Bucculatrix carolinae Braun 1963

Bucculatrix carolinae new species (Figs. 123, 123a, 123b.)
Face grayish brown, scales darker-tipped ; tuft dark brown, a few paler hairs laterally ; eye-caps small, pale grayish ocherous, antennal stalk dark fuscous, with faint paler annulations. Thorax and fore wings brownish ocherous. Fore wing darkened along costa from base to three-fifths in a gradually wideningarea, which at three-fifths passes obliquely across the wing as a line of dark scales to termen above tornus, there meeting a line of black scales bordering termen toward apex ; on costa this darkened area forms the inner margin of a triangular whitish spot ; scales along dorsum minutely dark brown-tipped ; beyond middle of fold, a short longitudinal black spot, the scales basad of it slightly paler than the general ground color, those bordering it below faintly orange-tinged ; a faint paler spot at tornus preceding the terminal line of black scales; an elongate black apical spot bordered on its inner (costal) side by whitish scales; cilia brownish ocherous around apex, shading to gray on dorsum ; a line of dark-tipped scales encircles the apex, and continues as a broken line toward tornus. Hind wings and cilia dark gray. Legs pale gray, tarsal segments whitish, conspicuously dark tipped.
Alar expanse 8.4 mm. Female genitalia (figs. 123, 123a, 123b). Segment 7 overlying the base of segment 8, the margins of its sclerotized anterior half clothed with very long slender scales, its membranous posterior half with two thin curved lobes ; sclerotized lateral margins of ostium produced as narrow branching plates; tergite of 8 specialized, two sclerotized bands joining mid-dorsally, and a median longitudinal furrow; sclerotized section of ductus bursae near ostium followed by a membranous section in which the ductus seminalis enters; signum the typical spined ring, ribs closely placed.
Type. — 9. Cherry Hill Recreation Area. Rte. 107, 2000°, Oconee County, South Carolina. Sept. 5. 1958. collected as part of a project sponsored by the American Philosophical Society ( R. W. Hodges) [Cornell U., Type Xo. 3643].
Food plant and early stages unknown.
The brownish ocherous fore wings, immaculate in the basal threefifths, characterize this easily recognized species and separate it at once from all other described Xorth American species. The lobes of the membrane of segment 7 and the specialized tergite of segment 8 are distinctive characters.

Bucculatrix carolinae is a moth in the family Bucculatricidae and was first described by Annette Frances Braun in 1963. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from South Carolina.