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line sinuate-angulate, bordered outwardly by a black 

 line and inwardly, on lower half, by a similar narrow 

 black liae; on many specimens a small, faint, whitish 

 patch just beyond the antemedial line on inner margin; 

 subterminal liae sinuate, bordered inwardly by a black- 

 ish line, the latter fainter than that bordering the ante- 

 medial line; discal spots black, confluent, normally 

 forming a black line along the discocellular vein, but on 

 individual specimens tending to separation on one or 

 the other forewing. Hind wing smoky white to brown, 

 variable in both sexes. Alar expanse, 17-18 mm. 



Male genitalia show no distinguishable differences 

 from those of typical turpidella, nubiferella, or annulo- 

 sella. Female genitaUa with the spining on anterior half 

 of bursa of a nearly imiform fineness (no dense concen- 

 tration of darker spines at the closed end) ; bursa with- 

 out appreciable sclerotization at middle. 



Type localities: United States: {turpidella, (^ , 

 in Paris Mus.); Kerrville, Tex. (ademptandella, in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Texas, Burnet County (Oct.), Kerr- 

 vUle (Apr., May, June), Sabinal (Sept.), also one Texas 

 male from the BoU Collection (No. 558) labeled 

 "Europe"; Florida, Gotha (F. Kauterberg, collector, 

 2 specimens, cf and 9). 



The foregoing from typical examples. Also before 

 me are transitional examples between turpidella and 

 nubiferella from Texas, Blanco County (May, July) 

 and Shovel Mountain, and North Carolina, Southern 

 Pines (Apr., July, Aug.) and Tryon (May, Sept.). 

 These specimens are dark, with the size and markings 

 of turpidella but with female genitalia more like those of 

 annulosella. Some of them had been identified as 

 annulosella. Others were under turpidella. I doubt 

 very much if turpidella is anything more than a variety 

 of nubiferella. Dyar's ademptandella is nothing but a 

 paler form of the typical turpidella. 



236. Salebriaria nubiferella (Ragonot), new combination 



Salebria nubiferella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 8, 1887; 



Monograph, pt. 1, p. 344, 1893.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. 



Anaer., p. 150, 1890.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6191, 



1939. 

 Salebria annulosella nubiferella (Ragonot) Forbes, Cornell Mem. 



68, p. 625, 1923. 



If this and the preceding "species" (turpidella) are 

 anywise distinct, the name nubiferella will apply to a 

 larger form (21 mm.) with the basal area of forewing 

 dark and concolorous with the darker shading in median 

 and outer areas and with a more strongly contrasted 

 white patch on the inner margin just beyond the ante- 

 medial line; but neither of these differences, nor those 

 used by Ragonot (Monograph, pp. 329, 345) to separate 

 turpidella and nubiferella are constant. According to 

 Clarke's notes the species is represented in the Paris 

 Museum only by the imique type, a male labeled "type 

 orig., pi. XIV fig. 23, Amer. Sept. don. C. V. Riley." I 



have examined its genitalia and they show nothing to 

 distinguish them from those of turpidella, annulosella, 

 or engeli. 



What appears to be a typical female in the National 

 Museum from Putnam County, lU. (July) has the well- 

 contrasted white spot on inner margin, dark hind wings 

 and dark gray forewings, the latter with discal dots 

 fused and the dark (blackish) borders of antemedial and 

 subterminal lines as in turpidella, but somewhat weaker. 

 Its alar expanse is 20 mm. The female genitalia have a 

 rather dense and dark concentration of fine spines at 

 the anterior end of bursa and a thickening and slight 

 sclerotization of the membrane at middle of bursa, the 

 sclerotized part showing what seems to be a fixed longi- 

 tudinal fold. In these particulars the genitaha are like 

 those of annulosella. 



Type locality: "Amer. Sept." [Texas] (type in Paris 

 Mus.) . 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Besides the aforementioned female there are before 

 me a male (19 mm.) from Putnam County, 111. (July), 

 and a male (18 mm.) and female (19 mm.) from near 

 St. Louis, Mo. (June) which appear to be conspecific 

 with the Illinois female. They have the white spot on 

 inner margin less strongly marked, but the strength of 

 this marking does not seem to be of any significance. 

 Presumably several of the Texas examples from the 

 intermediate specimens mentioned under turpidella 

 should be referred here if a specific distinction can be 

 maintained between turpidella and nubiferella. We 

 shall have to have host plant association and good 

 reared series before such a distinction can be made with 

 any certainty. 



237. Salebriaria engeli (Dyar), new combination 



Salebria engeli Dyar, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol 14, p. 107, 

 1906.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, p. 625, 1923.— McDun- 

 nough, Check list, No. 6195, 1939. 



Forewing dark brownish gray, the transverse lines 

 obscured; antemedial line indicated only by its very 

 faint, narrow, angulate, outer black border, followed 

 outwardly on inner margin by a strongly contrasted 

 white patch; subterminal line faint, but slightly paler 

 than the ground color and with an obscure, narrow, dark 

 inner border, sinuate; discal dots more or less confluent, 

 blackish with some pale scaling on their outer margins; 

 a row of separated blackish dots along outer margin. 

 Hind wings smoky fuscous, on darker specimens with 

 a pale brownish tint ; th e veins darkened. Alar expanse, 

 18-20 mm. 



Genitaha as in annulosella. 



Type locality: Oak Station, Pa. (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distkibution: Pennsylvania, Hazleton, New 

 Brighton (July), Oak Station (July); Maryland, Plum- 

 mers Isl. (July); Illinois, Decatur (May); Texas, 

 KerrvUle (May, June, July). 



An intermediate form between typical nubiferella and 

 annulosella, probably only a variety of the former. 



