NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 17 



barnesiella. Of the four species that might be confused with it by 

 maculation, texanella, pagella, incicur, and geniata, the first two have 

 a plain frons. L. incicur (fig. 58) has the interior of the dorsal pro- 

 jection spinose, that of barnesiella is smooth. The dorsal and medial 

 frontal processes of geniata (fig. 62) lack separating margins; those of 

 barnesiella are separated by the strong ventral margm of the dorsal 

 process. 



Lita incicuTj new species 



Figures 9-13, 58, 78, 137, 140, 177, 178 



Maculation: as in figures 9-13. Head: tongue white to pale buff 

 basally, becoming brown subbasally; maxillary palpus off white, 

 folded over base of tongue; labial palpus, first segment with yellow 

 brown and pale brown scales, second segment white with scattered 

 yellow and pale brown scales, third segment with a mixture of white 

 and brown scales; scape of antenna buff with scattered brown scales 

 on dorsal surface, shaft greasy brown, some scales of distal half of 

 basal segments greasy buff; frontovertical processes as in figure 58; 

 frons buff white; vertex and occiput buff. Thorax; varying shades of 

 buff and buff brown. Forewing: pale buff to orange; dark markings 

 brown; cilia pale buff, apices of scales darker. Hindwing; shining 

 fuscous, veins with orange brown, cilia buif. Prothoracic leg: white 

 on posterolateral surface, pale brown with whitish scales on fronto- 

 medial surface, apex pale buff; femur brown with whitish scales; 

 tibia brown with a white fascia slightly beyond middle and another 

 at apex; tarsus brown, apices of first three and base of first segment 

 white. Mesothoracic leg: nearly as for prothoracic leg. Meta- 

 thoracic leg: tibia white with an antemedial and preapical patch of 

 brown scales. Abdomen: terga pale yeUow basally, gray brown 

 distally, apices of sterna buff white. Alar expanse: 17-27 mm. Male 

 genitalia: as in figure 78 (RWH slide 2570). Apex of flange of 

 aedeagus sickle shaped. Female genitalia: as in figures 137 and 140 

 (RWH slides 2616 and 2751). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Male, Smokey Valley, 6300 ft., Tulare Co., California, 

 Sept. 28, 1946, C. Henne (RWH slide 2610), USNM type 67643. 



Paratypes : 



California: Mammoth Lake, Inyo Co., Icf, Aug. 15, 1921, O. C. Poling, 

 USNM; Mono Pass, Inyo Co., 4(f, Aug. 13, 1957, J. Powell (RWH slides 2611 

 and 2612), UCB, USNM; Monachee Meadows, 8000 ft., Tulare Co., 2d^, Aug. 

 16-23, 1936, USNM; Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou Co., 12 d^, 13 9 , August 1871, Walsing- 

 ham, BMNH, USNM; same locality, 7d', 5?, Aug. 19, 1939, E. C. Johnston 

 (RWH slide 2571), CNC, USNM; Nevada Co., 2c?, September, CAS, USNM; 

 same locality as type, 2cf, CU, USNM; Tuolumne Meadows, Tuolumne Co., 

 1 d^, Aug. 27, 1960, W. E. Ferguson, UCB; Twin Lakes, Alpine Co., 4c?, Aug. 21, 

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