NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 43 



distance beyond base; lower portion of frons gray white, many scales 

 brown tipped medially; scales of vertex and occiput buff brown with 

 brown apices, scales of medial area of vertex gray with metallic 

 reflections. Thorax: scales gray, tipped and streaked with brown; 

 apex of tegula pale buff. Forewing: scales yellow, white, gray, buff, 

 red brown, and brown, often streaked with a light or dark hue; most 

 scales tipped with brown. Hindwing: fuscous, margins of scales 

 darker than remainder of scale, scales shining orange at some angles 

 of light incidence; cilia pale buff. Prothoracic leg: anterior surface 

 of coxa gray white, many scales tipped with brown; femur and tibia 

 brown with several gray white scales, outer surface of femur mainly 

 white, tibia with a white scale row just beyond middle and at apex; 

 tarsus dark brown, scales lighter basaUy, base and apex of basitarsus 

 and apex of second segment white, apex of third segment with a few 

 white scales. Mesothoracic leg: lighter than prothoracic leg; tibia 

 with an oblique white fascia at one-fourth and another at one-half, 

 apex white; base and apex of basitarsus and apices of second and 

 third segments white. Metathoracic leg: coxa and femur mainly 

 white with scattered brown scales; tibia with a broad white streak at 

 one-fourth and another at three-fifths, apex white, scales of dorsal tuft 

 pale buff basally becoming white distally; tarsal segments gray 

 brown basally, broadly marked with white or gray white apically. 

 Abdomen: terga greasy ocher basally, gray brown distally, apices of 

 terga pale; sterna buff white, scales becoming greasy shortly after 

 death of specimen. Alar expanse: 15.5-18.0 mm. Male genitalia: 

 as in figures 93 and 95 (RWH slide 2150). Distal costal lobe of 

 valva about one-fourth length of basal costal lobe; lobes of juxta 

 nearly separated. Female genitalia: as in figure 155 (RWH slide 

 3155). 



Food plant : Unknown. 



Type: Lectotype, present designation; male, bearing following labels: 

 (1) Type. (2) Arizona, Morrison, 1883, 35345. (3) Walsingham 

 Collection, 1910-427. (4) Dactylota snellenella, Wlsm., U.S. Dept 

 Agr. Div Ent. Ins. Life. 1-84 (1888) ; Type d^, descr. (5) BM(NH) cf 

 genitalia slide no. 9209. In BMNH. 



Specimens examined : 



Arizona: Huachuca Mts., 1 cf , Sept. 17, 1903, Oslar, BMNH; Santa Rita 

 Mts., Madera Canyon, 4880 ft., Santa Cruz Co., 2 cf , 1 ? , May 3-June 7, 1963, 

 J. G. Franclemont (RWH wing slide 80), JGF; no further locaUty, Icf, 1881, 

 Morrison (RWH slide 2150), USNM; no further locality, 1?, 1883, Morrison 

 (RWH slide 3155), BMNH. Texas: Ft. Davis, 5000 ft., Id', 5. 28, BMNH. 



Discussion: The alar expanse of snellenella is at least 3 mm. more 

 than that of basilica, liguritrix, or egena. The lack of metallic colored 



