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apices, to a broader, oblanceolate scale with more deeply bidendate 

 tips. Wing expanse 17-18 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 268.) As described for genus. 



Female and Case.— Unknown. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Mexico. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 7.) Presently known only from the states 

 of Veracruz at the southern extremity of the Atlantic Plain and 

 Colima of the Sierra del Sur Section of central Mexico. 



Discussion.- — ^This species closely resembles A. edwardsi but differs 

 overall in its slightly smaller size and very distinctly in the paler color 

 of the thoracic vesture. 



Material examined. — 3 cfcf. 



MEXICO: Colima: Colima(?), <f, May, USNM. Veracruz: Jalapa, cf, 

 holotype, cf , USNM. 



27. Astala zacualpania (Dyar), new combination 



Figures 25, 215, 270, 341; Map 7 



Chalia zacualpania Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 35, 1916.— Gaede 



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

 Oikeiicoides zacualpania (Dyar) Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 



101, 1929. 



Male. — (Fig. 25.) Body relatively slender. Antennae with about 

 27 segments. 



Forewings thinly scaled, somewhat variable in shape, apex notice- 

 ably more extended in some specimens, causing outer margin to be 

 more obhque; scales (fig. 341) of discal cell hairlike with minutely bi- 

 dentate apices; Rj usually separate; M2 of secondaries either connate 

 or shortly stalked to M3. Wing expanse 23-28 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 270.) As described for genus. 



Female and Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Zacualpan, Morelos(?), Mexico. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 7.) Known from only two states, Guerrero 

 and probably Morelos, in the Volcanic and Sierra del Sur Sections 

 of central Mexico. 



Discussion. — The type locahty of this species is somewhat ques- 

 tionable. Dyar gave the locahty merely as "Zacualpan" without 

 designating in which of three states— Mexico, Morelos, Veracruz, 

 each containing a village of this name — the particular site was located. 

 He did state, however, that R. Miiller was the collector of the type 

 specimen. This fact, plus consideration of road conditions and likely 



