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specimens a narrowly elongate, grayish fuscous patch 

 on midcosta; some white dusting on inner margin 

 beyond antemedial line and in cell towards its outer 

 margin; subterminal line fine, white, its dark borders 

 obscure; discal spots confluent, forming a narrow, 

 blackish line along discocellular vein: the blackish dots 

 along terminal margin weak, more or less confluent. 

 Hind wing pale smoky fuscous. Alar expanse, 15-17 

 mm. 



Male genitalia with spine from apex of sclerotized 

 costa of harpe projecting straight out beyond apex of 

 cucullus (not curved dorsally as in the other species) . 



Female genitalia with ductus bursae flattened, ribbon- 

 like, sclerotized thi'oughout and dorsoventrally folded 

 towards bursa copulatrix, its lower margin produced at 

 genital opening into a subtriangulate projecting shield 

 with somewhat rounded terminal margin; bursa with 

 nearly half of one side strongly and smoothly sclero- 

 tized. 



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

 Charlotte Harbor, Fla. (georgieUa, in AMNH, ex Rut- 

 gers). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Florida, Charlotte Harbor (Mar.); 

 Texas, Burnet County (Apr.), also 3 examples (c? and 

 99) with only the state locality and without dates; North 

 Carolina, Southern Pines (June, Aug.) . 



Hulst's references to pwmilella in his Phycitidae of 

 N. Amer. (p. 150) are omitted from the above s5Tionymy, 

 since he had misidentified Eagonot's species. The 

 technical description he gives was simply copied from 

 Eagonot's original description. There is no doubt 

 about the synonymy of georgieUa. 



In all examples I have seen, veins 4 and 5 of forewing 

 are rather closely approximate. 



241. Salebriaria firactetella (Hulst), new combination 

 FiGTJEBs 324, 805 



Myelois fructetella Hulst, Canadian Ent., vol. 24, p. 59, 1892. 



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

 p. 115, 1908. 



Salebria fructetella (Hulst) Barnes and McDunnough, Contribu- 

 tions, vol. 3, p. 194, 1916. — McDunnough, Check list, No. 

 6203, 1939. 



Forewing glossy brownish gray shaded with blackish 

 brown and dusted with white; the black shading form- 

 ing a blotch on costa following, and a similar blotch on 

 inner margin preceding the antemedial line, and an 

 obscure dark shade extending from costa near apex 

 obliquely inward across the subterminal line; white 

 dusting limited to a more or less triangulate cloud from 

 midcosta surrounding the upper discal spot and a 

 smaller cloud on costa preceding the antemedial line; 

 antemedial line narrow, slightly oblique, straight or (on 

 some examples) with a slight notch at middle, white and 

 distinctly contrasted against the ground color but with- 

 out appreciable black bordering lines; discal dots sep- 

 arated, blackish; subterminal line obscure, whitish gray, 

 vertical except for a median outward bulge; terminal 

 dots obscure, brown. Hind wing smoky white shading 



to fuscous along termen; veins very slightly darkened. 

 Alar expanse, 15-18 mm. 



Male genitalia distinguished from those of other 

 species in the genus by the spoon-shaped apical projec- 

 tion of gnathos, the V-shape of the sclerotized part of 

 anellus, and the longer cornutus. 



Female genitalia with ductus bursae very short, its 

 median area membranous, a moderately broad sclero- 

 tized and granulate band at genital opening, strongly 

 sclerotized and longitudinally ridged towards junction 

 with bursa; this peculiar sclerotization extending into 

 and occupying nearly half of the bursa, anterior (closed) 

 end of bursa fused into a thickened (but not sclerotized) 

 membrane; remainder of bursa covered by a mat of 

 fine spines. 



Type localities: Blanco County, Tex. (fructetella, 

 in AMNH, ex Eutgers); Kerrville, Tex. (rectistrigella, 

 in USNM). 



Food plant : Oak (larva a leaf feeder) . 



Distribution: Florida, Key West, Orlando (Mar.); 

 Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish (Aug.); Texas, Blanco 

 County (June), Kerrville (May, Jime), Sabinal (Sept.), 

 Shovel Mountain (June, July); Arizona, Williams 

 (Sept.), Missouri (June, reared); District of Columbia 

 (May, Aug., reared); New York, Bellport (June, Sept., 

 reared) . 



Superficially /ritcfefeiZa strikingly resembles Acrobasis 

 amplexella Eagonot (especially the females) . The reared 

 examples before me had been identified to the latter 

 name. The male antennal character and the genitalia 

 of both sexes, however, easily separate the two species. 



64. Quasisalebria, new genus 



Type of genus: Quasisalebria admixta, new species. 



Characters of Salebriaria except: Labial palpus erect, 

 appressed to flattened face. Forewing with vein 8 and 

 9 stalked for slightly more than two-thirds of their 

 lengths. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked for over 

 three-fourths of their lengths; 7 and 8 shortly anas- 

 tomosed beyond cell. 



Male genitalia with costa of harpe sclerotized for its 

 entire length, not appreciably produced at apex, but 

 with a strongly sclerotized, free, articulating arm from 

 base; shieldlike part of anellus with a pair of long, 

 divergent, lateral horns; penis without cornutus. 



Female genitalis with ductus bursae thickened 

 (cartilaginous in texture) except at junction with bursa 

 copulatrix; bursa finely spined only in area adjacent to 

 junction with ductus bursae. 



The type of this genus is, in many respects, close to 

 Salebriaria fructetella and appears to be an aberrant 

 offshoot of Salebriaria. I propose the new generic 

 designation reluctantly; but no other procedure is pos- 

 sible if we are to have any exact definition of genera for 

 the species allied to Salebria. Nothing in our American 

 fauna is properly referable to the latter genus, which is 

 characterized by a forewing with partial scale ridge in 

 the subbasal area; harpe (fig. 332) with erect clasper 

 from near middle and costal margin weakly sclerotized; 



