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routes of travel in these areas, strongly suggests the town of Zacualpan 

 in the state of Alorelos as the most probable place of origin for the 

 species. 



Material examined. — 6 cf d' : 



MEXICO: Guerrero: Ayotizinapa, Tixtla Valley, 1300 m., cf, Jan. 23, 

 USNM. MoRELOs(?): Zacualpau, cf, holotype, March; 2 cf cf , March, USNM; 

 cf, March, DEI; cf, March, ZSBS. 



28. Astala vigasi (Schaus), new combination 



Figures 26, 216, 269, 342; Map 7 



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

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



Male. — (Fig. 26.) Body very slender. Antennae with approxi- 

 mately 23 segments, majority of pectinations arising subapically. 



Wings thinly scaled, translucent. Prunaries with apex extended ; 

 scales (fig. 342) of cell as in A. zacualimnia, hahlike with usually 

 bidentate tips; R5 either connate or shortly stalked to R3+4. Hind- 

 wing M2 and 3 either separate or connate. Wing expanse 16-20 mm, 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 269.) Similar to A. zacualpania, but 

 more slender. Vinculum proportionately more elongate. 



Female and Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Las Vigas, Mexico. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution.- — (Map 7.) Definitely known only from the state 

 of Veracruz of the Atlantic Plain in East Central Mexico. 



Material examined. — 3 cf cf : 



MEXICO: Specific locality unknown, 2 cf cf , March 13, 14, USNM. Las 

 Vigas, Veracruz, cf, holotype, USNM. 



13. Hyaloscotes Butler 



Pachythelia, in part, of authors. 



Hyaloscotes Butler, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 314, 1881. — Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het., vol. 1, p. 290, 1892.— Dyar, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 354, 

 1902 [1903].— Schaus, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 344, 1905.— 

 Jones, Ent. News, vol. 36, p. 161, 1925. — Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep, 

 Cat., pars 34, p. 197, 1929. — ^McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada 

 and USA, pt. 2, p. 103, 1939. 



Hyaloscotus [sic] Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1185, 1936. 



Type of genus. — Hyaloscotes fumosa Butler, 1881. Original 

 designation and monobasic. 



Male. — Body slender build; covered with long, greyish to light 

 brown hair. Antennae (fig. 376) broadly bipectinate; pectinations 

 decreasing in length gradually toward apex, arising from middle of 

 each segment, tending to arise more apically in segments in distal 



