THE CACTUS-FEEDING PHYCITINAE — HEINRICH 



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FEMALES 



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1. Maxillary palpi squamous or flamboyant 2 



Maxillary palpi filiform 16 



2. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 connate (rarely very shortly stalked) 3 



Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 definitely stalked 5 



3. Hind wing with veins 7 and 8 approximate; antenna bipectinate 4 



Hind wing with veins 7 and 8 shortly anastomosed ; antenna 



pubescent 3. Olyca Walker 



4. Bursa without signum 1. Melitara Walker 



Bursa with signum 2. Olycella Dyar 



5. Labial palpus porrect 6 



Labial palpus obliquely ascending 16. Ozamia Ragonot 



Maxillary palpi flamboyant 14. Sigelgaita, new genus 



Maxillary palpi squamous 7 



Bursa with signum 8 



Bursa without signum 13 



Signum a small, shortly spined plate 9. Yosemitia Ragonot 



Signum otherwise 9 



9. Ductus seminalis from middle of bursa copulatrix — 4. Alberada, new genus 

 Ductus seminalis from bursa near or at junction of bursa and 



ductus bursae 10 



Ductus seminalis from bursa at junction of bursae and ductus 



bursae, remote from signum 6. Cactoblastis Ragonot 



Ductus seminalis from bursa near (but not at) junction of 



bursa and ductus bursae, more or less approximate to signum 11 



Habitat, South America 10. Tucumania Dyar 



Habitat, southwestern part of United States and northern Mexico 12 



12. Dark markings on fore wing longitudinal ; no discal spot. 



7, Cahela, new genus 

 Dark markings on fore wing transverse (at least in part) ; discal 



spot prominent 8. Rumatha, new genus 



13. Ductus seminalis from ductus bursae 11. Eremberga, new genus 



Ductus seminalis from middle or from near end of bursa copulatrix 14 



14. Bursa copulatrix large 15. Amalafrida, new genua 



Bursa copulatrix small 15 



15. Ductus bursae finely scobinate at genital opening 5. Nanaia, new genus 



Ductus bursae smooth at genital opening 12. Salambona, new genus 



16. Labial palpus oblique; bursa copulatrix large, without signum. 



17. Cactobrosis Dyar 

 Labial palpus porrect; bursa copulatrix small, with signum. 



18. Zophodia Hiibner 



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LIST OF GENERA AND SPECIES 



Melitara Walker 



1. prodenialis Walker 



2. dentata (Grote) 

 Olycella Dyar 



1. junctolineella (Hulst) 



2. junctolineella pectinatella 



(Hampson) 



3. nephelepasa (Dyar) 



4. suMmhrella (Dyar) 



3. Olyca Walker 



1. pliryganoides Walker 



4. Alberada, new genus 



1. paraiates (Dyar) 



2. bidentella (Dyar) 



3. holochlora (Dyar) 



5. Nanaia, new genus 



1. substituta, new species 



