130 



ITNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 207 



ocherous white to smoky white. Alar expanse, 23-27 

 mm. 



Alar expanse, 23-27 mm. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos tri- 

 angulate. Transtilla weak but distinguishable. Clasper 

 erect and slightly curved, slender, digitate. One 

 moderately sized and one much smaller cornutus on 

 penis. Female genitaha with a single moderately large 

 granulate patch on posterior lateral corner of bursa and 

 extending in weaker granulation transversely across the 

 middle of the lower surface. 



Type localities: Colorado {termitalis, in AMNH, 

 ex Rutgers); "Amherst, Massachusetts" [sic] (leviga- 

 tella, in AMNH, ex Rutgers). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Colorado, Glenwood 

 Springs, Gunnison County near Altmont, and two 

 examples (cf , 9) with only the state locality; Utah, 

 Spanish Fork (July); Arizona, Prescott (June); Cali- 

 Jornia, Inyo Coimty (Jime), Placer County (June). 

 Canada: Ontario, Trenton (July), Manitoba, Winni- 

 peg; Alberta, Bilby (June); British Columbia, Clinton 

 (June). 



Hulst also gives Massachusetts and Wisconsin as 

 localities for his levigatella. His type of the latter how- 

 ever has no locality label. A female of levigatella from 

 the Fernald Collection is in the National Collection. 

 It also bears a Hulst "t3rpe" label, but no locality or 

 date. The type of termitalis is a male, not a female as 

 given in Hulst's original description. Genitalia of 

 conspecific females from western locaUties agree in every 

 detail with those of the type of levigatella so there can 

 be no question of the synonymy of the two Hulst names. 



The labial palpi appear a trifle oblique (less tightly 

 appressed to the face than on most of the preceding 

 species) which may account for Ragonot's reference of 

 the species to Myrlaea. 



264. Nephopteryx termitalis yuconella (Dyar), new status 



Salehria yuconella Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 13, p. 12, 1925. — 

 McDunnough, Check list, No. 6194, 1939. 



A slightly darker more suffused local race of termitalis; 

 the basal area of forewing almost entirely suffused with 

 blackish except for a narrow grayish white shade along 

 inner margin of the black inner border of the antemedial 

 line; no appreciable red or orange shading anjrwhere on 

 forewing or thorax. Alar expanse, 25-27 mm. 



Genitalia: Male and female as in typical termitalis. 



Type locality: Near Fort Yukon, Alaska (type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Alaska: Dawson (June), Fort Yukon. 



Specimens of yuconella as of typical termitalis show 

 a strong tendency to become greasy with age, indicating 

 that their larvae are borers; but nothing is known about 

 the biology of either form. 



265. Nephopteryx bifasciella Hulst 

 FiGtTBEs 343, 831 



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



Salehria bifasciella (Hulst) Ragonot, Ent. Amer., vol. 5, p. 115, 

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

 of N. Amer., p. 154, 1890. — Barnes and McDunnough, 

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

 list, No. 6214, 1939. 



Salehria nogalesella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, 

 p. 35, 1905.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6215, 1939. 

 (New synonymy.) 



Forewing ash gray with a fine powdering of black 

 scales, giving the wing a faint pale bluish tint; the black 

 borders of the transverse lines strongly contrasted; 

 antemedial line distinct, at least from below upper vein 

 of cell, narrow, slightly oblique and somewhat angulate 

 at middle, its outer black border complete, slightly 

 broadened at costa, its inner black border narrow, 

 extending from inner margin only to top of cell; sub- 

 terminal line sinuate, bordered iawardly by a narrow 

 black line, and outwardly by a much fainter, paler 

 dark line; discal dots usually distinguishable but faint, 

 separate or confluent (sometimes both ways on the 

 same specimen); dots along terminal margin very 

 faint, more or less confluent. Hind wing white with a 

 very faint ocherous or smoky tint, slightly darker on 

 female than on male. Alar expanse, 20-22 mm. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos tri- 

 angulate. Clasper sharply curved and running close 

 and parallel to surface of harpe, simple and strongly 

 sclerotized. Cornuti rather short, but individually 

 variable in size. There is also some slight variability 

 in the size and shape of the apical process of gnathos. 

 The genitalia of the type of bija^ciella and those of its 

 synonym nogalesella are more nearly ahke than those 

 of any other two males before me. Female genitaha 

 with bursa nearly round, armed with two large granulate 

 patches, arranged as in figure 831 but with the position 

 of the anterior patch (at closed end of bursa) somewhat 

 variable. In one specimen from Palmerlee there is a 

 third patch on the right side of bursa and the bursa 

 itself is narrower and considerably elongated. These 

 differences probably represent nothkig more than 

 individual aberrations. Males from the same locality 

 are normal. 



Type localities: Arizona (bijasciella, in AMNH, 

 ex Rutgers); Nogales, Ariz, (nogalesella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: Arizona, Baboquivari Mts. (July), 

 Huachuca Mts. (July, Aug.), Nogales (July), Palmerlee, 

 Redington, "Southern Arizona" (Aug.), and two ex- 

 amples with only the state locahty. 



266. Nephopteryx uviiiella (Ragonot), new combination 



FiGTJBEs 344, 824 



Meroptera uvinella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 8, 1887; 

 Monograph, pt. 1, p. 315, 1893. — Hulst, Phycitidae of N. 

 Amer., p. 148, 1890. — McDunnough, Check list. No. 6183, 

 1939. 



