THE CAOTUS-FEEDING PHYCITINAE — HEINRICH 379 



r?/^^.— U.S.N.M. no. 62754. 



Type locality. — San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



iffemar/^5.— Described from male type dated July 26, 1930, and 

 submitted by R. C. Mundell. The specimen may haVe been reared, 

 but the label gives no food plant, and the assumption is that it was 

 merely a collected specimen. A female, collected on July 19 in the 

 same locality and sent as a presumptive female of the same species, is 

 a Tosemitia close to and closely resembling graciella. I think it is 

 undescribed alid have figured the genitalia (fig. 56), but I am not 

 naming it as the moth is in too poor condition for accurate deter- 

 mination. 



E. insignis is easily distinguished from the other two species in 

 the genus by the conspicuous discal spot on the fore wing. The 

 palpi were not figured, as they are like those of leuconips. 



12. SALAMBONA, new genus 



Genotype. — Zophodia analamprella Dyar. 



Antenna of male pubescent and slightly serrate, of female simple 

 a'nd shortly pubescent. Labial palpi of both sexes porrect with the 

 third segments downcurved, the third segment slightly longer in the 

 female than in the male. Maxillary palpus squamous. Hind wing 

 with veins 7 and 8 anastomosed for more than one-half their length 

 beyond the cell; 3 and 5 stalked. Eighth abdominal segment with 

 a pair of strong ventrolateral hair tufts. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos bifid, small; uncus 

 constricted toward apex; harpe with apex oblique; vinculum long; 

 anellus with base of plate narrowly sclerotized, arms long, curved 

 and twisted part way around aedeagus ; aedeagus long, stout. 



Female genitalia without signum or scobinations in bursa; bursa 

 small, smooth; ductus bursae long, slender, smooth; ductus seminalis 

 from near end of bursa. 



Larvae "grayish-green or blackish" (Dodd), not banded or con- 

 spicuously spotted ; solitary feeders in fruits of Platypuntia. 



Eggs laid singly. 



Remarks. — The genus is distinguished from other genera in the 

 cactus-feeding group by the following combination of characters: 

 Antenna of male serrate and pubescent; labial palpi of both sexes 

 porrect and downcurved; maxillary palpus squamous; harpe of 

 genitalia with apex oblique; vinculum long; eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment of male beating a pair of ventrolateral tufts ; bursa copulatrix 

 of female small and without signum or scobinations (smooth) ; 

 ductus seminalis from near end of bursa; larvae unhanded, dark, 

 fruit feeders in Platypimtia. 



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