NO. 3561 LOXOSTEGE—CAPPS 35 
of dorsal margin. Aedeagus stout, cornutus an elongate, serrate, 
sclerotized patch. 
FremMaLe.—Alar expanse 19-21 mm. Similar to male in color and 
maculation. Genitalia (fig. 81): production of ductus bursae ventrad 
of the ostium with conspicuous medial emargination. 
Type.—Male, U.S. National Museum, USNM 67615, genitalia 
slide HWC 6004. 
TypxE-LocaLity.—Volcan Santa Maria, Guatemala. 
PARATYPES—GUATEMALA: type-locality, 2 o@. mexico: Cordoba, 
1 9; Orizaba, 1 9; Jalapa, 2 9; Oaxaca, 1 o; Chiapas: La Granja, 
1 9; Soconusco (Finca La Violeta), 5 @. costa rica: Juan Vinas, 
2 9, Irazu, 1 9. VENEZUELA: Rancho Grande (near Maracay), 1 9. 
Paratypes in the U.S. National Museum, American Museum of Natu- 
ral History, Canadian National Collection, and British Museum (Nat. 
Hist.). 
Foop pLtant.—Unknown. 
In FLIGHT.—January to October. 
Remarks.—The attenuate character of the uncus distinguishes 
the males of volcanensis from all others of the genus, and the conspic- 
uous median emargination of the production of the ductus bursae 
below the ostium is diagnostic for the females of the species. The 
female from Irazu is from the syntype series of conisphora. 
Loxostege mellinialis (Druce), new combination 
Figures 42, 91, 143 
Epichronistis mellinialis Druce, 1899, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia Centuali- 
Americana, Zoology, Lepidoptera, Heterocera, vol. 2, p. 559. 
Phlyctaenodes phrizalis Dyar, 1914, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, no. 2059, p. 395. 
[New synonymy.] 
Ma.r.—Alar expanse 28-32 mm. Frons conical. Antenna weakly 
ciliate. Midtibia incrassate; hair-pencil well developed, white. 
Outer spur one-third as long as inner spur. Forewing straw-yellow, 
slightly irrorated with buff. Markings as in female (fig. 42). Hind- 
wing somewhat paler than forewing, without buff irroration; post- 
medial line terminating at fold between veins le and 2; brownish 
patch adjacent to base of vein 2 variable in size and intensity; wedge- 
like brownish accentuation of veins at termen variable in intensity, 
occasionally absent or obsolescent. 
Genitalia (fig. 42): Harpe with digitate setae; a conspicuous denticu- 
late production arising from dorsal margin of sacculus; pad spinulate 
ventrally, brushlike. Aedeagus bifid distally, elements subequal, 
the dorsal one attenuate and spinulate. 
Frmatx (fig. 143).—Alar expanse 27-31 mm. Similar to male in 
color and maculation. Genitalia (fig. 91): eighth sternum finely 
