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July 1-23 (USNM). Lucerne VaUey, 3 d^cf, 5 9 ?, May 26-28 (LACM). 

 Phelan, 3 miles west of, 2 cf d', ? , May 23 (LACM). San Bernardino, $, 

 May 1 (LACM). Ventura Co.: Craven's Ranch, Casitas Pass, c?", ?, June 23 

 (LACM). Mortimer Park, Simi Hills, 2 cf cf', 2 ? ?, June 4r-17 (LACM). 

 Sherwood Lake, Hidden Valley, cf , May 22 (LACM). 



Tegeticula maculata extranea (Hy. Edwards) 



Figures 85, 110, 133, 153; Map 4 



Thia extranea Hy. Edwards, 1888, p. 181. 



Thelethia extranea (Hy. Edwards) .—Dyar, 1893, p. 301; 1902 [1903], no. 5538.— 



Meyrick, 1913, p. 29.— McDunnough, 1939, no. 8639. 

 Tegeticula extranea (Hy. Edwards). — Busck, 1947, p. 183 [color variety of T. 



maculata]. 

 Pronuba maculata var. aterrima Trelease, 1893, p. 216, pi. 23, figs. 1-2. — Riley, 



1893a, p. 45; 1893b, pp. 303, 310. 

 Pronuba aterrima Trelease. — Dyar, 1903b, p. 102. — Kearfott, 1903, no. 7114. 

 Tegeticula aterrima (Trelease). — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, p. 197, no. 



8473.— McDunnough, 1939, pt. 2, no. 9836.— Busck, 1947, p. 183. [synonym 



of T. extranea Hy. Edwards]. 



Adult (fig. 85). — ^Very similar in most respects, except color, to 

 Tegeticula maculata. Wing expanse: male, 14-17 mm; female, 16-19 

 mm. 



Head: Almost invariably black, rarely white. Maxillary tentacle 

 fully developed in all females examined. Labial palpus entirely 

 black; scaling as in T. yuccasella. 



Thorax: Black. Primaries uniformly black above and below. 

 Secondaries hyaline, thinly scaled as in T. maculata; fringe completely 

 black, contrastingly darker than rest of hindwing. 



Abdomen : Entirely black. 



Male genitalia (fig. 110). — SimUar to T. maculata. 



Female genitalia (figs. 133, 153). — SimUar to T. maculata. 



Types. — Lectotype {Thia extranea Hy. Edwards, designated by 

 present author), cf, Los Angeles, Cahf., Apr. 4, 1879, 956, cotype cf, 

 Thia extranea Hy. Edwards; in the collections of the Illinois State 

 Natural History Survey. Lectotype (Tegeticula aterrima Trelease, 

 designated by the present author), 9, Arrowhead, Calif., 5606, USNM 

 67372; in the United States National Museum. 



Type localities. — Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., Calif, (lectotype, 

 T. extranea). "From the foothills immediately north of San 

 Bernardino" [Arrowhead], San Bernardino Co., Calif, (lectotype, 

 T. aterrima). 



Recorded host. — "Yucca whipplei variety graminifolia Wood," 

 Trelease, 1893. Larva bores in seeds of plant host. 



Distribution (map 4). — Current records indicate this subspecies 

 to be somewhat more southern in its range than the nominal species. 

 Presently it is kno\\Ti from the southwestern part of San Bernardino 



