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ends in a black spot at costa; along lower fold between 

 the transverse lines fresh specimens show a faint shading 

 of olivaceous ocherous; a similar shade often along 

 discocellular vein; completely surrounding the dis- 

 cocellidar vein a large black ring (obicular). Hind 

 wing translucent white with a faint ocherous tint 

 especially towards outer margin and anal angle; the 

 veins very faintly darkened and a dark line along 

 termen. Alar expense, 19-22 mm. 



Male genitalia showing only comparative differences 

 to distinguish them from those of Jurcyferella. These 

 are shown in the figures. Female genitalia with a row 

 of stiff, flattened setae along lower, posterior margin of 

 the eighth-segment collar. 



Type locality: Arizona {alicvlella, in AMNH, ex 

 Rutgers; oherikuriella, in Paris Mus.). 



Food plant: Ceanothus ? (Hulst, 1890). 



Distribution: Arizona, Kingman (Oct.), White 

 Mts. (Aug.), Wilgus, Williams, state locality only 

 (June); New Mexico, Albuquerque, Fort Wingate 

 (June), Jemez Springs (June, July); Texas, Big Bend 

 region (May). 



Easily identified by the orange spot preceding the 

 antemedial line and the large black obicular mark on 

 the disc of the forewing. 



233. Otybria forciferella (Dyar), new combination 

 Figures 321, 787 



Salebria furciferella Dyar, Joum. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 12, 

 p. 106, 1903. — Barnes and McDunnough, Contributions, 

 vol. 3, p. 197, 1916.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6216, 

 1939. 



Similar to aliculella except: Forewing more strongly 

 dusted with black, making ground color a decided ash 

 gray; the obicular spot on disk absent, replaced by a 

 couple of black streaks on upper and lower veins at end 

 of cell, forking from a black streak extending along the 

 upper vein of cell from the black costal dash bordering 

 the antemedial white line; the subbasal orange patch 

 on inner margin preceding the antemedial line and the 

 orange shade following the subterminal Une reduced 

 and, on some specimens, obscured by black scaling. 

 Hind wing as in aliculella. Alar expanse, 21-23 mm. 



Male genitaha similar to those of aliculella except 

 projecting arms of tegumen stouter; aedeagus and 

 cornutus longer. Female genitalia with a fringe of 

 fine hairlike setae along the lower posterior margin of 

 eighth-segment collar. 



Type locality: Ashfork, Ariz, (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution : Arizona, Ashfork and Fresco tt (June, 

 type, (f , and 2 paratypes, 9) , also 2 females with only 

 the state locality, from the Femald and Brooklyn 

 Museum Collections and originally made cotypes of 

 aliculella Hulst. 



The species is easily recognized by the black streak 

 along the upper vein of cell and is distinct from alicu- 

 lella though obviously very close to it. 



62. Salebriacus, new genus 



Type of genus : Nephopteryx odiosella Hulst. 



Characters of Olybria except: Male antenna with 

 scale tuft in shallow sinus on base of shaft but greatly 

 reduced, a mere vestige. Forewing with vein 2 sUghtly 

 further from 3 at base than 3 is from 4; 8 and 9 stalked 

 for considerably more than half their lengths. Paired 

 tufts on eighth abdominal segment of male very weak, 

 mere vestiges. 



Male genitalia with uncus hoodlike, elongate (longer 

 than wide) and not projected downward. Apical 

 hooked process of gnathos stout, long, reaching nearly 

 as far as apex of uncus. Tegumen simple. Transtilla 

 present but incomplete and its elements much reduced. 

 Harpe with apex of sclerotized costa produced as a 

 stout, free spine before apex of cucullus. Anellus a 

 simple shield. Entire genitalia more robust and 

 proportionally shorter than those of Olybria or the genus 

 Salehriaria, which follows. 



Female genitalia with bursa very broad in proportion 

 to its length, not sclerotized, nearly half the inner sur- 

 face covered with a dense, spinose mat; ductus bursae 

 semitubular, broad and short, partially sclerotized (the 

 sclerotization interrupted near middle of the ductus); 

 ductus seminalis from near anterior end of bursa. 

 Eighth-segment collar narrow ventraUy and laterally, 

 dorsally produced as a spatulate apron. 



This genus is another restriction from Salebria of 

 authors. It is distinguished chiefly by the weak tuft 

 of the male antenna, the squat, stout, male genitalia; 

 the robust, hooked projection of gnathos, the eighth- 

 segment collar of the female, and the place of departure 

 from bursa copulatrix of the ductus seminalis. 



It contains but one North American species. 



234. Salebriacus odiosellus (Hulst), new combination 

 Figures 322, 799 



Nephopteryx odiosella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol, 3, p. 132, 1887. 

 Salebria odiosella (Hulst) Ragonot, Ent. Amer., vol. 5, p. 115, 



1889; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 366, 1893.— Hulst, Phycitidae 



of N. Amer., p. 155, 1890. — Barnes and McDunnough, 



Contributions, vol. 3, p. 197, 1916. — McDunnough, Check 



list. No. 6219, 1939. 

 Salebria bakerella Dyar, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 12, p. 



105, 1904.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6220, 1939. 



(New synonymy.) 

 Salebria yumaella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, 



p. 35, 1905.— McDunnough, Check list No. 6218, 1939. 



(New synonymy.) 



Forewing white dusted with black, making the 

 ground color ashy gray, palest over the median area; 

 antemedial Une narrow, obhque from costa to lower 

 margin of cell, thence slightly incurved to lower margin, 

 white, margined outwardly on upper half by a rather 

 broad black band and inwardly on lower margin by a 

 more or less expanded black patch; subterminal line 

 sinuate, narrow, white, bordered inwardly and, to a 

 lesser extent, outwardly by blackish lines which expand 

 into distinct black dashes at costa; discal dots at end 

 of cell, separated, usually distinct, blackish; on most 



