THE CACTUS-FEEDING PHYCITINAE — HEINRICH 367 



Distribution.— [JsiTESi States : Texas, Alpine (Apr.) ; New Mexico^ 

 Jemez Springs (June, July); Arizona, Yuma County (Apr.), "en 

 route from Dewey to Salome" (Apr.), Dewey (May), Mohave County 

 (March); Nevada, Clark County (March, Apr., May), Bellevue 

 (Washington County, May). 



Tliirty-eight specimens examined. 



Remarks. — This species has never been reared and its larva is un- 

 known. From its close relationship to glaucateJla we may expect that 

 its host will prove to be one of the Cylindropuntias. 



3. RUMATHA POLINGELLA (Dyar) 



Plates 27, 39, 48 ; Fiqubes 15-15c, 53, 106-106a, 107-107a 



Zophodia poUngella Dyak, Jouru. New York Eut. Soc, vol. 14, p. 31, 1906. — 

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

 no. 5713, 1917. 



Male. — Similar in appearance to that of hihinda but with trans- 

 verse antemedial and subterminal lines more distinctly continued to 

 inner margin of fore wing; indentations of subterminal line not so 

 deep as in hihinda and not extending to cell ; a scattering of pinkish 

 scales among the white scales on costal area of fore wing. 



Alar expanse, 23-34 mm. 



Genitalia (figs. 15-15c) similar to those of hihinda but with harpe 

 narrower, apex of harpe more acutely rounded, and aedeagus slightly 

 narrower in proportion to its length. 



Female. — Similar to the male except for shorter pubescence on 

 antenna. 



Alar expanse, 26-35 mm. 



Genitalia (fig. 53) essentially like those of hihinda except that the 

 sclerotized plates in genital opening are not so distinct and the 

 signum is on the average smaller. 



Type. — In United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Southern Arizona. 



Food plant. — Unknown, presumably a Gylindropuntia. 



Distrihution. — United States: Arizona, Douglas (June, Aug.), 

 Kedington, Palmerlee, Paradise (Cochise County, July, Sept.), Pinal 

 Mountains (Apr.), Baboquivari Mountains (June, July, Aug., Sept.), 

 Santa Catalina Mountains (Aug.), "southern Arizona" (Apr.). 



Seventy-one specimens examined. 



Remarks. — This species also has not been reared, and its life his- 

 tory is unknown. It is obviously distinct from hihinda but evidently 

 very close to that species and is quite similar to it in general appear- 

 ance. The characters given in the key will separate it readily 

 enough. 



