REVISION OF MOTHS OF PRODOXINAE 



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Map 8. — Distribution of Prodoxus quinquepunctellus (marginal records are indicated by 



black circles). 



I suggest for it the specific name paradoxica, since it cannot be 

 5 punctella." The five specimens constituting this series were de- 

 scribed at some length by Chambers and thus were easUy recognized 

 by the writer even though they bore no labels identifying them as 

 syntypes of H. paradoxica. All five moths possess a hand\\Titten 

 label identifying them as Pronuba yuccasella, in addition to a label 

 bearing the collector's name (Chambers) and the locality, "Color[ado]." 

 One specimen, an immaculate male, has been designated the lectotype 

 and the remainder as paralectotypes. 



In his description of Prodoxus decipiens, Riley (1880b, p. 155) states 

 that the species was "described from 25 specunens, either taken in 

 1873 from Yucca flowers at Bluffton, S.C., or subsequently reared 

 from the flower stems of Yucca." Until the identity and location of 

 this material can be established with some degree of certainty, no 



