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Distribution: Venezuela. 
Described from the male holotype, and one 2 paratype, all from 
the same locality (16-23.X%.1966, S. S. and W. D. Duckworth). 
In general appearance vesta is very similar to tornosema but differs 
from that species by the presence of a large, oval, ocherous-white 
spot at end of cell in forewing. No males of tornosema are known but 
the ductus bursae of tornosema is very short; that of vesta is nearly 
four times as long (cf. figs. 6, 7). 
Phalonia charma, new species 
Figure 8; PLATE 3 (Fa. 7) 
Alar expanse 14 mm. 
Labial palpus white; second segment suffused grayish and sparsely 
irrorate with fuscous on outer side; third segment with fuscous dash 
dorsally and ventrally on outer side. Antenna grayish fuscous; scape 
sordid white with fuscous irroration. Head sordid white; face suffused 
grayish. Thorax sordid white with band of fuscous anteriorly and 
posteriorly; tegula fuscous anteriorly and irrorate with fuscous on 
remainder of surface. Forewing ground color sordid white; basal two- 
fifths of costa gray; on middle of costa a rectangular gray spot; at 
apical fourth of costa an olive-buff blotch; apical fifth of wing gray, 
strongly marked with blackish-fuscous spots and blotches; on mid- 
dorsum an olive-buff shade extending into cell, preceded basally by a 
blackish-fuscous blotch; on dorsum, before tornus a small, but con- 
spicuous, blackish-fuscous spot; underside strongly infuscated except 
on apical half of costa; cilia sordid white with contrasting, dark gray 
basal line. Hindwing sordid white with pale grayish-fuscous mottling; 
cilia pale grayish with darker subbasal line. Foreleg white; femur and 
tibia fuscous on outer side; midleg similar to foreleg; hindleg sordid 
white. Abdomen ocherous white with grayish-fuscous suffusion and 
irroration dorsally; ventrally sparsely irrorate with fuscous. 
Female genitalia slide JFGC no. 11634. Ostium crescentic, broad. 
Antrum strongly sclerotized. Inception of ductus seminalis at middle 
of bursa copulatrix. Ductus bursae short, broad. Bursa copulatrix 
membranous; accessory bursa extending well beyond anterior end of 
bursa copulatrix. Signa consisting of very fine spicules; lamella post- 
vaginalis moderately sclerotized. 
Holotype: U.S. National Museum No. 69744. 
Type-locality: Argentina, Tucumén, Ciudad Universitaria, 800 m. 
Distribution: Argentina. 
Described from the unique female holotype (17.JI.59. J. F. G. 
Clarke). 
In general aspect charma is similar to the North American Phalonia 
glaucofuscana (Zeller), but the terminal dark area of charma is less 
