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in the notch here replaced by smooth, appressed, silvery 

 and ocherous scales; first segment of shaft broadly 

 flattened, the shaft shortly ciliate (the cilia about as 

 long as width of shaft). Labial palpus broadly scaled, 

 the second segment reaching well above vertex, deep 

 red-brown to blackish brown on outer side, the third 

 segment black scaled, at least on inner smiace. Thorax 

 deep brown mixed with blackish and buflf scaling. Fore- 

 wing reddish brown more or less shaded with black in 

 median area, the raised scaling at base mixed black and 

 dark red-brown; antemedial line obsolete or very faintly 

 indicated on the paler specimens, when distiuguishable 

 oblique, straight, narrow, pale buff; lower discal spot 

 at end of cell usually distinct, blackish; sub terminal 

 line obscure or obsolete; an interrupted row of partially 

 confluent black dots along termen. Hind wing trans- 

 lucent, white, the veins more or less darkened, a narrow 

 fuscous shade along termen. 



Female generally paler than the male. Palpi, head, 

 thorax, and forewiug hght reddish brown with a faint 

 sprinkling of whitish scales, especially bordering ter- 

 men; ground color darkened in median area along costa; 

 usually a broad, olivaceous shade along inner margin 

 at base; no defined transverse markings. 



Alar expanse, 17-19 mm. 



Male genitalia of the Piesmopoda type with incom- 

 plete transtilla developed as a pair of opposed, long, 

 slender, cxurved, strongly sclerotized arms, their apices 

 curved towards each other; anellus a narrow, broadly 

 V-shaped band, with long, curved, slender, haired lat- 

 eral arms, their apices bulbed. Female genitaha with 

 genital opening simple, no sclerotized plates behind the 

 opening. 



Type locality: El Yunque, Luqmllo Mts., Puerto 

 Kico (type in Cornell Univ.; paratypes in Cornell and 

 USNM, 61332). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Described from male type and two male and five fe- 

 male paratypes from the type locality (1,500-2,000 ft., 

 Apr. 22, 23, and Mar. 29, 1930, Cornell lot 795, sub. 38, 

 40, and 9, W. T. M. Forbes, collector) and two male 

 paratypes from San Francisco Mts., Santo Domingo 

 (Sept. 1905, A. Busck, collector). The males, with the 

 exception of the holotype and one paratjT)e, are badly 

 rubbed. The females are in better condition. 



This species is referred with reservations to Davara. 

 In its structural characters it straddles both Davara and 

 Piesmopoda and fits comfortably in neither genus. Its 

 female genitalia are those of Davara except that the 

 usual sclerotized plates behind genital opening are lack- 

 ing. Its male genitalia are those of Piesmopoda except 

 that the apices of the elements of transtilla point toward 

 (rather than away from) each other; and the apices of 

 the lateral arms of aneUus are swollen (bulbed) . In all 

 known species of Piesmopoda the apices of the elements 

 of transtilla point away from each other and the apices 

 of the lateral arms of transtilla are pointed. The male 

 antenna of interjecta also is abnormal for Davara in that 

 there is no brush of fine spines in the notch of the basal 

 segment. In my opinion these differences could permit 



generic separation of interjecta from both Davara and 

 Piesmopoda; but they are so shght that, without further 

 evidence from biology or the early stages, a new generic 

 designation does not seem justified at this time. 



156. Davara rufulella (Ragonot), new combination 



FiGiTRBS 257, 739 



Piesmopoda rufulella Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1888, 

 p. cxxxix; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 165, 1893. 



Male antenna simple. Labial palpus upturned, not 

 broadly scaled, cylindrical; reaching to slightly above 

 vertex on male, nearly to vertex on female; terminal 

 segment acuminate. Forewing pale red-brown; the 

 basal area a trifle paler with some faint olivaceous shad- 

 ing in inner margin; antemedial line oblique, straight, 

 obscure, indicated chiefly by its outer dark margin, 

 which begins as a blackish smudge on costa and contin- 

 ues to inner margin as a slight darkening of the ground 

 color; more or less blackish dusting in the cell beyond 

 antemedial line; on paler specimens some peppering of 

 white scales in median and outer areas, especially on 

 midcosta; sub terminal line obsolete or very faintly indi- 

 cated; discal spots obscure, confluent along discocellular 

 vein. Hind wing translucent white; the veins dark- 

 ened; a faint, narrow fuscous shade along termen. Alar 

 expanse, 13-16 mm. 



Male genitalia without cluster of fine spines surround- 

 ing free spine associated with anellus, the free spine 

 itself short, stout, broadly forked. Lateral arms of 

 anellus straight. Harpe with apex of cuculius pointed; 

 clasper long, stout, strongly curved. Female genitalia 

 with two pairs of contiguous sclerotized plates behind 

 genital opening; ductus bm-sae sclerotized at genital 

 opening. 



Type locality: Puerto Rico (t3^e in Zool. Mus. 

 Univ. Berlin). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Disthibution: Pueeto Eico: Bayam^n (Apr., Sept.), 

 Comerio (Nov.), Jajoma Alto (June), Lares (Dec), La 

 Sardinera (Dorado, June), Palmas Abajas (June), San 

 German (Apr.). 



I have seen no specimens from any but Puerto Eican 

 localities. As mentioned in the discussion of the genus, 

 rufulella is aberrant in that it lacks the modified basal 

 segment of male antenna and the characteristic broad 

 scaling of the male labial palpi. However, the genitalia, 

 both male and female, are characteristic of the genus, 

 showing only specific differences from other species of 

 Davara. 



38. Genus Sarasota Hulst 



Sarasota Hulst, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 8, p. 222, 1900, 

 (Type of genus: Sarasota plumigerella Hulst). 



Cuba Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 50, 1919. (Type of 

 genus: Cuba furculella Dya,!. New synonymy.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna simple in both 

 sexes, shaft weakly pubescent. Labial palpus up- 

 turned, reaching to slightly above vertex; third segment 

 slightly over half the length of second, acuminate. 

 MaxUlary palpus small, squamous. Forewing smooth; 

 11 veins; vein 2 from before but near lower outer angle 



