NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 21 



represents a population of pueHella; however, evidence to support 

 this hypothesis is lacking. 



Lita dialis, new species 



Figures 18, 83, 132, 185, 186 



Maculation: as in figiu-e 18. Head: tongue buff; maxillary palpus 

 pale buff, folded over base of tongue; labial palpus white, apex of 

 third segment tinged with yellow brown; scape and base of antenna 

 buff, shaft greasy buff brown apically; frons, vertex, and occiput pale 

 buff. Thorax: buff white. Forewing: buff white to buff, dark 

 spot brown, cilia buff white. Hindwing: shining pale fuscous, veins 

 darker and tinged with yellow gray, cilia buff. Legs brown with 

 scale bases pale brown to white; a white fascia at middle and apex of 

 each tibia, dorsal tuft on metathoracic tibia off white, apices of first 

 three or four tarsal segments and base of basitarsi white. Abdomen: 

 terga greasy ocher, paler on basal terga, apices of terga pale; sterna 

 greasy brown, apices of segments greasy buff, many scales with buff 

 lines. Alar expanse: 17.5-20.0 mm. Male genitaha: as in figiu-e 83 

 (J.F.G.C. slide 10208). Apex of flange of aedeagus tapermg to blunt 

 tip. Female genitaha: as m figiu-e 132 (RWH shde 2603). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Male, Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz., March (RWH slide 

 2602), USNM type 67646. 



Paratypes: 



Arizona: Southern Arizona, Icf, USNM; Wickenburg, 1?, May 20, 1957, 

 Sperry, USNM. New Mexico: Carlsbad, Eddy Co., 2d^, May 17, 1950, E. C. 

 Johnston (RWH slide 2603), CNC. Texas: Alpine, 5000-8000 ft., 4cr, April- 

 July, AFB; Brewster Co., 5000 ft., 7cf, 2?, 4.26, BMNH, USNM; no fur- 

 ther locality, Id', May 19, 1953, O. J. Robertson (JFGC slide 10208), USNM. 

 Mexico: Durango, La Resolana, Id', Feb. 21, 1953, E. I. Schlinger, UCB. 



Discussion : L, dialis is similar in appearance to deoia and puertella 

 but differs from them in lacking fronto vertical processes. Individual 

 specimens differ in the amount of brown scaling so that the moths 

 appear pale buff to gray brown. 



Lita pagella, new species 



Figure 19, 20, 84, 145, 187, 188 



Maculation: as in figures 19 and 20. Head: tongue buff brown 

 to brown laterally, some pale buff scales medially; maxillary palpus 

 pale buff, folded over base of tongue; first segment of labial palpus 

 white on inner surface, outer surface white basally, brown from 

 middle to apex, pale buff on ventrodistal portion, second segment 

 buff white to white with scattered brown scales, third segment mainly 



