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gallegoi were made by Mrs. Elsie H. Froeschner; the genitalia of M/Z. 
gallegoi were drawn by Mr. André del Campo Pizzini. 
Maesara, new genus 
Type-species: Maesara gallegor, new species. 
Antenna about two-thirds the length of forewing, rather stout, 
not ciliated; scape with pecten. Labial palpus upturned, second 
segment slightly roughened beneath; third segment acute, in male 
much shorter than second; in female nearly as long as second. Max- 
illary palpus short. Tongue well developed, heavily scaled. Head 
roughened, sidetufts spreading; ocelli absent. Thorax with posterior 
crest. Posterior tibia heavily clothed with moderately long hairlike 
scales. Forewing smooth, termen oblique; costal and dorsal edge nearly 
parallel in female, in male costa strongly arched, 12 veins; 1b furcate, 
2 from near angle of cell; 2, 3, and 4 about equidistant; 6 parallel to 
7; 7 and 8 long stalked, 7 to apex; 9 approximate to base of stalk of 
7 and 8; 11 from near basal third of cell. Hindwing with 8 veins; 2 
from well before angle of cell; 3 and 4 short stalked, from angle of 
cell, 5, 6, and 7 about equidistant. 
Male genitalia: Uncus present. Gnathos present, divided. Aedeagus 
unarmed. 
Female genitalia: Signa present. 
Maesara is related very closely to the Australian Sphyrelata Meyrick 
and keys to it in Meyrick’s key to the genera of Oecophoridae (“Genera 
Insectorum,”’ 1922, fasc. 180). Maesara differs from Sphyrelata by the 
smooth, somewhat shorter antenna, the absence of ocelli, the basad 
origin of vein 11 of the forewing and the short-stalked veins 3 and 4 
of the hindwing. 
Maesara gailegoi, new species 
Figures 1, 2; Puate 1 
Alar expanse 18-36 mm. 
Labial palpus light ochraceous buff mottled with brown and 
fuscous. Antenna ochraceous buff basally shading to chestnut brown 
distad; extreme apex ochraceous buff; scape ochraceous buff shaded 
with fuscous. Head ochraceous buff somewhat infuscated; side tufts 
mixed with blackish fuscous. Thorax ochraceous buff, the ground color 
obscured by chestnut brown and blackish fuscous. Forewing ground 
color umber brown; costa broadly edged with chestnut brown, this 
band of color narrowing toward apex; veins in costal half of wing 
emphasized by chestnut brown; in cell, at one-third, an ochraceous 
buff spot mixed with a few black scales; on fold, slightly beyond 
one-third, a similar spot (absent in some specimens); at end of cell a 
more conspicuous, well-defined, ochraceous buff spot; ochraceous buff 
