NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 59 



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

 Oct. 25, 1959, R. W. Hodges, CU type 4225. 

 Paratypes : 



Arizona: same locality as type, 4400-5600 ft., 95 cf, 47?, June 26-Oct. 26, 

 1959, R. W. Hodges (RWH slides 712, 713, 3220-3222, and 3237-3244; RWH 

 wing slides 63 and 64), AMNH, BMNH, CAS, CNC, CU, USNM; Pefia Blanca 

 Canyon, Santa Cruz Co., 5c?, 59, Aug. 7-Sept. 1, 1959, R. W. Hodges (RWH 

 slides 3245 and 3246), CU, USNM. 



Other specimens examined: 



Arizona: Aravaipa Canyon, Pinal Co., 19, May 21, 1953, Dietrich, CU; 

 Baboquivari Mts., 6^^, 99, Apr. 15-July 15, 1924, O. C. Poling, USNM; Chiri- 

 cahua Mts., near Portal, 1 9 , July 5, 1939, A. F. Braun, AFB; Patagonia, 1 9 , 

 May 26, 1953, Dietrich, CU; Pinal Mts., 2cr, July and August, 1900, Kunze, 

 USNM; Santa Catalina Mts., Pima Co., 1 9 , July 24-31, USNM. 



Discussion: See the comments under repentina for means of 

 separating the two species. 



Friseria lacticaput (Walsingham), new combiuation 



Figures 51, 120, 126, 164, 237, 238 



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

 Americana, vol. 42 (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, vol. 4), p. 61. 



Maculation: as in figure 51. Head: tongue buff with a few pale 

 brown-tipped scales basaUy; maxillary palpus pale buff basally, 

 darker distally; first segment of labial palpus mottled buff and pale 

 brown, inner surface pale buff, second segment pale buff and orange 

 with incomplete pale brown rings at two-fifths and three-fourths, 

 posterior surface nearly white, third segment pale buff with a brown 

 ring at two-fifths and another at four-fifths; dorsal surface of scape 

 orange with a pale brown medial band, ventral surface pale buff, 

 shaft buff on first eight or nine segments then mainly brown; frons, 

 vertex, and occiput buff, many scales tipped with orange. Thorax: 

 orange on basal half, apex of tegula and a line across mesothorax pale 

 buff; apex of mesothorax dark brown; metathorax pale buff. Fore- 

 wing: dark brown, base orange and pale buff, fascia buff white, tornal 

 area creamy white. Hindwing: fuscous, cilia pale fuscous and buff. 

 Pro thoracic leg: coxa and femur buff white, a few brown scales at 

 middle of coxa, a brown fascia just beyond middle of femur; tibia 

 bro^vn and black dorsally; pale buff ventrally, base, part of medial 

 tuft and apex of apical tuft pale buff; tarsus buff wdth brown-black 

 dorsal saddles on first four segments. Mesothoracic leg : much as for 

 prothoracic leg. Metathoracic leg: coxa, trochanter, and femur buff 

 white, a few post medial brown scales on femur; tibia buff white, a 

 small subbasal patch of brown scales, a pale brown streak at one- 

 fourth, middle of outer tibial spurs dark brown; tarsus mainly buff. 



