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spinulate, rather smooth in appearance but with a few transverse 
folds or ridges and a pair of pouchlike receptacles laterad of the ostium, 
their long axes transverse. 
Typrs.—British Museum (Nat. Hist.): mellinialis. U.S. National 
Museum: phrizalis, USNM 16510, genitalia slide HWC 6014. 
TYPE-LOCALITIES.—Duenas, Guatemala (mellinialis); Zacualpan, 
Mexico (phrixalis). 
DISTRIBUTION.—GUATEMALA: Duenas. mexico: Zacualpan. UNI- 
TED sTATES: Arizona [new record for the United States]. 
Foop pLaAnt.—Unknown. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—25. 
In FLicHTt.—July to September. 
Remarks.—L. mellinialis and phrixalis were previously known only 
from the types, and I am indebted to Mr. Whalley for comparison of 
my material with that of mellinialis in the British Museum (Nat. 
Hist.). 
Loxostege venadialis, new species 
Ficures 43, 90, 145 
Maur.—Alar expanse 32 mm. Frons conical. Antenna ciliate, 
length of cilia equal to width of shaft. Midtibia incrassate; hair- 
pencil well developed, white. Outer spur slightly less than one-half 
as long as inner spur. Color and maculation as in mellinialis but 
with definition of markings weaker, without wedgelike buff or brownish 
accentuation of veins at termen, and second and third segments of 
labial palpus paler. 
Genitalia (fig. 43): Similar to those of mellinialis but with uncus 
stouter, sacculus wider with dorsal margin somewhat undulate, 
aedeagus more robust and longer. 
FreMAte (fig. 145)—Alar expanse 27-31 mm. Similar to male in 
color and maculation. Genitalia (fig. 90) resemble those of mel- 
linialis but with eighth sternum more strongly spinulose, with con- 
spicuous undulate furrows, and with pouchlike receptacles much 
larger. 
Typr.—Male, U.S. National Museum, USNM 67616, genitalia 
slide HWC 6013. 
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Venadio, Sinaloa, Mexico. 
ParatyPEs.—Type-locality, 1 o&, 3 2. 
Foop pLant.— Unknown. 
In FiticHtT.—No date of collection. 
Remarks.—The slightly longer cilia and outer spur distinguish the 
males of venadialis from those of mellinialis. The absence of the 
