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Food Plant. — ^Unknown. 



Distribution. — This species is known only from Texas. 



United States records 



Texas: Kerrville, $ (IV-12-07, F. C. Pratt) ; San Antonio, $ (June 1899, O. C. 

 Poling). 



INGA CILIELLA (Busck), new combination 



Plate 21, Figures 128, 128a; Plate 39, Figure 209 



Cryptolechia ciUella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 196, 1908.— 

 Barnes and McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, 

 No. 6423, 1917. 



Machimia ciliella (Busck) Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorura, fasc. 180, 

 p. 82, 1922; Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 471, 1928. — McDunnough, 

 Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America 

 (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), No. 8384, 1939. 



Labial palpus, head, face, thorax, and fore wing light ochreous 

 more or less suffused with fuscous scaling. Basal three-fifths of 

 labial palpus blackish fuscous. Antenna blackish fuscous narrowly 

 annulated with brown. Base of costa, first and second discal spots, 

 a poorly defined spot near middle of inner margin, and a more or 

 less well defined undulating, outwardly curved row of spots blackish 

 fuscous ; cilia concolorous with fore wing. Hind wing and cilia dark 

 fuscous; cilia with a light basal line. Legs light ochreous strongly 

 overlaid with fuscous, the fore legs more so than the others. Ab- 

 domen light ochreous suffused and irrorated with fuscous. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe very short; cucuUus small, bluntly pointed; 

 clasper large, stout, reaching beyond costa, strongly spined. Anellus 

 large, laterally produced, recurved, forming a semitubular articula- 

 tion for the aedeagus ; dorsoanterior spatulate process well developed ; 

 lateral lobes small, hairy, fleshy. Aedeagus slender, long, nearly 

 straight; dorsodistal two-fifths scobinate; vesica armed with a long 

 sclerotized band. Lateral lobes of transtilla well developed, fleshy, 

 hairy. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate membranous. Ostium large 

 round. Ductus bursae with a broad sclerotized band before 

 ostium; ductus seminalis enlarged with its inception well before 

 ostium. Bursa copulatrix with a well developed signum; inner sur- 

 face finely spiculate. 



Alar expanse, 16-23 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Ti/pe locality. — Baboquivari Mountains, Pima County, Ariz. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Distribution. — Southwestern United States. 



