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strigella have a single row of heavy setae in this position. The series 

 of specimens from Utah tends to be relatively uniform in hue, whereas 

 the specimens from Colorado and California are generally darker, 

 often having white areas replaced by pale buff ones. 



Lita texanella (Chambers) 



Figures 28, 29, 76, 148, 199, 200 



Anesychia texanella Chambers, 1880, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, 



p. 179. 

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



Maculation: as in figures 28 and 29. Head: tongue with a few 

 white scales at base, scales elsewhere pale basally becoming dark 

 brown medially; maxillary palpus white (some scales brown tipped), 

 folded over base of tongue; labial palpus, scales of first segment gray 

 brown basally, dark brown apically, second and third segments white 

 with heavy dusting of dark brown scales; scales of scape of antenna 

 buff with brown tips, shaft yellow orange (cf), buff white with scat- 

 tered brown scales basally, becoming brown distally ( 9 ) ; scales of 

 frons pale gray white with pale brown apices, scales of vertex and 

 occiput buff white with brown apices. Scales of thorax and forewing 

 buff white with brown apices and medial streaks, dark marks on 

 forewing formed by scales with broad bro\vn borders, scales of cilia 

 lack medial dark markings. Hindwing: fuscous, cilia buff. Pro- 

 thoracic leg: coxa white with a few dark scales laterally, anteromedially 

 dark brown, apex buff white; scales of femur, tibia, and tarsus dark 

 brown apically, paler basally, apices of first and second tarsal segments 

 pale. Mesothoracic leg: much as for prothoracic one. Metathoracic 

 leg : paler than prothoracic leg, dorsal tuft on tibia pale buff. Abdomen : 

 ocherous dorsally, segments pale apically, ventral surface pale brown, 

 segments lighter apically. Alar expanse: 21-27 mm. Male genitalia: 

 as in figure 76 (RWH slide 2569). Apex of heavily sclerotized flange 

 of aedeagus blunt. Female genitalia: as in figure 148 (RWH slide 

 3148). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Lectotype, present designation, male, bearing followinglabels: 

 Type, 1424; 12/4; Chambers, Ken t uck y; Anesychia texanella, Texas- 

 Cham. ; Lectotype by R. W. Hodges. MCZ. 



Specimens examined: 



UNITED STATES, Texas: Fort Davis, 3cf , 3.28, BMNH; KerrvUle, 2cf , 2 9 

 (AB slide Sept. 25, 1934), USNM; same locality, Icf, March 10, H. Lacey 

 (RWH slide 2569), USNM; no further locality, Icf , MCZ. 



MEXICO, NuEvo Leon: 3 mi. E Galeana, 5000 ft., 6cf, 8?, Aug. 7-9, 1963, 

 Duckworth and Davis (RWH slides 3146-3149), CNC, CU, USNM. 



Discussion: Some specimens of incicur are much like texanella on 



