NO. 3547 NE ARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 13 



extralimital species. It is an extremely variable species in maculation ; 

 some specimens are immaculate; others are well marked as is shown in 

 figure 2. 



Lita variabilis (Busck) 



Figures 3-7, 68-70, 146, 151, 173, 174 



Gelechia variabilis Busck, 1903, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 871. 

 Lita variabilis.— 'Qu^ck, 1939, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 573. 



Maculation: as in figures 3-7. Head: base of tongue white medially, 

 brown laterally and distally; maxillary palpus white to buff white, 

 folded over base of tongue; labial palpus with first segment pale 

 brown, second segment white with scattered pale brown scales, third 

 segment shghtly darker than second with more brown scales; scape 

 of antenna ocherous brown, shaft ocherous brown with more yellow 

 basally than distally; frons, vertex, and occiput pale buff brown, 

 apices of scales sHghtly darker buff brown. Thorax and forewing: 

 yellow brown, scales with dark medial areas, dark areas of wing black 

 or dark brown, some red brown streaks present; ciha paler than wing, 

 first scale row black tipped, outer scale rows pale brown tipped. 

 Hindwing: fuscous, veins lightly outUned in pale reddish orange, 

 cilia buff. Pro thoracic and meso thoracic legs: coxa and femur 

 whitish laterally, brown anteromedially, tibia and tarsus brown, 

 apices slightly pale. Metathoracic leg: coxa and femur whitish with 

 some brown scales ; tibia buff gray, apices of scales pale brown, dorsal 

 tuft pale buff; tarsus brown, apices of first, second, and third segments 

 off white. Abdomen: terga ocherous, apices of terga pale, terga 3-8 

 darker than one and two; first two sterna white, caudal ones gray 

 brown. Alar expanse: 14.5-22.0 mm. Male genitaha: as in figures 

 68-70 (RWH slides 2572, 2588, and 2614). Aedeagus relatively 

 linear; heavily sclerotized flange with broad apical extension at right 

 angle with aedeagus. Female genitaha: as in figures 146 and 151 

 (RWH sMdes 2735 and 2744). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Male, USNM. 



Specimens examined: 



UNITED STATES: Arizona: Fort Valley, 7350 ft., !}{ mi. NW Flagstaff, 

 Coconino Co., 24 cf, 2?, Aug. 10-Sept. 6, 1961, R. W. Hodges (RWH slide 

 2588), CU, USNM; Hart Prairie, 8500 ft., 10 mi. NNW FlagstaflF, Coconino 

 Co., 79 cf, 18?, Aug. 11-Sept. 6, 1961, R. W. Hodges (RWH slides 2259, 2584- 

 7, 2589, 2744, and 2745), CU, USNM; Paradise, Cochise Co., 26^, Oct. 1-7, 

 USNM; Prescott, Icf, Sept. 24-30, USNM; Redington, Icf, USNM; White 

 Mountains near McNary, Apache Co., Id', Sept. 15-30, 1925, O. C. Poling, 

 USNM. California: Azusa, Los Angeles Co., 1 cT, 2 9, Oct. 12, 1939, Lloyd 

 Martin, LACM; Barton Flats, San Bernardino Co., Icf, Oct. 1, 1945, Sperry, 

 AMNH; CedarviUe, ScT, Sept. 14, 1933, Jones (AB slide Oct. 10, 1933), USNM; 



