390 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vou M 



Types. — In United States National Museum {odiosella and clare^- 

 facta) . 



Type localities. — Texas (odiosella) ; Orizaba, Mexico {dare facta) . 



Food plants. — Opuntia {Platypuntia) spp. 



Distribution. — United States: Texas., Brownsville, Victoria 

 (May), Burnet County (Oct.), Uvalde (June, July), Kerrville (May, 

 June), San Benito (Aug.). Mexico: Orizaba (Apr.), Jalapa. 



Twenty-two specimens examined. 



Remarks. — In the original description of odiosella Hulst called his 

 specimen a male and gave the type locality as Colorado. In his 1890 

 paper he gives the locality as "central Texas" and shifts the species 

 from Nephopteryx to Salehria. Wliy he ever put it in either genus 

 is a mystery; for it obviously has but seven veins in the hind 

 wing. What is presumably Hulst's original type is before me. It 

 came from the Fernald collection and bears Hulst's label : '"'Nephop- 

 teryx odiosella Hulst, Type, Tex." It is a female, as is Dyar's type 

 of clarefacta. Dyar evidently considered his name a synonym for 

 he had all the North American specimens under odiosella with clare- 

 facta placed after it. The two types are identical in genitalic struc- 

 ture, color, and markings. 



3. OZAMIA ODIOSELLA FUSCOMACULELLA (Wright), new combination 



Plates 32, 41, 50; Figures 31-31 c, 67, 130-130a 



Euzophera fnscomaculclla Wright, Ent. News, vol. 27, p. 27. 1916. — Baknes aud 

 McDuNNouGH, Check list of the Lopidoptora of Borenl America, no. 5723, 

 1917. 



Ozamia hcliophila Dyar, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, vol. 13, p. 222, 1925. 

 (New synonymy.) 



This variety is distinguished from typical odiosella only by its dis- 

 tribution, the lack of any green shading along the inner margin of the 

 fore wing (a character seen only in fresh specimens), and the char- 

 acter of the signum of the female. In ftiscomaculella the signum 

 consists of a thin, short line of minute spines. A paratype (male) 

 of fuscomaculella from the Barnes collection is before me. It agrees 

 in every detail with the male type of heliophila. 



Types. — In collection of W. S. Wright (fuscoTnaculella) ; United 

 States National Museum (heliophila). 



Type localities. — San Diego, Calif, (fuscomaculella) ; Los Angeles, 

 Calif, (heliophila). 



Food plants. — Opuntia (Platypuntia) spp. 



Distribution. — United States : California, San Diego (May, June, 

 Aug.), Los Angeles (July), Pasadena (Aug.). 



Twelve specimens examined. 



Remarks. — I was inclined to treat fuscomaculella and heliophila 

 as nothing more than synonyms of odiosella, but Mr. Dodd informs 



