48 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 280 



Type. — In the American Museum of Natural History. 



Type data. — Lectotype female, designated by Klots (1942), Fort 

 Myers, Fla., Apr. 23, 1912; genitalia slide No. 586, J. Shaffer, Nov. 28, 

 1965. 



Lectoparatype female, Everglades, Fla., Apr. 7, 1912. 



Specimens examined. — 10 cf, 3 9- 



Distribution (Map 10). — Known only from southern Florida. 



UNITED STATES: Florida; Broward Co., Ft. Lauderdale, ? , Mar. 27, 1928 

 (D. M. Bates) [CPK]; Collier Co., Everglades, 4 d^, AprU 1-7 [USNM]; 3 cT, 

 April 8-15 [USNM]; Dade Co., Paradise Key, Everglades National Park, ?, 

 Apr. 2, 1952 (G. S. Walley) [CNC]; cf, Apr. 3, 1952; Sarasota Co., 9 , May 13, 

 1946 (C. P. Kimball) [CPK]; Siesta Key, cf, Mar. 31, 1952 (C. P. Kimball) 

 [CPK]; &, Mar. 30, 1954 (C. P. Kimball) [CPK]. 



Atascosa Hulst 



Atascosa Hulst, 1890, p. 210. — Smith, 1891, p. 85. — Hulst, 1902, p. 438. [Type: 

 Atascosa bicolorella Hulst, 1890. Original designation.] 



Diagnosis. — The flat, elbowed, bluntly pointed spicate processes 

 of the uncus (fig. 126) are diagnostic of the genus. 



Description. — Frons conical; labial palpi upturned with third 

 segment decumbent in males, porrect in females; maxillary palpi 

 reaching frons, cylindrical tuft of long slender scales, sometimes ex- 

 panded and fanlike; antennae sublaminate, ciliate in males, filiform, 

 finely ciliate in females; ocelli weU developed. 



Forewing mth 11 veins; Ri free from cell; R2 from near to or stalked 

 with R3+4; M2+3 stalked for about half its length. Hindwing with 7 

 veins; Sc and Rs stalked; Mi from upper outer angle of cell; M2 

 absent; M3 stalked with Cui, from lower outer angle; Cu2 from just 

 before the angle. 



Male genitalia with spicate processes in form of a pair of flat lateral 

 arms, ventroposteriorly directed from base, then elbowed and distal 

 half ventrally directed; arms bluntly pointed. Gnathos with apical 

 process a small postero ventrally directed thorn ; arms straplike. Juxta 

 subquadrate, shieldlike. Vinculum V-shaped, somewhat flattened 

 anteriorly. Valvae with costa bearing subapical spine; sacculus with 

 numerous stout setae; cucculus rounded, membranous, sm-passing 

 costa. Aedeagus flattened, vesica unarmed. 



Female genitalia A\'ith ovipositor moderately setose, caudal margin 

 finely setose. Apophyses fairly straight, of about equal length; well 

 developed; base of posterior shaped like a parallelogram; anterior 

 curved downward near base. Bursa unarmed. Ductus seminalis from 

 posterior end of bursa. 



