No. 3661 LOXOSTEGE—CAPPS 23 
Lrectrotyre.—Male, Naturhistorische Museum, Vienna, genitalia 
slide HWC 17,238. 
TypxE-Locatity.—North America. 
PaRALECTOTYPE.—Female, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), genitalia 
slide HWC 17,327. 
Foop puLants.—Amaranthus retroflerus, mint, morning glory, 
tobacco, and Rumez. 
DIsTRIBUTION.—UNITED STATES: Maryland, District of Columbia, 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, 
Illinois, Arizona. MExiIco: Sonora, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca. 
COSTA RICA: Avangarez. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—169. 
In FiuigHt.—March to September. 
Remarks.—In describing mancalis, Lederer indicated that the type 
series consisted of nine specimens, which were from North America 
and Brazil “Ex Mus. Caesar, Felder.’”” Only two of these could be 
located, a male, by Dr. Kasy of the Vienna Museum, and the other, a 
female, by Mr. Whalley, at the British Museum. I hereby designate 
the male as lectotype and the female as paralectotype of the species. 
It is not likely that the syntypes from Brazil are the same species as 
those from North America, for I have found no specimens of mancalis 
in the considerable amount of material from Brazil and other South 
American countries that J have examined. 
The lack of digitate setae, in combination with the character of 
the spine arising from near the middle of the ventral margin of the 
harpe and the hook arising from the sacculus, is diagnostic for the 
male genitalia of mancalis. The rather smooth, straight, ventral 
margin and short lateral, spurlike production of the ostium, in com- 
bination with the incrassate character of the ductus bursae between 
the ostium and ductus seminalis, distinguish the females of mancalis 
from all others of the genus. 
Loxostege ramsdenalis (Schaus), new combination 
FIGURES 28, 74, 120 
Phlyctaenodes ramsdenalis Schaus, 1920, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 
p. 219. 
Maue.—Alar expanse 20-23 mm. Frons conical. Midtibia in- 
crassate, hair-pencil distinct. Similar to mancalis in color and macula- 
tion but with indentation of transverse posterior line deeper and more 
acute between veins 1b and 2 of forewing. 
Genitalia (fig. 28): Somewhat similar to those of mancalis but 
differing as follows: harpe with a cluster of digitate setae; sclerotized 
production from near middle of ventral margin bluntly rounded, 
