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Eurukuttarus carhonaria (Packard) Jones, Ent. News, vol. 36, pp. 33-39, 2 pis., 

 1925 (synonym of E. edwardsi). — Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., 

 pars 34, p. 131, 1929. — •McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada and USA, 

 pt. 2, no. 9530, 1939 (synonym of E. edwardsi). 



Male. — (Fig. 23.) Body and wings dark fuscous; body relatively 

 robust, densely hairy. Antennae usually with 27-28 segments. 

 Abdomen slightly surpassing secondaries. 



Wings abundantly scaled, scales (fig. 339) very slender, hairlike, 

 usually minutely bidentate at apex; marginal fringe fuscous. Pri- 

 maries with apex moderately rounded; spur of lA not present. Wing 

 expanse 19-22 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 267.) As described for genus. 



Female.— As described for genus. Length 12 mm. 



Female genitalia. — Similar to that of A. confederata except even 

 less sclerotized. 



Case. — (Fig. 84.) Length 23-27 mm.; diameter 4 mm. Very 

 similar in structure to A. polingi. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum (Psyche carhonaria 

 and M. edwardsi). 



Type locality. — Texas {Psyche carhonaria and Manatha edwardsi). 



Recorded hosts. — None; may feed on various grasses and other 

 types of low vegetation. 



Distribution. — (Map 1.) Presently restricted to the southern 

 Interior Plains of Oldahoma and Texas. 



Material examined. — 24 cf cf, 1 9, 23 cases: 



UNITED STATES: Oklahoma: Norman, d", Oct. 12, DRD. Texas: Spe- 

 cific locality unknown, cf, holotype, A. carhonaria; cT, holotype, A. edioardsi; 

 4 cf cf, 9, USNM; cf, AMNH; c? with case, BM. Alpine, Musquiz Canyon, 

 12 cases, A. po/mg'^■?, US NM. Blanco, cf and case, USNM. Dallas, case USNM. 

 Davis Mts., near Ft. Davis, 5000 ft., 5 cases, E. polingi?, USNM. Ft. Worth, 

 8 cTc? with 1 case, USNM; 4 d" c?, Oct. 21-Nov. 7, USNM. Nueces River, 

 c^, USNM. Piano, cf, Nov., USNM. San Antonio, cf and 2 cases, USNM. 



26. Astala tristis (Schaus), new combination 



Figures 24, 214, 268, 340; Map 7 



Chalia tristis Schaus, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 9, p. 45, 1901. — Gaede in 

 Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1178, 1936. 



Male. — (Fig. 24.) Body somewhat slender. Head and thorax 

 clothed with long whitish hairs, vesture of abdomen slightly darker, 

 pale brown. Antennae approximately 26- to 27-segmented. Abdo- 

 men exceeding posterior margin of secondaries by about ji its length. 



Wings fuscous. Primaries with discal scales (fig. 340) variable, 

 ranging from a slender, hairlike type with usually minutely bidendate 



