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Female genitalia with bursa simple, membranous; 

 ductus bursae very slender for half its length from 

 genital opening, thence to bursa swollen, spiraled and 

 armed throughout the spiraled portion with a hne of 

 fine, sharp spines, sclerotized ordy at genital opening; 

 ductus seminalis from ductus biu-sae near genital 

 opening. 



Valdivia is close to Macrorrhinia and Ocala, dis- 

 tinguished by a slightly wider spacing of veins 2, 3 and 

 the stem of 4-5 in forewing, the longer cUia of the 

 male antenna, the slightly stouter aedeagus, the absence 

 of eversible tufts on the male abdomen, the smaller, 

 oval bursa and the spiraled and spined ductus bursae. 

 Three species are recognized as belonging to the genus. 

 A fourth now listed in Valdivia (Maricopa albocostella 

 Hulst) will have to be referred to the Anerastiinae. Its 

 type (c?) in the Rutgers Collection has a greatly reduced 

 tongue, completely enclosed by the labial palpi, vein 4 

 of forewing absent and a slight excavation in the base 

 of the antennal shaft. 



384. Valdivia coquimbella Ragonot 



FiGXTKE 436 



Valdivia coquimbella Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 27, 1888. — Hamp- 

 son, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 191, 1901. 



Forewing fuscous gray; transverse pale lines obscure, 

 the antemedial oblique line preceded by a diffused dark 

 shade, the subterminal line indicated only by a broken, 

 weakly indented line of blackish scaling running parallel 

 to the outer margia; discal dots obscure, blackish; a 

 row of faint black dots along termen. Hind wing very 

 pale smoky fuscous. Alar expanse, 22 mm. 



Male genitalia figured from paratype in the British 

 Museum from the type locality. The type in the Paris 

 Museum is also a male (not a female as stated by Hamp- 

 son) but is without an abdomen. These are the only 

 two examples of the species known. The anellus is 

 much shorter than that in lativiltella. V. coquimbella 

 also lacks any trace of the yellowish spot edging the 

 antemedial line, characteristic of the other two species. 



Type locality: Coquimba, Chile (type in Paris 

 Mus.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



385. Valdivia lativittella (Ragonot) 

 Figures 434, 435, 926, 927 



Ciris lativitlella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 18, 1887. 



Ragonoiia lativitella (Ragonot), Ent. Amer., p. 117, 1889. 



Maricopa lativitella (Ragonot) Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., 

 p. 206, 1800. 



Valdivia lativittella (Ragonot) Hampson, in Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 2, p. 191, 1901.— McDunnough, Check list, No. 

 6352, 1939. 



Zophodia aureomaculella Dyar, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 

 12, p. 107, lt03. (New synonymy.) 



Eumysia aureomaculella (Dyar), Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 13, p. 221, 

 1925.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6296, 1939. 



Paler than coquimbella, the forewing very pale ashy 

 gray; on inner margin at base a pale ocherous spot; a 

 similar somewhat larger spot extending halfway across 



the wing and bordering the antemedial line; on inner 

 margin between the two ocherous patches a blackish 

 fuscous spot (rather pronounced on the male, less so on 

 the female); antemedial line vertical, faint, indicated 

 chiefly by some irregular and broken, outer, blackish 

 fuscous shading; subterminal whitish line more distinct, 

 indented at vein 6 and lower fold and margined inwardly 

 by a narrow dark line; discal and terminal dots blackish 

 fuscous, the latter faint. Hind wing very pale smoky 

 fuscous with a faint ocherous tint; a narrow dark line 

 along termen; veins faintly darkened. Alar expanse, 

 16-21 mm. 



Male genitalia differ from those of coquimbella chiefly 

 in their much longer anellus. 



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

 Bremond, Tex. (aureomaculella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Distribution: United States: Arizona, Baboqui- 

 vari Mts. (July), Greaterville (June), Phoenix (Aug.), 

 Pinal Mts. (Aug.); Texas, Bremond (Apr.), Brownsville 

 (Mar.), San Benito (Mar., May). Mfeico: Durango. 



Twenty-five specimens are before me. A male from 

 Durango, Dyar's tjrpe of aureomaculella from east- 

 central Texas and a series from Arizona exhibit no es- 

 sential differences . The Texan specimens from Browns- 

 ville and San Benito (1 cf and 3 6) show some trifling 

 differences in male genitalia and considerably weaker 

 spining of the ductus bursae in the female (fig. 926), 

 but nothing, however, that would justify specific or 

 even racial separation. Dyar's supposed species is an 

 obvious synonym. He had not recognized either 

 Valdivia or lativittella when he described aureomaculella 

 or, later, transferred it to Eumysia. The key vena- 

 tional character given by Hampson for the separation 

 of lativittella from coquimbella (vein 8 of hind wing "free" 

 from or anastomosed with 7) does not hold. In our 

 Pinal Mountains series of lativittella veins 7 and 8 occur 

 both ways, closely approximate or partially anasto- 

 mosed. 



386. Valdivia walkerella (Ragonot), new combination 



Figure 439 



Saluria walkerella Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 44, 1888. 

 Hypogryphia walkerella (Ragonot) Hampson, in Ragonot, Mono- 

 graph, pt. 2, p. 184, 1901. 



I have seen nothing from Chile that exactly matches 

 Ragonot's description or the figure in his Monograph 

 (pi. 37, fig. 21), but the genitalia of the male type clearly 

 shows it to be a Valdivia and not a member of the Old 

 World genus Hypogryphia where Hampson placed it. 

 Veins 4 and 5 of forewing are shortly stalked and the 

 ocherous spot on inner margin before the antemedial 

 line is present, as in lativittella which it strongly re- 

 sembles in genitalia and general habitus. Alar expanse, 

 18 mm. 



Type locality: Valparaiso, Chile (type in Paris 

 Mus.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Known only from the type. 



