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NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 

 TORTRICIDAE 



Amorbia synneuraxa, n. sp. PI. XXXI, Fig. 3. 



Labial palpi light yellow, slightly brownish exteriorly. Face, head and thorax 

 light straw-yellow. Forewings light straw-yellow with a small faint light red- 

 dish brown dash on the middle of costa, directed outAvardly, and with a similarly 

 colored very faint dash on apical third of costa. Hindwings pale straw-colored. 

 Abdomen light yellow with whitish underside. Legs pale yellow. Underside 

 of wings unicolored light yellow. The female has both pairs of wings a shade 

 darker tlian the male, but is identical in markings. 



Alar expanse : S 20-24 mm. ; 9 26 mm. 



Habitat: Redington and Babaquivera Mts., Arizona. 



Type and cotypes in Collection Banies; cotypes in U, S. National Museum 

 (No. 22634). 



This species is similar to Amorbia emigratella Busck, especially 

 in the males, but is without the dark costal-apical edging of the hind- 

 wings found in that species, and the markings of the forewings are 

 much paler. The female dififers from any described species of the 

 genus by having veins 7 and 8 of the forewings united as in the male, 

 not stalked as is the normal. The Californian Amorbia cuneana Wal- 

 singham, is very variable in color, but is much larger and even the 

 palest male of that species is darker ochreous than those of the present 

 species. The male genitalia of this genus are very uniform with but 

 slight specific modification, but A. synneurana has the costa of the 

 harps somewhat arched, not straight, and the center of the transtilla 

 is much less spined than in A. cuneana Wlshm., it also has a very 

 dififerent armature of the penis from this species (see PI. XXXI, Fig. 

 1 and 3). 



Sparganothis machimiana, n. sp. PI. XXVIII, Fig. 2. 



Labial palpi light ochreous, suffused with dark fuscous exteriorly and with 

 dark fuscous terminal joints. Face naked. Head and thorax light ochreous 

 brown. Forewings light ochreous brown, evenly sprinkled with single scales of 

 darker brown and dark fuscous; a faint series of small blackish dots along the 

 costal and terminal edges; a conspicuous small black round dot at the end of 

 the cell; cilia ochreous. Hindwings light brownish fuscous with paler cilia; 

 underside with very faint transverse blackish striation. Abdomen ochreous 

 fuscous above, yellowish on the underside. LefTS ochreous with dusky tarsal 

 joints. 



