NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 23 



first segment of labial palpus white on inner surface, buff brown on 

 outer surface, second and third segments buff white with scattered 

 brown scales; scape of antenna buff white lightly dusted with brown, 

 shaft greasy buff basally becoming buff brown distally; frons buff 

 white; scales of vertex and occiput buff white with pale brown apices. 

 Thorax : gray buff, scales streaked with gray, many scales with narrow 

 brown border at apex; last row of scales of tegula buff white. Fore- 

 wing: white, buff white, pale yellow, red brown, and brown; many 

 scales of cilia tipped with red brown. Hindwing: fuscous, veins 

 broadly covered with scales that appear shining orange at some angles 

 of light incidence, cUia buff. Legs: mottled buff white and brown, 

 each succeeding pair paler than the preceding one, apices of tarsal 

 segments and sometimes dorsal surfaces off white. Abdomen: 

 anterior two terga pale yellow, succeeding ones buff white; sterna 

 buff white with scattered brown scales, apices unicolorous. Alar 

 expanse: 19-23 mm. Male genitalia: as in figure 87 (RWH slide 

 3459). Apex of valva globose. Female genitalia: as in figure 135 

 (RWH slide 3460). 



Food plant: Unknown, 



Type: Male, Fort Davis, Tex., 5000 ft., 5.28 (RWH sHde 3459), 

 BMNH. 



Paratypes: 



Same data as for type, So', 19 (RWH slides 2881 and 3460), BMNH, USNM. 



Discussion: Superficially, obnuhila appears like some specimens of 

 texanella; however, the forewings of obnuhila lack distinct spots in the 

 cell; the apices of the valvae are globose, ellipsoidal in texanella; the 

 two projections on the anterior margin of the eighth sternum (fig. 189) 

 are uniformly broad to the apex, in texanella these projections taper 

 somewhat to the apex; the ratio of width of the segment bearing the 

 apophyses anteriores to the total length from the apex of the papillae 

 anales to the anterior margin of the bursa copulatrix is 1:5 in obnuhila, 

 1:7 in texanella. L. obnuhila may be separated from veledae by the 

 apices of the valvae being globose and the inner surface of the second 

 segment of the labial palpus being mottled. 



Lita maenadis, new species 



Figures 22, 133 

 Maculation: as in figure 22. Head: tongue white basally becoming 

 pale brown medially; maxiUary palpus white, folded over base of 

 tongue; inner surface of first segment of labial palpus white, scales of 

 outer surface pale buff basally, brown distally, second segment white 

 with scattered brown scales, third segment brownish, bases of scales 

 nearly white; dorsal surface of scape pale buff with brown blotches, 



