NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — HODGES 65 



Sriferia, new genus 



Type-species: Gelechia pr or epta Me jrick, 1923. 



Head : smooth scaled; tongue moderate, scaled to one-half; maxillary 

 palpus porrect; labial palpus recurved, sickle shaped, second and 

 third segments subequal in length, second segment thicker than third; 

 antenna one-half length of forewing, simple. Forewing: broadly 

 lanceolate, apex almost rounded; 12 veins present; 7 and 8 stalked, 

 7 to costa. Hindwing: trapezoidal, outer margin gradually moving 

 to apex, apex slightly produced, broadly acute; 8 veins present; 

 3 and 4 short stalked; 5 at right angle from 3 and 4; 6 and 7 separate; 

 7 sinuous; Ri merging with Sc near base. Male genitalia: saccus 

 developed, slightly expanded anteriorly; vinculum narrow; valva with 

 two linear costal lobes, separate to juncture between tegumen and 

 vinculum; aedeagus stout, basal half expanded; tegumen long, uncus 

 moderate with apical row of long, stout setae; gnathos hook shaped; 

 culcitula present. Female genitalia: unknown. 



Sriferia may be separated from Friseria by the lobes of the valvae 

 being separate to the base and by the quadrate saccus and from 

 Rifseria by the long apical setae on the uncus, lack of permanent 

 setae on the abdominal terga, and by vein 6 of the forewing being 

 separate from 7 and 8. 



Sriferia prorepta (Meyrick), new combination 



Figures 56, 127, 131, 245, 246 



Gelechia prorepta Meyrick, 1923, Exot. Micr., vol. 3, p. 19. 



Gelechia fulmenella Busck, 1910, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 178. 

 [Preoccupied.] 



Maculation: as in figure 56. Head: tongue and maxillary palpus 

 buff white to white; first segment of labial palpus cream white to 

 white, second segment cream white, becoming brownish on anterior 

 surface, third segment brown, posterior surface gray white to cream 

 white basally; dorsal surface of antenna brown, ventral surface of 

 scape and base of shaft buff white; frons white; vertex and occiput 

 gray brown. Thorax: gray brown. Forewing: dark scales gray to 

 purple gray, tipped with brown; fascia white; cilia fuscous. Hind- 

 wing: fuscous, cilia gray brown. Prothoracic leg; coxa white basally 

 and apicaUy, gray brown medially; femur, tibia, and tarsus brown, 

 apices of femur, tibia, and first two tarsal segments white. Meso- 

 thoracic leg: coxa and femur white, femur gray apically; tibia and 

 tarsus gray brown, apices of tibia and first two tarsal segments white 

 or pale. Metathoracic leg: coxa, trochanter, and femur white with 

 some pale gray scales; tibia and tarsus dark gray to gray brown, a 

 white fascia at base of first pair of tibial spurs, extending into dorsal 



