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Distribution: Arizona: South Fork of Cave Creek, Chiricahua 

 Mts. (July) ; Madera Canyon, 4880 ft., Santa Kita Mts. (July). 



Described from the male holotype, July 4, 1939, collected by A. F. 

 Braun, South Fork Cave Creek, Chiricahua Mts., Arizona; one male 

 paratype, July 17, 1959, and four female paratypes, July 18, 19, 20, 

 25, 1959, collected by Konald W. Hodges, Madera Canyon, 4880 ft., 

 Santa Rita Mts., Arizona. 



This species is nearest A. haesitans, but it is readily separable by 

 the vinculum produced into a dorsally projecting process in front 

 in the male genitaUa and by the pouchlike evagination of the ostium 

 bursae in the female genitalia. 



14. Antaeolricha vestalis (Zeller) 



Figures 9, 9a, 36; Plate 3b; Map 7 

 Cryptolechia vestalis Zeller, 1873, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 23, p. 247. 

 Ide vestalis Walsingham, 1889, Insect Life, vol. 2, p. 155. 

 Stenoma vestalis Barnes and Busck, 1920, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lep. North America, 



vol. 4, p. 238. — Meyrick, 1922, in Genera insectorum, vol. 180, p. 82. 

 Antaeolricha vestalis Busck, 1934, in Lepidopterorum catalogus, vol. 67, p. 30. 



Alar expanse 15-21 mm. 



Color: Face white; palpus white with dusky scales on exterior 

 sides in male. Legs white sprinkled with dusky scales. Thorax 

 white dorsally. Abdomen white. Forewing white, costal edge 

 slightly ochreous. Hindwing white; cilia white. 



Male genitalia: Uncus curved, dilated at tip; gnathos large, divided 

 into two distinct, sharp-pointed lobes; harpes as in A. schlaegeri; 

 anellus with four lobes, ventral ones small and thumblike, bearing 

 several setae at their apex, dorsal ones larger, blunter, bearing num- 

 erous heavy setae. Aedeagus long, rounded at apex; cornuti absent. 



Female genitalia: Genital plate without distinct division into 

 lamella ante vaginalis and lamella post vaginalis, ostium bursae small, 

 opening near center of genital plate; ductus bursae long, membranous; 

 corpus bursae with small, dentate signum ; inception of ductus seminalis 

 near ostium. 



Type: In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. 



Type locality : Texas (C. vestalis) . 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Florida: Lake Placid (April, Dec); Florida City 

 (March) ; Royal Palm State Park (March, Sept.) ; Everglades (April) ; 

 Fort Myers (April); Marco (April); St. Petersburg (Oct.); Paradise 

 Key (March); Lakeland (March); Miami; Panacea (Aug., Oct.); 

 Altamont; Glen wood. Georgia: Billy's Island, Okefenokee Swamp 

 (June, July); Spring Creek (July). Mississippi: Ocean Springs 



