MOTHS OF THE GENUS RUPELA — HEINRICH 373 



Type locality.— Castro, Parana, Brazil (E. D. Jones). 

 Remarks. — Described from male type and one male paratype from 

 the type locality. May be recognized at once by the flanged aedeagus. 

 Female unknown. 



RUPELA SEJUNCTA. new species 

 Plate 26, Figures 14-1 4c; Plate 32, Figlre 39 



Male. — ^Wings shining white. Fore wing with veins 11 and 12 

 anastomosing; 4 and 5 connate. Hind wing with 4 and 5 connate 

 or very shortly stalked. Anal tuft white. 



Alar expanse. 28-33 mm. 



Genitalia with gnathos beaklil^e; lateral arms developed; lower 

 margin broadly rounded; apical part abruptly tapering to bluntly 

 pointed apex; apex upturned and notched; outer (under) surface 

 slightly roughened. Uncus with basal part ovoid, produced back- 

 ward (cowllike), covered with short scobinations ; apical part some- 

 what short in proportion to basal, tapering to pointed apex. Harpe 

 with narrowed cucullus; apex bluntly rounded; sacculus produced 

 into a very short spine at apex; basal projection of costa greatly 

 produced. Anellus consisting of ventral plate and unsclerotized 

 dorsal membrane; ventral plate with upper margin deeply angidate- 

 emarginate, lateral margins widely and rather deeply concave. 

 Aedeagus with apical half and extreme base greatly narrowed; 

 apical half rodlike, curved at apex; manica prominent, but weakly 

 sclerotized. 



Female. — ^^Ving color and venation as in the male. Anal tuft 

 white. 



Alar expanse, 25-30 mm. 



Genitalia with genital plate large, completely surrounding genital 

 opening, strongly sclerotized, its lateral areas granulate; lower mar- 

 gins of genital opening deeply rugose, black-brown and very strongly 

 sclerotized; at caudal margin a short, hollow, outwardly projecting 

 nipple. 



Type and faratypes. — U.S.N.M. no. 51863. Paratypes also in 

 British Museum. 



Type locality. — Harris County, Tex. (May). 



Remarhs. — Described from male type, six male and six female 

 paratypes; the paratypes distributed as follows: Texas, Han-is 

 County, one male and one female; Georgia, one male and one female; 

 Florida ("Allen Kiver to Deep Lake", April 12, 1912), one male, 

 Everglades, one female; Alabama, Selma (E. A. Schwarz, Septem- 

 ber 1880), one male; "Staten Island" ("26-VI-Ol"), one female; 

 also two males and two females from the Zeller collection (1880) 

 in the British Museum, without locality label but presumably from 

 Texas. 



