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Type. — Possibly lost. A badly damaged specimen in the American 

 Museum of Natural History bears a Hulst type label and "Col., July, 

 Collection G D Hulst," female genitalia slide No. 3229, Carl Heinrich, 

 June 14, 1946. The original description gives the type locality as 

 Texas. See discussion by Barnes and McDunnough (1918). 



Host. — Dyar (1904b) reports specimens bred from Orthezia annae 

 (Coccidae) on Atriplex canescens (Chenopodiaceae). 



Aurora nigrotnaculella Hulst 



Aurora nigramaculella Hulst, 1900 1901, 224: 1902, p. 438. — Rindge, 1955, p. 167. 

 Zohpodia nigromaculella (Hulst). — Dyar, 1904c, p. 228. 

 Saluria nigromaculella (Hulst), — Hampson, 1918, p. 100. 



Type. — Holotype, in the U.S. National Museum. 



Type data. — Arizona, Santa Rita Mts., June 8, 1898, E. A. 

 Schwarz; USNM 5185; female genitalia slide 2269, Carl Heinrich, 

 Sept. 11, 1934. A specimen in the American Museum of Natural 

 History bears a cotype label and "Hot Springs, N. Mex. 7000 ft. alt. 

 Sept., Collection G D Hulst"; abdomen lost. The original description 

 mentions only the Arizona specimen. 



Discussion. — Dyar (1904b) and McDunnough (1939) consider this 

 to be a synonym of ardiferella Hulst. 



Parramatta placidella Barnes and McDunnough 



Parramatta placidella Barnes and McDunnough, 1918, p. 177, pi. 24, fig. 17. — 

 McDunnough, 1939, p. 35. 



Types. — In the U.S. National Museum. 



Type data. — Lectotype, hereby designated, male, Olancha, Inyo 

 County, Calif., June 24-30, Barnes collection, male genitalia sUde 

 No. 1127, Carl Heinrich, Feb. 6, 1942: labeled "Parramatta placidella 

 Type B & McD." 



Lectoparatypes: Olancha, Inyo County, Calif., four females, all 

 labeled "Parramatta placidella Paratype B & McD," Barnes collection; 

 three specimens dated June 8-15, the fourth dated June 16-23 and 

 labeled female genitalia sUde No. 1128, Carl Heinrich, Feb. 6, 1942. 



On all five specimens Inyo is misspelled on the label as "Inya." 



Literature Cited 



Barnes, William, and McDunnough, J. H. 



1913. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North 

 America, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 16&-194. 



1917. Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, pp. 149-150. 



1918. Contributions to the natural history of the Lepidoptera of North 



America, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 176-177, pi. 24, fig. 17. 

 Beirne, Bryan P. 



1952. British pyralid and plume moths. Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 

 London and New York, 208 pp. 



