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dates: June 20, 1925 (1 specimen); May 29, 1926 (24 specimens); 

 June 25, 1927 (4 specimens); July 19, 1927 (4 specimens). Butte 

 County is near Lake and Shasta Counties in northern California. I 

 have not seen the 9 of laticapitanus. 



Walsingham placed his original description of laticapitanus directly 

 beneath that of his new genus. Pseud oconchylis, and it is to be assumed 

 that he intended the former to be the type species of the latter. It 

 is interesting to note that he originally placed them in the Tortricidae, 

 subfamily Conchjdinae. In Dyar's list of 1903, they also appeared 

 in the Tortricidae, but in the subfamily Phaloniinae. Busck (1907) 

 stated: "Pseudoconchylis Walsingham does not belong in the Phalo- 

 niinae where it was originally placed and has since been retained in 

 our lists. It is a genus of the Tineidae." 



This subspecies has a synonym in unistriganus of which Dyar's 

 original description follows: 



Phalonia unistrigana — Wings elongate and rounded, palpi short. Ground 

 color white, over-washed on the fore wings irregularly with faint ocherous, the 

 white remaining in patches in and below cell, on internal margin and in a transverse 

 band at outer third of wing. A narrow, broken, oblique black-brown line, directed 

 from middle of inner margin to outer third of costa, not reaching inner margin, 

 broken centrally, the lower part forming a rounded bar, the upper part more 

 diffuse; a series of diffuse, irregular, dark dots in apical portion, in some specimens 

 confined to apical margin, in others spread as far as tornus and situated on white 

 ground color. Hind wing dark gray, fringe paler except at anal angle. Expanse, 

 18-22 mm. 



Three 99, June 9 (Williams, Arizona, Schwarz and Barber). Also a male 

 from Flagstaff, Arizona. (Schwarz and Barber). 



Type.— No. 6741, U.S. National Museum. 



Remarks. — After transferring Pseudoconchylis from the Tortri- 

 cidae to the Tineidae, Busck (1907) stated: 



Phalonia unistrigana Dyar is also a tineid and belongs to this genus. It is ex- 

 ceedingly close to if not identical with laticapitana, Walsingham; but considering 

 the different localities it will be safer to retain it as distinct specifically until more 

 material is at hand or the life history is worked out. 



The specimens mentioned above by Dyar are at the U.S. National 

 Museum. The holotype is a 9 lacking both head and abdomen and 

 thus can not be positively associated with any cf of the several sub- 

 species of the laticapitanus complex. However, of Dyar's two remain- 

 ing "9 cotypes," one is actually a cf . Its genitalia, removed and 

 mounted on a slide by August Busck on Oct. 8, 1933, show it to be 

 laticapitanus. Examination of the genitalia of Dyar's single cT from 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, showed it to be laticapitanus, also. Both of these 

 cTcf have the typical double ring of scales on each antennal segment. 

 Several U.S. National Museum slides of cf genitalia labeled "uni- 

 striganus" also proved to be laticapitanus. 



