NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE HODGES 25 



anterior surface buff white; femur white on outer surface, pale brown 

 medially, gray white on edges; tibia pale brown with a gray white 

 fascia at three-fifths, apex gray white; tarsus brown, base and apex 

 of basitarsus and apex of second segment white. Mesothoracic leg: 

 absent on type. Metathoracic leg: coxa and femiu" buff to buff white, 

 many scales streaked with gray, trochanter nearly white; tibia white 

 with a faint streak of orange-brown scales at one-foiu-th and another 

 at four-fifths; tarsus white to gray brown depending upon angle of 

 light incidence, ventral surface orange brown basally, brown distally, 

 apices of segments pale. Abdomen: not observed before dissection 

 was made. Alar expanse: 17 mm. Male genitaha: as in figure 88 

 (RWH sHde 2885). Female genitalia: no specimens available. 



Food plant: Unloiown. 



Type: Male, Dixieland, Imperial Co., Calif., Mar. 15-30, 1922, 

 O. C. PoUng (RWH slide 2885). USNM type 67648. 



Discussion: L. veledae may be distinguished from ohnuhila by having 

 the inner surface of the second segment of the labial palpus pure 

 white and by having the apices of the valvae ellipsoidal. In many 

 superficial respects veledae is similar to maenadis but differs in having 

 the base of the shaft of the antenna unicolorous, whereas that of 

 maenadis is brown and white. 



All of the characters examined and used to separate veledae and 

 maenadis may be indicative of nothing more than the two sexes of a 

 species or of two semiseparate populations of a species; however, 

 without further knowledge based on more specimens (and preferably 

 reared series) of either, I am recognizing two entities. 



Lita rectistrigella (Barnes and Busck) 



Figures 24, 72, 144, 193, 194 



Gelechia rectistrigella Barnes and Busck, 1920, Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. America, 



vol. 4, p. 229. 

 Lita rectistrigella.— Busck, 1939, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 573. 



Maculation: as in figure 24. Head: tongue gray white basally: 

 maxiUary palpus pale buff, folded over base of tongue; labial palpus 

 gray white, liberally dusted with brown; scape of antenna dark brown, 

 shaft ocherous basally becoming brown distally in male, gray white 

 interspersed with brown basally becoming brown distally in female, 

 sensory areas of male usually covering one-half to nearly all of 

 ventral surface of one-half of each segment basally; frons gray white; 

 vertex and occiput buff. Thorax: gray white overlaid with brown. 

 Forewing: streaks of gray white between brown on veins, outer mar- 

 gin with dark brown at ends of veins; scales of cilia gray white, apex 

 of each scale pale brown. Hindwing: fuscous, cilia buff. Legs: 



