NO. 3547 NE ARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 57 



brown, scale bases white, apex and medial tuft white; tarsus brown, 

 apices of first three segments white. Metathoracic leg: coxa and 

 trochanter white with some gray brown scales; femur white with 

 brown scales; tibia brown (scale bases pale), a subbasal white fascia, 

 another at base of first pair of spurs, apex white; base and apex of 

 basitarsus and apices of second and third segments white. Abdomen: 

 mottled gray brown, buff, and gray, ventral surface paler than dor- 

 sal surface. Alar expanse: 12-14 mm. Male genitalia: as in figures 

 111, 113, and 124 (RWH slide 3219). Female genitalia: as m figure 

 163 (RWH slide 1238). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Male, Madera Canyon, 4880 ft., Santa Rita Mtns., Aug. 23, 

 1959, R.W. Hodges, CU type 4224. 



Para types: 



Arizona: same locality as type, 89 cf, 86 9, July 11-Sept. 3, 1959, R.W. 

 Hodges (RWH slides 1235-1238 and 3219; RWH wing slides 61 and 62), AMNH, 

 BMNH, CAS, CNC, CU, UCB, USNM; same locaUty except for elevation, 4000 

 ft., 2^^, 59, Aug. 9, 1959, R.W. Hodges, CU, USNM; Pena Blanca Canyon, 

 Santa Cruz Co., 9cf, 15 9, Aug. 7-Sept. 1, 1959, R.W. Hodges, CU, USNM, 



Other specimens examined : 



Arizona: Baboquivari Mts., Pima Co., IcT, 49, June 1-Oct. 30, O.C. Poling, 

 USNM; Madera Canyon, 4400 ft., Santa Rita Mts., Pima Co., 1 cf , 19, June 8 

 and 9, 1963, J.G. Franclemont, JGF; Paradise, Cochise Co., 1 9 , June 1-7, USNM. 

 Texas: Alpine, Brewster Co., 1 9 , May 22, 1950, E. C. Johnston, CNC; Brewster 

 Co., 7000 ft., 1 9 , 4.26, BMNH; Ft. Davis, JeflF Davis Co., 2 9 , May 20, 1950, 

 E. C. Johnston, CNC. 



Discussion: F. caieta may be quickly separated from the other 

 species of Friseria by the presence of white scales over most of the 

 forewings and head. 



Friseria repentina (Walsingham) 



Figures 49, 119, 122, 123, 167, 233, 234 



Gelechia repentina Walsingham, 1911, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centrali- 



Americana, vol. 42 (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4) p. 65. 

 Friseria repentina.— Bnsek, 1939, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, p. 573. 



Maculation: as in figure 49. Head: tongue pale buff and pale 

 brown; maxillary palpus orange; outer surface of first segment of 

 labial palpus orange with a few gray-brown scales, inner surface pale 

 buff, second segment orange with a brown ring (incomplete posteriorly) 

 at one-third and another at three-fourths, third segment orange with 

 a brown ring at one-thu'd and another at two-thirds; dorsal surface of 

 scape of antenna brown, an orange band at one-fourth, apex orange; 

 frons pale gray; vertex and occiput orange, most scales with orange 

 brown apices. Thorax: mottled orange brown, brown, and orange; 



