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	1966	Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society	251
	A NEW SPECIES OF MOTH DESTRUCTIVE TO PINE CONES IN MEXICO (TORTRICOIDEA) William E. Miller North Central Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S.D.A., St. Paul, Minnesota1 Moth specimens sent to me for identification by the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales (Mexico) included a species of Laspeyresia that is apparently undescribed. Feeding in the cones of Mexican white pine, Pinus ayacahuite Ehrenb., its larvae reduce seed yields, thereby hindering forestation efforts. The purpose of the present paper is to name this new species. The biology of this and other Mexican seed-destroying insects is being studied by the Instituto. Laspeyresia nigra Miller, new species Length of forewing 8.0 mm. Head, face, labial palpus clothed with white-tipped black scales; collar of shiny black scales. Thorax clothed dorsally with shiny black scales; patagium similarly clothed, except posterior scales faintly lighter toward tips. Ventrally, thorax covered with shiny, dark gray scales. Front leg, tibia and tarsi of middle leg, and tarsi of hind leg clothed with dark gray scales, narrowly tipped with white; remaining leg segments with shiny, dark gray scales. Upperside of forewing (Figure la) with shiny black scales in basal fifth; white-tipped, sooty black scales in remainder, except for crossbands. Three lead-colored crossbands present, more or less bordered by black scales: basal crossband crossing wing completely; middle one extending from costa nearly across wing, constricted near center; apical one inter­mittent, following edge of wing except bending inward near costa. Costa with three small spots of lead-colored scales between apical and middle crossbands. Forewing fringe gray, a black line running along fringe base. Upperside of hindwing sooty black; fringe gray. Undersides of fore- and hindwings dark gray, almost black. Outline of valva as in Figure 2a. (Abdominal coloration not studied before abdomen was cleared and mounted on microslide.) Holotype, male: Mexico, Tlaxco, Tlaxcala (approximately 19°30/ north latitude, 98°08/ west longitude), February, 1964. The above description is based solely on the holotype male which is labeled: "En semilla P. ayacahuite, Tlaxco, Tlax., Feb. 1964; S genitalia slide 378, 5.22.64, C. D. Waddell." The holotype has been deposited in the U. S. National Mu­seum, Washington, D. C. (Type Number 67798). Besides the holotype, I studied four females from Tlaxco. All had forewings 8.0 mm. long, the same as the holotype. There was virtually no variation in external appearance among the four females and holo­type male. However, the lamella postvaginalis (Figure 2c) varied slightly in the outline of its posterior margin. Nomenclature of genital parts follows Klots (1956).
	1 The Station is maintained in cooperation with the University of Minnesota.

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	Fig. 1. Wings of Laspeyresia species; (a) L. nigra Miller, holotype; (b) L. mis­citata Heinrich.
	One of the females, with same label information as the holotype ex­cept where noted, is designated the allotype: ". . . . Die. 1963; 9 geni­talia slide 394, 7.2.64. . . ." and is in the U. S. National Museum. The adult is strikingly dark—hence the name nigra. It is most like Laspeyresia miscitata Heinrich (Figures lb and 2b, d) but is distin­guished by the following: absence of white spots along the fore wing costa; darker hindwings, particularly the fringe; more heavily sculptured
	Fig. 2, Outline of genital parts of Laspeyresia species; (a) valva of L. nigra Miller, holotype; (b) valva of L. miscitata Heinrich, holotype; (c) lamella postvagi-nalis of L. nigra; (d) lamella postvaginalis of L. miscitata.

	1966	Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society	253
	valva with less opening in proximal area; less anteriorly tapered lamella postvaginalis. Also, the aedeagus of the L. nigra holotype has 13 cornuti and is about one and a half times longer than the aedeagi of L. miscitata males examined (holotype and three paratypes) which have only 4 to 8 cornuti. The taxonomy of other North American seed-feeding Laspey-resia moths affecting pine is discussed by Heinrich (1926) and Miller (1959). The one known host of L. nigra, Mexican white pine, belongs to the Haploxylon or soft pine subgenus while the hosts of L. miscitata, Pinus ponderosa Laws, and P. jejfreyi Grev. and Balf. (Keen, 1958), are mem­bers of the Diploxylon or hard pine subgenus. Acknowledgment I am grateful to Maria Luisa Estebanes G., of Coyoacan, D. F., Mexico, for supplying data and examples of the new species. Literature Cited Heinrich, C. 1926. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 132, 216 pp. Keen, F. P. 1958. Cone and seed insects of western forest trees. U. S. Dept. Agr. Tech. Bull. 1169, 168 pp. Keots, A. B. 1956. Lepidoptera, pp. 97-111. In: Taxonomist's Glossary of Geni­talia in Insects, S. L. Tuxen, ed. 284 pp. Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen. Miller, W. E. 1959. A unique new North American species of pine-cone-feeding Laspeyresia related to L. ingens Heinrich (Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae). Flor­ida Entom., 42: 131-134.
	BUTTERFLIES OF YAKIMA COUNTY, WASHINGTON, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS E. J. Newcomer 1509 Summitview, Yakima, Washington After the "Butterflies of Yakima County, Washington" was published (Newcomer, 1964), two additional species were taken in the county. Through the cooperation of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs I was issued permits to collect on the Yakima Indian Reservation in 1964 and 1965. Much of the restricted area of the Reservation is heavily forested with Pinus ponderosa and other conifers. Collecting is not very good in heavy forest except in the occasional open meadow. Signal Peak, about 15 miles east of Mt. Adams,1 has an elevation of 5,111 feet, and above 4,800 feet much of it is open and grassy with many 1 This would place it on the map (Newcomer, 1964) about halfway between Nos. 20 and 24.