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grayish shade along costa and a fine fuscous line along 

 termen. Alar expanse, 25-27 mm. 



Male genitaUa with terminal margin of uncus broad, 

 very slightly convex; apical process of gnathos slightly 

 notched at apex; prongs of central projection of trans- 

 tiUa slightly convergent toward their apices ; harpe with 

 terminal margin of cucullus oblique, apex bluntly 

 poiated. Female genitalia with ductus bursae smoothly 

 sclerotized between its sclerotized, wrinkled part and 

 the schrotized and wrinkled margin of genital opening. 



Type locality: Tehuacan, Mexico (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Ejiown only from the type locality. 



11. CuniLerta, new genus 



Type of genus: Nephopteryx subtinctella Kagonot. 



Tongue well developed. Antenna of male with basal 

 segment elongate, cylindrical; shaft weakly serrate and 

 pubescent (the cilia about as long as width of segments), 

 basal segments swollen and incurved, forming a sinus 

 containing a row of minute thornlike spines and overlaid 

 with a spread of appressed scales; antenna of female 

 simple and very weakly pubescent. Labial palpus up- 

 turned, scarcely reaching vertex; third segment shorter 

 than second, acuminate. MaxiUary palpus small, squa- 

 mous. Forewing smooth; 11 veins; veiu 2 from before 

 (but rather near) lower outer angle of cell; 3 from the 

 angle, but little further from 2 at base than from 4; 4 

 and 5 short stalked; 6 from below upper angle of cell, 

 straight; 8 and 9 stalked for half their lengths; 10 from 

 the cell, closely approximate to basal half of the stalk 

 of 8-9 ; male without costal fold. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from well before lower outer angle of cell; 3 from the 

 angle, connate with 4-5; 4 and 5 stalked for approxi- 

 mately half their lengths; 7 and 8 closely approximate 

 beyond cell; cell slightly less than half the length of 

 wing; discoceUular vein curved. Eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment with 2 pairs of ventrolateral hair tufts. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos an 

 elongate, stout, rather broad hook with blunt, notched 

 apex. Uncus triangulate. Transtilla complete, stout, 

 arched, produced at middle into a broad U-shaped pro- 

 jection. Harpe simple. AneUus with rather broad, 

 dorsoventrally flattened lateral arms. Aedeagus mod- 

 erately slender with a single row of very minute serra- 

 tions along one lateral margin towards apex, otherwise 

 simple; penis with fine sclerotized wrinklings, otherwise 

 unarmed. Viuculum stout, somewhat longer than 

 broad. 



Female genitaha with signum developed as a small 

 granulate cup-shaped patch; bursa small; ductus bursae 

 considerably longer than bursa, unsclerotized except for 

 a narrow sclerotization along lower margin of genital 

 opening; ductus seminalis from ductus bursae near 

 genital opening. 



The genus is close to both Hemiptilocera and Crocido- 

 mera and shares some of the characters of each but is 

 distinct from both in the definite stalking of veins 4-5 



of forewing and iu the attachment of the ductus semi- 

 nalis of the female genitalia. 



Contains one North American species. 



61. Cuniberta subtinctella (Ragonot), new combination 

 FiGUBES 170, 666 



Nephopieryx subtinctella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 7, 

 1887; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 302, 1893. — Hulst, Phycitidae of 

 N. Amer., p. 146, 1890.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 

 6175, 1939. 



Forewing gray, more or less dusted with whitish on 

 basal and median areas; antemedial line nearly vertical, 

 out-angled at upper and lower margins of cell, bordered 

 outwardly by a black line which is expanded and 

 strongly accented on costa, bordered inwardly on lower 

 margin by a reddish or reddish olivaceous patch; on 

 some specimens a similar shade in fold beyond the ante- 

 medial line; subterminal line sinuous, bordered in- 

 wardly by a fine black line which, in most specimens, 

 expands on costa into a conspicuous black spot or 

 streak; on costa following the subterminal line a similar 

 more or less expanded black spot; discal dots at end of 

 cell usually confluent and forming a thin black lunide 

 along the discoceUular vein; a thin black streaklet on 

 vein 2. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous; veins scarcely 

 darker; a faintly darkened line along terminal margin. 

 Alar expanse, 22-26 mm. 



Genitalia as given for the genus; male with apex of 

 uncus narrowly rounded; vinculum evenly tapering to 

 rather broad terminal margin. 



Type locality: California (type in Paris Mus.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Utah, Park City 

 (June), Provo (July, Aug.); California, Shasta Ketreat 

 (Siskiyou County, Aug.). Canada: British Columbia, 

 Kaslo (June). 



12. Heras, new genus 



Type op genus: Heras disjunctus, new species. 



Tongue well developed. Antenna of male with first 

 segment rather long, cylindrical; shaft with a sinus and 

 heavy scale tuft at base, otherwise weakly pubescent. 

 Labial palpus upcurved, reaching above vertex; dorso- 

 ventraUy flattened; third segment somewhat shorter 

 than second. MaxUlary palpus squamous. Forewing 

 smooth; 11 veins; vein 2 from weU before lower outer 

 angle of cell; 3 from the angle; 4 and 5 connate or very 

 shortly stalked, shortly separated from 3 at base; 6 

 from slightly below upper angle of ceU, very slightly 

 bent towards base; 10 from the cell, closely approximate 

 to the stalk of 8-9; on male, a long narrow costal fold 

 and, on upper surface of wing, a fovea (depressed 

 pocket) in cell slightly beyond base. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from well before lower outer angle of ceU ; 3 from 

 the angle, connate with 4-5; 4 and 5 stalked for half 

 their lengths; 7 and 8 closely approximate beyond cell; 

 cell about half the length of wing; discoceUular vein 

 curved. Eighth abdominal segment of male with ster- 

 nal plate developed as a narrow sclerotized pocket at 



