32 BULLETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



STREPSICRATES INDENTANA (Dyar), 



(Figs. 3, 3a, 23, 306.) 



PhthinolopMcs indentanus Dyak, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 5, 1903, p. 306. — 

 Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7171, 1917. 



I have not seen a specimen of Walker's ejectana the type of Strep- 

 sicrates, but have before me specimens of the congeneric West Indian 

 ^. smithiana Walsingham, which in structure is no different from 

 indentana Dyar. The genitalia of the two are identical and the 

 only difference is in color, and that but slight. Inasmuch as our 

 species is variable and all three {ejectana^ smithiana, and indentana) 

 are feeders on Myrtaceae (or Myricaceae), it would appear that we 

 are dealing with one rather variable, widely distributed species, and 

 such I believe is the case. I am not making the synonomy now in 

 absence of a male of ejectana for genitalia comparison. If all three 

 should prove to be the same species, they could in all likelihood be 

 distinguished as separate races. At any rate, the genus Phthino- 

 lophus Dyar must fall before Strepsicrates Meyrick. It is in no 

 sense equivalent to CTOcidoseTna Zeller, as suggested by Busck.^^ 



Male genitalia figured from paratype in the National Collection 

 from Fortress Monroe, Virginia (reared from Myrtle, Dept. Agr. 

 no. 3422, "2/7/84"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes: Florida, Virginia, District of 

 Columbia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. 



Alar expanse. — 12-15 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Type locality. — Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 



Food plants. — Myrica cerifera, Eugenia. 



7. Genus THIODIA HUbner. 

 (Fig. 16.) 



Genotype. — Tortrix citrana Hiibner. 



Synonyms. — 1. Eriopsela Guenee. Genotype. — Tortrix quadrana 

 Guenee. 



2. Calosetia Stainton. Genotype. — Tortrix nigromaculana Ha- 

 worth. 



3. Gydia Hiibner. Genotype. — Tortrix orspidiscan/i Hiibner. 



4. Semasia AMiYiOV^ (not Stephens). 



5. loplocama Clemens. Genotype. — loplocama formosana Clemens. 

 (Figs. 17, 88.) 



" Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 12, 1910, p. 132. 



