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6. Lobes from ventral margin of valva more than one-half length of valva 



(fig. 113) caieta, new species 



Lobes from ventral margin of valva less than one-fourth length of valva 

 (fig. 115) infracta (Walsingham) 



Friseria cockerelli (Busck) 



Figures 46, 47, 107-110, 162, 229, 230 



Gelechia cockerelli Busck, 1903, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 871. 



Friseria cockerelli.— Bnsck, 1939, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 573. 



Gelechia lindenella Busck, 1903, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 876. [New 



synonymy.] 

 Gelechia malindella Busck, 1910, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 179. 



[New synonymy.] 

 Gelechia sarcochlora Meyrick, 1929, Exot. Micr., vol. 3, p. 491. [New synonymy.] 



Maculation: as in figures 46 and 47. Head: tongue mixed gray- 

 white and pale brown; maxUlary palpus creamy white; outer surface 

 of first segment of labial palpus gray brown (scales pale basally), 

 inner surface white, outer surface of second segment gray brown on 

 basal half, mixed white and gray brown distally, inner surface white 

 with some gray-brown scales near apex, third segment mixed gray 

 brown and pale gray, posterior surface nearly white; dorsal surface 

 of scape of antenna dark brown, ventral surface buff, individual scales 

 of dorsal surface of shaft ocher basally, brown distally, ventral surface 

 pale ocher; frons and lower vertex creamy white, a few dark brown 

 scales before anterior margin of eye; scales of upper vertex and 

 occiput pale buff, apices pale gray brown. Thorax: mixed brown and 

 buff. Forewing: buff, bro^vn, gray brown, and red brown. Hind- 

 wing: fuscous, cUia pale buff. Prothoracic leg: coxa mixed creamy 

 white and brown, apex creamy white; femur mixed gray white and 

 brown with a purple cast at certain angles of light incidence; tibia 

 brown with a buff fascia at base of epiphysis and at apex, scale bases 

 pale; tarsus bro^vQ, base and apex of basitarsus and apex of second 

 segment pale buff. Mesothoracic leg: coxa and trochanter creamy 

 white; femur mixed gray white and brown; tibia brown, scale bases 

 pale, a scale tuft at middle, apex of scale tuft and of tibia pale buff; 

 tarsus brown, base and apex of basitarsus and apex of second segment 

 pale buff. Metathoracic leg: coxa creamy white basally, gray 

 distally; trochanter creamy white; femur mixed white and brown; 

 tibia mixed creamy white, browTi, and pale brown, tuft pale buff, 

 outer tibial spurs browTi; tarsus brown and creamy white, apices of 

 first four or all segments pale. Abdomen : mottled gray brown, ventral 

 surface with several gray- white scales. Alar expanse: 12-17 mm. 

 Male genitalia: as in figures 107-110 (RWH slides 1706 and 3224). 

 Female genitaha: as in figure 162 (RWH slide 3225). 



Food plant: Prosopis spp. Leaf feeder. 



