NORTH AMEKICAN K-^SPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE 103 



Described from male type from Denver (Oslar " 6-7 — 7 ") ; 1 male 

 and 1 female paratypes from Clear Creek (Oslar) ; 1 male and 3 

 female paratypes from Chimney Gulch near Golden (Oslar, July) ; 

 and 1 female paratype from Berkeley (Oslar) ; all Colorado local- 

 ities. 



This series Kearfott had set aside under a manuscript name as a 

 new s])ecies. It 13 possibly only a local race of rubipuncta. 



4. ENDOTHENIA MELANOSTICTA (Walsingham) 

 (Figs. 191, 353) 



Penth'ma melanosticta Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1895, p. 500. 

 Olethreutes melanosticta Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5048, 



1903. 

 Epinotia flavillana Dyar, Proe. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 5, 1903, p. 230. 

 Argyroploce melanosticta Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. 



Bor. Amer.. no. 6858, 1917. 

 Enarmonia fiaiullana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 7165, 1917. 



The largest American speci.s in the genus. The male has a yellow 

 hair pencile on the hind tibia, the female a dusky border along 

 termen on underside of hind wing. In the male the underside of the 

 hind wing is pale throughout. 



Male and female genitalia figured from specimens in National Col- 

 lection from Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. (male), and Wil- 

 liams, Ariz, (female, type of flavillana). 



DistHhution. — Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, California. 



Alar exparise. — 25-30 mm. 



Types. — In British Museum {melanosticta) ; National Collection 

 {flavillana) . 



Type locatities. — Larima County, Colo, {melanosticta) ; Williams, 

 Ariz, {flavillana). 



5. ENDOTHENIA HEBESANA (Walker) 



(Figs. 188, 350) 



SciapMla heJ)esana Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 1863, 



p. 342. 

 Carpocapsa inexpertana Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 



1863, p. 394. 

 Penthina fullerea Riley, Amer. Ent., vol. 2, 1870, pp. 204, 371. 

 Penthina hebcf-ana Walsingham, Illus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 



1879, p. 31. 

 Olethreutes hebesana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid. no. 5038, 



1903.— Kearfott, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 350 ; Can. Ent. 



vol. 37, 1905, p. 207.— Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 



1924, p. 458. 

 Argyroploce hehesana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 6827, 1917. 



