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slender, herbaceous stems along long axis of bag; sticks near posterior 

 end long (20-30 mm.), projecting far beyond tip of case. 



Lectotype. — In the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 designated by the author. 



Type locality. — Ceres, Prov. of Sante Fe, Ai'gentina. 



Recorded hosts. — "Poaceae: Aristida sp." (Costa Lima, 1945). 

 "Asteraceae: Baccharis cordifolia DC" (Heylaerts, 1901). 



Distribution. — (Map 8.) This species occurs over much of the 

 Parana Paraguay Plain of Argentina and Paraguay. 



Discussion.- — A lectotype for this species has been selected from 

 three S3^ntypes and the specimen is now deposited in the collections 

 of the Paris Museum. This taxonomic action is in accordance with 

 Heylaerts' published statement (1908) on the type deposition of 

 Chalia kunckelii: "Les specimens types font partie des collections du 

 Museum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris." Koehler (1924) has stated 

 that the type is in the Buenos Aires Museum, but this is not possible 

 as none of Heylaerts' syntypes were ever deposited there. 



Material examined.^ — 5 cf cf , 2 cases : 



ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, cf, USNM. Ceres, c?, lectotype; cf, lecto- 

 paratype, case, PM; cf, lectoparatype, case, RNH. 

 PARAGUAY: Villarrica, cT, Feb., USNM. 



18. Luniacra haitiensis, new species 



Figures 17, 207, 260, 332; Map 7 



Male. — -(Fig. 17.) Body vestm-e light brown. Antennae with ap- 

 proximately 31 segments. Wings light fuscous; broad as in L. hrasili- 

 ensis. Discal scales (fig. 332) in forewing oblanceolate with mostly 

 bidentate apices, few scattered scales with bluntly rounded tips; 

 base of M undivided within cell of both wings. Sc+Ri and Rs in 

 hindwing connected near middle of cell by oblique crossvein, converg- 

 ing at point beyond cell again to diverge, continuing to margin as 

 two separate veins. Wing expanse 27 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 260.) Saccus stouter, relatively shorter 

 than in L. brasiliensis and L. kunckelii. Ai"ms of eighth sternite 

 (fig. 207) nearly as long as those of L. kunckelii but distinctly more 

 divergent. 



Case. — Unknown. 



Holotype. — In the United States National Museum, no. 66369. 



Type locality. — Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 7.) Known only from the type specimen, 

 which was collected February 19-28, 1922, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 

 at an elevation of about 300 feet. 



