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tions on its outer surface (the latter are visible only 

 under high magnification and are somewhat exaggerated 

 in fig. 412a). Female genitalia with bursa much re- 

 duced as compared to that of petrella; armed only with 

 two opposed, spined plates. 



Type locality: San Diego, Calif, (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Eremocarpus setigerus. This record 

 from an El Segundo specimen reared by W. D. Pierce. 



DiSTEiBtTTioN: California, El Segundo (Oct.), San 

 Diego (Oct., Nov.). 



A distinct species easily identified by its peculiar 

 wing markings and male genitalia. 



83. Tota, new genus 



Type of genus: Elasmopalpus galdinella Schaus. 



Characters of Adelphia except: Labial palpus con- 

 siderably longer, reaching well above vertex, especially 

 on the male. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked for 

 two-thirds of their lengths. Eighth abdominal segment 

 of male with compound ventral tufts. Male genitalia 

 with complete transtilla (a narrow, angulate, band); 

 aedeagus slender, elongate; penis armed with an elon- 

 gate, sclerotized plate bearing a row of six minute, 

 thornlike spines. Female genitalia with bm-sa simple, 

 without signa, spiaes, or other sclerotization; ductus 

 bursae narrow, tubular, sclerotized throughout its 

 length, not expanded or funnel shaped; genital opening 

 narrow. 



The genus is distinguished from the others in this im- 

 mediate group by its genitalia and the rather long stalk- 

 ing of veios 4 and 5 of hind wing. Like the genus pre- 

 ceding (Adelphia) and that following (Ufa), it appears 

 to be closely related to Elasmopalpus, in which its type 

 and only known species was placed by Schaus. 



355. Tota galdinella (Schaus), new combination 

 Figures 413, 899 



Elasmopalpus galdinella Schaus, Zoologica, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 46, 

 1923. 



Forewing blackish brown with the transverse lines 

 strongly contrasted, narrow, white; some scattered 

 white dusting in the subbasal and outer areas and, on 

 the male, appreciable white dusting over the medial 

 area; antemedial line oblique, irregularly dentate; sub- 

 terminal line zigzag, nearly vertical; no appreciable dis- 

 cal spots; a row of faint, separated, black dots along 

 terminal margiu. Hind wing pale brownish (more 

 whitish on the male) ; the veins faintly darkened and a 

 smoky shade along outer margin. Alar expanse, 18- 

 24 nun. 



Male genitaUa with tegumen longer than greatest 

 width, its terminal margin straight and slightly pro- 

 duced at the lateral angles. Female genitalia with char- 

 acters as given for the genus. 



Type locality: Conway Bay, Indefatigable, Gald- 

 pagos Islands (type in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distbibution: GalIpaqos Islands: "Camp Beta" 

 (Jan.), Conway Bay (Apr.), South Seymore (Apr.). 



84. Genus Ufa Walker 



Ufa Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 79, 1863. (Type of genus: Ufa 

 Venezuelans Walker.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna pubescent; on 

 male with a short, shallow sinus with small scale tuft 

 in base of shaft. Labial palpus oblique in both sexes 

 (except in the female of rubedinella where it is some- 

 what upcurved) ; third segment nearly half the length 

 of second; extending well above vertex. Maxillary 

 palpi as in Adelphia. Venation as in Adelphia except: 

 Vein 3 of forewing on the average, closer to 4 than to 2 ; 

 hind wiugs with vein 4 and 5 anastomosed for about 

 half their lengths (or in some specimens of ruhedinellus 

 and senta stalked for a trifle over half), ceU one-third 

 the length of wing. Eighth abdominal segment of male 

 with compoimd, ventral hair and scale tufts (except on 

 lithosella which has simple hair tufts) . 



Male genitalia without any sclerotized arm or hook 

 arising from base of costa of harpe; the costa strongly 

 sclerotized (in lithosella this sclerotized part of costa 

 terminating well before the apex of the harpe) ; clasper 

 present as a digitate or weak, roimded or triangulate, 

 erect projection from upper edge of sacculus. Anellus 

 a broad plate with short, lateral lobes. Aedeagus stout. 

 Penis armed with a single, stout, rather short, curved 

 spines. 



Female genitalia similar to those of Adelphia; ductus 

 bursae short and broad, more or less funnel shaped, 

 with broad genital opening; ductus seminaUs from 

 bursa well before jimction of bursa and ductus bursae. 



This genus, while sharing many of the characters of 

 Adelphia is closest to Elasmopalpus, from which it is 

 distinguished by its more oblique female labial palpi, 

 the strongly sclerotized costa of harpe, the shape of its 

 aneUus, the stouter, much shorter apical projection of 

 gnathds, and the broader female ductus brusae. 



356. Ufa lithosella (Ragonot), new combination 



FiQTJBEs 414, 903 



Selagia lilhosella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 9, 1887; 



Monograph, pt. 1, p. 474, 1893. — ^Hulst, Phycitidae of N. 



Amer., p. 160, 1890.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 6233, 



1939. 

 Honora luteella Hulst, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 8, p. 223, 



1900. 

 Ancylostomia lithosella (Ragonot) Dyar, Ins, Insc. Menstr., vol. 



7, p. 53, 1919. 



Forewiag pale ocherous; the ground color interrupted 

 by a narrow, paler, cream-colored shade along costal 

 edge, along lower margin of the cell, sometimes along 

 lower fold and (in a few examples) between the veins 

 in outer area; transverse lines obsolete; on some speci- 

 mens a dark grayish spot on vein lb indicates what 

 remains of a dark outer margin to the antemedial line; 

 on occasional examples a dark grayish shade on middle 

 of inner margin; discal dots sometimes absent but the 

 lower one usually distinguishable, minute, blackish; 

 the usual dark dots along outer margin rarely dis- 

 tinguishable and when so only as a slight darkening of 

 the ground color. Hind wing semitransparent white 



