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Texas: Brownsville, $ (no data or collector) ; Kerrville, 5 5 5,5 (April to 

 August dates, F. C. Pratt); San Benito, $ and $ (March 16-23; Sept. 

 8-15) ; Victoria, 5 ("3-20," E. A. Schwarz). 



Remarks. — This species and sparsiciUella are the only two de- 

 scribed species of this genus with white or whitish ground color. 

 The black markings of sparsiciUella will immediately distinguish it 

 from cretacea. 



INGA OBSCUROMACULELLA (Chambers), new combination 



Plate 21, Figubes 126, 126a ; Plate 39, Figure 206 



CryptolecMa ohscuromacuJella Chambees, U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr. Bull. 

 4, p. 86, 1878. — RiXEY, in Smith, List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 5220, 1891.— BuscK, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, No. 5848, 1903.— 

 Kearfott, in Smith, Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 

 6388, 1908.— BuscK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p. 195, 1908.— Barnes and 

 McDuNNoxjGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, No. 6418, 

 1917. 

 Ma-chimia ohscuromaculella (Chambers) MinrBicK, in Wytsman, Genera insec- 

 torum, fasc. 180, p. 82, 1922. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera 

 of Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), 

 No. 8385, 1939. 

 Labial palpus, face, and head whitish ochreous to ochreous. Bnsal 

 three-fifths of second segment of palpus and front around eyes fus- 

 cous. Antenna whitish ochreous annulated with fuscous. Thorax 

 and fore wing ochreous strongly irrorated with fuscous; first and 

 second discal spots fuscous ; an indistinct, outwardly curved subtermi- 

 nal row of small fuscous spots. Hind wing grayish fuscous. Legs 

 fuscous. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe moderately narrow; cucullus bluntly 

 pointed; clasper slender, slightly dilated and clothed with fine spines 

 distally, reaching slightly beyond costa. Anellus broad with a deep 

 V-shaped, median excavation, and a large spatulate process from the 

 dorsoposterior margin; the latter broader distally than proximally; 

 lateral lobes small. Aedeagus long, slender, pointed; vesica armed 

 with a large patch of fine cornuti and a long, strongly sclerotized, 

 irregularly shaped band. Lateral lobes of transtilla moderately 

 large, hairy. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate membranous. Ostium moderately 

 large. Ductus bursae membranous with a narrow sclerotized ring 

 before ostium. Inception of ductus seminalis well before ostium. 

 Bursa copulatrix large, oval with a minute, round signum. 

 Alar expanse, 14-15 mm. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 

 Type locality. — Basque County, Tex. 



