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Para types: 



Arizona: Pena Blanca Canyon, Santa Cruz Co., 2cf, 1?, Aug. 7-Sept. 4, 

 1959, R. W. Hodges (RWH slides 721, 941, and 1245; RWH wing slides 76 and 

 79), CU, USNM. 



Discussion: The metallic lead-colored scales on the vertex and 

 occiput will separate basilica from snellenella, liguritrix, and egena. 



Neodactylota egena, new species 



Figures 41, 156 



Maculation: as in figure 41. Head: tongue pale buff; maxillary 

 palpus pale bufiF, porrect to drooping along base of tongue; labial 

 palpus pale buff to pale yellow, third segment with brown scales; scape 

 of antenna buff with overlay of brown tipped scales, segments of shaft 

 bicolored basally, pale buff and brown, mainly brown distally; frons 

 pale buff; vertex and occiput gray buff with purple reflections medially, 

 a tuft of orange scales above eye. Thorax: gray brown, scale bases 

 pale, caudolateral margins buff. Forewing: nearly uniform gray 

 brown, scale bases pale; marks on disk brown, not strongly contrasting 

 with gray-brown background; ciUa buff. Hindwing: fuscous. Pro- 

 thoracic leg: coxa pale buff; femur, tibia, and tarsus gray brown ; femur 

 with numerous pale buff scales; tibia with apex and some scattered 

 scale rows pale buff; base and apex of basi tarsus and apex of second 

 tarsal segment pale buff. Meso thoracic leg: much as for pro thoracic 

 leg but with more pale scales. Metathoracic leg: coxa buff white; 

 femur buff white with some gray scales; tibia pale brown ventro- 

 laterally, dorsal tuft pale bufiF, a fascia at base of first pair of spurs and 

 apex pale bufiF; tarsus pale brown basally becoming darker distally, 

 dorsal surface of basitarsus and part of second segment pale bufiF, 

 apices of segments pale. Abdomen: not observed before dissection 

 was made. Alar expanse: 10.5 mm. Male genitalia: no specimens 

 available. Female genitaUa: as in figure 156 (RWH slide 1532). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Female, Madera Canyon, 4880 ft., Santa Rita Mtns., Ariz. 

 Oct. 19, 1959, R. W. Hodges (RWH slide 1532), CU type 4221. 



Discussion: The small size immediately separates egena from 

 snellenella; the relative indistinctness of the dark spots of the forewings 

 separates it from basilica and liguritrix. 



Eudactylota Walsingham 



Eudactylota Walsingham, 1911, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana, vol. 42 (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4), p. 54. 



Type-species: Neodactylota barberella Busck, 1903, original desig- 

 nation. 



