larva is 7 to 8 mm. long, cylindrical, deep 
wine red. Head light brown, with blackish trophi. Thoracic shield broad, undi¬ 
vided, strongly chitinized, dark brown. Anal plate light brown. Tubercles small, 
whitish, bearing long, light-brown setae. Crotches of abdominal feet 20 to 24 in 
complete circe (PI. 10, C). 
Pupa. —The pupa (PI. 12, E t F) is 7 to 8 mm. long, light yellowish brown, smooth, 
with four short setae on the vertex and six short setae on the first thoracic segment; 
two short, paired setae near the spiracles and four short hooked setae dorsally on fifth 
to ninth abdominal segments, two anterior and two posterior on each joint. Anal 
opening large, slitlike, surrounded by about twelve long, hooked setae; no cremaster 
developed; tip of abdomen bluntly rounded, armed with four long and four shorter 
strong, hooked setae. Fronto-clypeal suture distinct and abruptly curved upward 
near median line. Clypeus and pupal eyes distinctly indicated, labrum and man¬ 
dibles less so; antennae close together at their tip, reaching nearly to the tips of the 
wings; wings reaching to posterior edge of sixth abdominal segment. Spiracles 
small, normal. 
SYNONYMY OF PYRODERCES RIEEYI WAESINGHAM 
Batrachedra rileyi Walsingham (41, 45). 
Batrachedra rileyi Howard (42, 43). 
Batrachedra rileyi Dyar (44). 
Batrachedra rileyi Swezey (46). 
Pyroderces rileyi Durrant (47). 
Batrachedra rileyi Chittenden (48). 
LITERATURE CITED 
PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA 
(1) Saunders, W. W. 
1843. Description of a species of moth destructive to the cotton crops in India. 
In Trans. Ent. Soc. London, v. 3, p. 284-285. 
Original description under the name “ Depressaria gossypiella ,” and account of damage 
done to American cotton grown on light alluvial soil at Broach, India. 
(2) 
1851. 
Upon the insects injurious to the cotton plant. (Abstract.) In Zoologist, 
v. 9, p. 3069-3071. 
Page 3070: Depressaria gossypiella mentioned as very destructive to American cotton 
grown in India, but seldom attacking the native cotton. 
(3) Cotes, E. C., and Swinhoe, C. 
1889. A Catalogue of the Moths of India, pt. 6. Calcutta. 
Page 716, species 4900: Record, as Depressaria gossypiella , of its occurrence in India. 
(4) Cotes, E. C. 
1893. A conspectus of the insects which affect crops in India. In Indian Mus. 
Notes, v. 2, no. 6, p. 145-176. 
Page 163, no. 148: Record of Depressaria gossypiella among insect pests of India; 
quotation from Saunders (1). 
(5) VOSSELER, J. 
1904. Einige Feinde der Baumwpllkulturen in Deutsch-Ostafrika. In Mitt. 
Biol. Landw. Inst. Amani, No. 18, 4 p. 
Preliminary account of Gelechia sp. in German East Africa. Gives life history, states 
that the larva leaves the boll for pupation, and recommends light traps, without, how¬ 
ever, having tried them. 
