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with a more or less pale smoky tint; the veins and 

 terminal margin not appreciably darkened, except on 

 the darkest specimens. Alar expanse, 26.5-32 mm. 



Male genitalia with harpe very short, its costa 

 broadly and strongly sclerotized, the sclerotized costal 

 area terminating in an abrupt projection, well before 

 apex of cucullus. Lateral lobes of anellus knoblike. 

 Cornutus a short, stout, slightly curved, bluntly 

 pointed, hornlike thorn with a few minute serrate 

 projections on one side. Eighth abdominal segment 

 of male with a single pair of ventrolateral hair tufts. 



Female genitalia with bursa armed with one large and 

 one small, round, strongly spined plate; the ductus 

 seminalis from bursa near the caudal margin of the 

 smaller plate; ductus bursae smooth except for a 

 slight, irregularly shaped sclerotization near genital 

 opening. 



Type localities: Arizona (lithosella, in Paris Mus.) ; 

 Santa Rita Mts., Ariz, (luteella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Arizona, Baboqui- 

 vari Mts. (July, Oct.), Chiricahua Mts., Huachuca 

 Mts., Nogales (May), Palmerlee, Paradise (Cochise 

 Coimty, Mar.), Santa Rita Mts. (June), Wilgus (Co- 

 chise County); New Mexico, Albuquerque. Mi;xico: 

 Cuernavaca (June), Durango (city), Mexico (city, Oct.), 

 Venadio (Sinaloa), Zacualpdn (June). 



A distinct species, easily recognized by its genitalia 

 and obviously not closely related to Selagia where it 

 was placed by Ragonot, nor to Ancylostomia where it 

 was placed in the National Collection by Dyar. 



357. Ufa roseitincteUa (Dyar), new combination 



Ancylostomia roseitincteUa Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 

 p. 105, 1912. 



Forewing pale ocherous, the ground color suffused 

 with pale rose red broadly along inner margin and costa 

 and over most of median and outer areas; the ocherous 

 color on most specimens limited to the basal area and 

 (on a few examples) to a nan-ow, pale, longitudal shade 

 through the middle of the wing; transverse hnes obso- 

 lete; discal dots minute, but usually distinguishable 

 (at least the lower one), blackish, separated; terminal 

 dots absent. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous, with a 

 very faint ocherous tint; the veins very sHghtly dark- 

 ened and a faint, dark line along termen. Alar expanse, 

 26-32 mm. 



Female genitalia similar to those of lithosella. 



Type locality: Cuernavaca, Mexico (type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Arizona, Huachuca 

 Mts. (Sept.), Paradise (Cochise County, July, Oct.), 

 Washington Mts., Wilgus Mts. Mexico: Cuernavaca 

 (July). 



This species is known only from females. It is very 

 close to and may only be a color form of lithosella, but 

 this cannot be determined imtil a male is recovered. 

 The Arizona specimens were in our collection under 

 (Selagia) Zamagiria australella (Hulst). 



358. Ufa Benta, new epecies 

 Figures 415, 905 



Forewing pale canary yellow with a narrow brownish 

 red shade along inner margin; costa pale on outer half, 

 whitish with a fine, sparse peppering of fuscous scales; 

 from apex inward along vein 6 a reddish fuscous streak 

 continued, on most specimens, as a faint, more or less 

 interrupted, dark shade along top of cell to base of wing; 

 lower discal spot minute, but usually distinct, dull red; 

 cilia peppered, ashy gray white. Hind wing translucent 

 white with a smoky shade towards outer margin; veins 

 in outer area of wing faintly darkened; a narrow fuscous 

 shade along termen. Alar expanse, 22-25 mm. 



Male genitalia having harpe with costa sclerotized to 

 apex; clasper moderately long, slender, digitate. Anellus 

 with lateral lobes moderately long, strongly sclerotized, 

 tapering to blunt points. Cornutus a sharply curved, 

 strong, rather slender spine with a broad base. 



Female genitaha with bursa rather narrowly elongate 

 with a lateral lobe near jimction of bursa and ductus 

 bursa; signa consisting of two greatly elongated oval 

 lobes densely armed with long, slender spines; a second 

 cluster of minute spines adjacent to the posterior, 

 lateral lobe; ductus bursa short, triangulate, sclerotized 

 almost to genital opening. 



Type locality: Big Bend, Tex. (type in USNM, 

 61363; paratype, rf", in BM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Described from male type from the type locality 

 (Apr. 15, 1926); four male and one female paratypes 

 from Palmerlee, Ariz.; and one female paratype from 

 the Huachuca Mts., Ariz. 



A distinct, easily recognized species, apparently near 

 to rubedinella Zeller. 



359. Ufa rubedinella (Zeller), new combination 

 FiauREs 416, 902 



Pempelia rubedinella Zeller, Isia von Oken, 1848, p. 885; Verb. 



zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., vol. 24, p. 430, 1874; Horae See. Ent. 



Rossicae, vol. 16, p. 181, 1881. 

 Acrobasis translucida Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 29, 1863. 

 Nephopteryx rufescentalis Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 58, 1863. 

 Nephopleryx minualis Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 60, 1863. 

 Nephopteryx deprivalis Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 60, 1863. 

 Ufa Venezuelans Walker, List, vol. 27, p. 60, 1863. 

 Elasmopalpus pyrrhochrellus Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 23, 1888; 



Monograph, pt. 1, p. 429, 1893 (new synonymy). 

 Elasmopalpus rubedinellus (Zeller) Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 23, 



1888; Monograph, pt. 1, p. 340, 1893.— Wolcott, Journ. 



Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 134, 1941. 



Forewing a pale, glossy ocherous, more or less shaded 

 and marked with red or reddish brown; the females 

 usually darker and showing more of the reddish shading 

 than the males, some examples entirely suffused with 

 red except for a contrasted, whitish or very pale ocher- 

 ous shade along costa; three small but conspicuous 

 blackish or dark reddish dots in median area, two well 

 out from base, obhquely placed on lower vein of cell 

 and vein lb, and one at lower outer angle of cell (on 

 some specimens indications of another dot at costa 

 opposite the one on vein lb and, very rarely, faint 



