NO. 3547 NEARCTIC GELECHIIDAE — ^HODGES 33 



streak white to buff white with pale brown apices, scales dorsad of 

 brown streak pale yellow, a few buff tipped scales on outer margin, 

 scales of cilia white to buff white with pale brown tips. Hindwing: 

 fuscous, veins slightly darker than membrane, cilia pale buff brown. 

 Prothoracic leg: coxa white on posterior surface, anterior surface 

 brown (scales white tipped with brown); femur, tibia, and tarsus 

 brown with scattered white scales, solid brown on third through fifth 

 tarsal segments, apices of first and second and base of first tarsal 

 segment white. Mesothoracic leg: as for prothoracic leg but with 

 lateral surface of femur and tibia white and a few white scales at apex 

 of third tarsal segment. Metathoracic leg: coxa and femur white 

 with scattered pale brown scales; tibia white ventrally, buff white 

 with some pale brown tipped scales dorsally, dorsal tuft buff white; 

 first tarsal segment white with some brown scales, segments two 

 through five brownish, apices whitish. Abdomen: dorsal surface 

 ocherous basally, mixed pale brown, white, and buff distally and on 

 ventral surface. Alar expanse: 16.5-20.0 mm. Male genitalia: as 

 in figure 86 (RWH slide 2565). Aedeagus stout, maximum width 

 one-fifth maximum length. Female genitalia: as in figure 153 (RWH 

 slide 2564). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Type: Female, USNM. 



Specimens examined: 



UNITED STATES: California: Barton Flats, San Bernardino Co., 1 cf , Oct. 

 13, 1945, Sperry, AMNH; Jacumba, 1 ? , Oct. 1, 1924, (RWH slide 2596), USNM; 

 Rock Creek, 1 mi. W of Tom's Place, Mono Co., Sc? Sept. 6, 1960, C. D. Mac- 

 Neill, CAS; Upper Santa Ana River, San Bernardino Co., 1 cf , 12 9 , Sept. 14-20, 

 1947 and 48, Sperry (RWH slide 2564) CPK, USNM; no further locality, 1 ?, 

 BMNH. Colorado: Durango, 19, Sept. 26, 1945, E. C. Johnston, CNC; 

 Mesaverde, 2 c?, Sept. 27, 1945, E. C. Johnston (RWH slide 2565), CNC, USNM. 

 Idaho: Hagerman, Blue Gulch, 19, Sept. 23, 1932, USNM. Montana: Butte, 

 19, Sept. 12, 1945, E. C. Johnston, CNC. New Mexico: Frijoles Canyon, 

 Icf, Sept. 8, 1941, Sperry, USNM. Oregon: Crooked River, nr. Ft. Klamath, 

 Jackson Co., 6cf, 16 9, Sept. 21-23, 1871, Walsingham, BMNH; 15 mi. NW of 

 Vale, IcT, Sept. 9, 1962, K. Goeden, USNM. Utah: Dividend, 5c?, 9.28, BMNH; 

 Eureka, 1 c?, 1 9 , Aug. 27, 1911, T. Spalding, LACM, USNM; Stockton, 1 c?, 1 9 , 

 Aug. 29 and Sept. 12, T. Spalding, USNM. Washington: Dry Falls, Ic?, 3 9 , 

 Sept. 11, 1945, E. C. Johnston, CNC; Pullman, Ic?, Sept. 23, 1925, J. F. Clarke 

 (JFGC slide 3237), USNM; Satus Creek, Yakima Co., 2c?, 19, Sept. 16, 19, 

 1949, E. C. Johnston, CNC; Wenatchee, 5c?, Aug. 21-Sept. 5, 1929, J. F. Clarke 

 (AB slide Apr. 4, 1931), USNM. 



CANADA: British Columbia: Oliver, 1000 ft. 3c?, Aug. 28-Sept. 5, 1953, 

 D. F. Hardwick, CNC; same locality, 2 c?, 1 9 , Sept. 8-15, 1953, J. E. H. Martin, 

 CNC. 



Discussion: Lita princeps differs from the other species of Lita by 

 having the two black dashes in the cell usually joined and broad. In 



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