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1936, H. H. Keifer, CAS; Morro Rock, San Louis Obisbo Co., 1 9 , May 4, 1962, 

 J. Powell, UCB; San Diego Co., 28 cf, 49, Apr. 16-June 13, W. S. Wright, 

 Ricksecker (AB slide Mar. 5, 1931; RWH slides 2557 and 2558), LACM, MCZ, 



USNM. 



Discussion: A. diversella may be separated from tenuicornis as 

 indicated in the keys. The two valval lobes, slender aedeagus, 

 sclerotized ductus bursae, and lack of signum associate diversella with 

 Aria rather than Lita. 



The collection record from El Dorado county indicates that diver- 

 sella at least has a wider distribution than coastal Southern California 

 and that it may be found in Oregon and Washington. 



Neodactylota Busck 



Neodactylota Busck, 1903, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 835. 



Type-species: Dactylota sneUenella Walsingham, 1888, original 

 designation. 



Head: smooth scaled; tongue moderate, scaled for short distance 

 basally; maxillary palpus shghtly folded over base of tongue to 

 drooping; labial palpus reciurved, slender, second and third segments 

 subequal in length; antenna with pecten absent, two-thirds to foiu-- 

 fifths length of forewing, simple. Forewing: broadly lanceolate; 12 

 veins present; 2 from cell at two-thirds length of cell; 2, 3, 4, and 5 

 subparallel; 6 closer to 7 than to 5; 7 and 8 stalked. Hindwing: 

 dimorphic cf, outer margin deeply emarginated; 6 veins present, 4 and 

 5 absent; 6 and 7 united to three-fifths, 6 to outer margin, 7 to costa; 

 9, wing quadrate, termen produced; 8 veins present; 3 and 4 separate 

 to short stalked; 5 arising closer to 4 than to 6. Male genitaha: valva 

 with two costal lobes; juxta fused with vinculum basally; aedeagus 

 relativel}^ linear. Female genitalia: ostium bursae on anterior margin 

 to middle of eighth sternum; eighth sternum unadorned to slightly so; 

 apophyses posteriores longer than apophyses anteriores. 



The species included in Neodactylota, as defined above, can be 

 separated from those in Eudactylota by the presence of well or moder- 

 ately well defined spots on the disk of the forewing ; by the hindwing 

 shape being dimorphic between the sexes (the outer margin is deeply 

 emarginated in the male with a concomitant loss of veins 4 and 5, 

 whereas the outer margin of the female is normal) ; and by the valva 

 having two costal lobes. 



With the addition of three new species the total known for the 

 genus is four. However, further collecting in Mexico and adjacent 

 areas of the Southwest may reveal that others exist. Unfortunately, 

 very Uttle is known of the distribution of any of the species. 



