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238. Salebriaria annnloBella (Ragonot), new combination 



Figure 800 



Salebria annulosella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 7, 1887; 



Monograph, pt. 1. p. 346, 1893.— Forbes, Cornell Mem. 68, 



p. 625, 1923.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6197, 1939. 

 Salebria robustella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, 



p. 114, 1908.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6211, 1939 



(New synonymy.) 



Forewing gray ; antemedial line but slightly paler than 

 the ground color and not sharply defined, margined on 

 outer side at costa by a more or less triangulate blackish 

 patch and on inner side at inner margin by a somewhat 

 larger blackish patch which extends to or nearly to base 

 of wing; discal dots distinctly separated, black, sur- 

 rounded by pale dusting; sub terminal line obscure; a 

 row of distinct blackish dots along terminal margin. 

 Alar expanse, 18-20 mm. 



Female genitalia figured from specimen from Bm-net 

 County, Te.x. They are like those of the type in Paris 

 and differ in no essential details from those of females 

 of nubilella. 



Type localities: Texas (annulosella, in Paris Mus.) ; 

 Burnet County (robustella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Texas, Blanco County (Apr.) ; Burnet 

 County (Apr.); North Carolina, Raleigh (June). 



According to Clarke's notes, two examples, forming 

 the basis of Ragonot's diagnosis of the species in his 

 Monograph, are in the Paris Museum. One is a female 

 from Texas, obviously the type but not so labeled. It 

 was the specimen figured in the Monograph (pi. 9, fig. 

 6). The other specimen is a male labeled: "Dallas, 

 Texas, Boll, 24-V-689." A female in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, also a Boll specimen from Texas (No. 

 559) and probably a mate to the Paris male, bears a 

 name label (Salebria annulosella) in Ragonot's hand- 

 writing. 1 doubt that either of these Boll specimens is 

 a typical annulosella. Our female in markings is inter- 

 mediate between annulosella and tenebrosella with female 

 genitalia like the latter species. Dyar's type of robus- 

 tella (a male) matches Ragonot's figure and description 

 of annulosella in all details e.xcept that the discal spots 

 are obscured on one forewing. A female, obviously the 

 other sex of Dyar's type, had been identified by him as 

 annulosella. The remaining Texas examples before me 

 (Blanco County) had been identified by Hulst as either 

 nubijerella or pumilella. 



239. Salebriaria tenebrosella (Hulst), new combination 

 Figures 801, 803 



Nephopteryx tenebrosella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 131, 1887. 

 Nephopteryx quercicolella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 7, 



1887. 

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



1889; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 347, 1893.— Hulst, Phycitidae 



of N. Amer., p. 151, 1890.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 



6199, 1939. 

 Salebria heinrichalis Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 5, p. 45, 



1917.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6192, 1939. (New 



synonymy.) 



Forewing dark gray more or less shaded with black, 

 especially in basal area; antemedial line whitish, dif- 



fused, oblique, sometimes interrupted at middle, pre- 

 ceded by a dark red patch on lower half; cutting this 

 red patch an oblique black line which fuses into the 

 black basal shade on costal half of basal area; subter- 

 minal line obscure, sinuate, very slightly paler than 

 the ground color; discal dots coalesced into a black 

 lunulate line along discocellular vein, partially obscured 

 in the dark ground color over middle of wing but set 

 off by some pale (whitish) dusting along its outer edge; 

 separated blackish dots along terminal margin. Hind 

 wings brownish gray; the veins slightly darkened. 

 Alar expanse, 17-18 mm. 



Male genitalia showing no distinguishing characters 

 from those of preceding species. 



Type localities: Te.xas (tenebrosella, in AMNH, ex 

 Rutgers) ; "America Septentrionalis" (querciocolella, in 

 Paris Mus.) ; Falls Church, Va. (heinrichalis, in USNM). 



Food plant: Oak (larva a leaf tier) . 



Disteibution: Texas; Missouri (Aug.); Virginia, 

 FaUs Church (Apr.). 



In addition to typical examples from the above lo- 

 calities there is before me a series of males and females 

 of a slightly larger average size, 18-20 mm., with a 

 somewhat more diffused and contrasted whitish ante- 

 medial line and little or no trace of the subbasal red 

 patch on forewing and no red on the thorax. On 

 typical tenebrosella the tips of the patagia are shaded 

 with red. The females of these variant examples also 

 have larger genitalia (fig. 803) . They may represent a 

 food plant race or a color form of tenebrosella but hardly 

 anything more. In view of the already obscure specific 

 limits of the described species I do not feel justified in 

 adding a further name. 



The variety is represented in the National Collection 

 from the following localities: Massachusetts, Cohasset 

 (July), Martha's Vineyard (July); New York, Utica 

 (Aug.) ; Maryland, Plummers Isl. (Aug.) ; District oj 

 Columbia, Washington (June) ; North Carolina, Tryon 

 (May) ; Georgia, Atlanta (June) ; Illinois, Decatur 

 (May), Lacon (Jime) ; Missouri, near St. Louis, and one 

 small example from the Miu-tfeldt Collection labeled 

 "1.30 M. apple, 5-8-89." Several of these had been 

 previously misidentified as Oreana leucophaeella (Hulst) . 



240. Salebriaria pumUella (Ragonot), new combination 

 Figures 325, 804 



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



Monograph, pt. 1, p. 344, 1893. — McDunnough, Check list, 



No. 6190, 1939. 

 Salebria georgiella Hulst, Canadian Ent., vol. 27, p. 57, 1895. — 



McDunnough, Check list. No. 6210, 1939. (New synonj'- 



my.) 



Forewing dark gray shaded vdth brown; a rather pale 

 chocolate brown, triangulate patch on inner margin on 

 inner side of antemedial line; the latter narrow, white, 

 its blackish bordering lines broken, and obscure except 

 the inner one on lower half of wing; a similar black 

 border on the inner edge of the chocolate brown patch; 

 on some specimens (especially faded examples) a slight 

 ocherous shading at extreme base of wing; on most fresh 



