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graphis it is at least as long as the bursa. In Stavdin- 

 geria it is much shorter than the bursa. 



389. Staudingeria albipenella (Hulst) 

 Figures 443, 930 



Pempelia albipenella Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 3, p. 133, 1887. 

 Staudingeria albipennella (Hulst) Ragonot, Ent. Amer., vol. 5, p. 



116, 1889; Monograph, pt. 2, p. 136, 1901.— Dyar, Proc. Ent. 



Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 38, 1905.— Hulst, Phycitidae of 



N. Amer., p. 186, 1890. 

 Staudingeria olivacella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 6, 



p. Ill, 1904. 

 Staudingeria perluteella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 6, p. Ill, 1904. 

 Staudingeria albipenella (Hulst), McDunnough, Check list. No. 



6337, 1939. 



Variable in color and intensity of markings, ranging 

 from a form with forewing a uniform luteous ocherous 

 without definite markings, though forms more or less 

 dusted and clouded with blackish fuscous, to a form 

 with a clear red ground color and gradations of this 

 with the red more or less overlaid with blackish fuscous 

 scaling; costal edge white or whitish from base to just 

 before apex, the whitish costal margin sometimes very 

 thin and obscure but more often contrasted against the 

 ground color; transverse lines obsolete or obscure, in 

 better marked specimens chiefly indicated by their dark 

 marginal shadings; such shadings on subterminal line 

 deeply indented at vein 6 and slightly indented at lower 

 fold; ciHa pale luteous ocherous, ocherous fuscous, or red, 

 concolorous with the ground color. Hind wing from 

 very pale to dark smoky fuscous. Fore and hind wings 

 have a slick, glossy sheen. Alar expanse, 18-27 mm. 



Male genitalia with uncus tapering to a blunt point, 

 its lateral margins curved; anellus with very short 

 lateral lobes; aedeagus somewhat stouter than that of 

 Heterographis; vinculum very slightly tapered, terminal 

 margin broad and with a shallow indentation. Female 

 genitalia with bursa copulatrix a long tube terminating 

 in a small roimd bulb; signimi consisting of an irregular 

 cluster of separate spines in the bulbous part of bursa, 

 a scattering of similar spines in the anterior half of the 

 tube and a small cluster of much shorter spines in the 

 tube near junction of ductus bursae; ductus not appreci- 

 ably sclerotized near genital opening. 



Type localities: Southern California (albipenella, 

 in AMNH, ex Rutgers) ; Pullman, Wash, (olivacella, in 

 USNM); Fort Collins, Colo, (perluteella, in USNM). 



Food plant: "Loco weed." 



Distribution: New Mexico, Fort Wingate (May); 

 Arizona, Phoenix (Apr.), Woodruff (June); California, 

 San Diego (June); Colorado, Denver (July, Sept.), Fort 

 Collins, Glenwood Springs (June, July) ; Utah, Provo, 

 Richfield (June), Stockton (July, Aug., Sept.); Wyo- 

 ming, Yellowstone Park (July) ; Idaho, Blackfoot (June), 

 Sawtooth (June); Oregon, Bone Springs (Blue Mts., 

 July), Crater Lake (July); Washington, Godman 

 Spring (Blue Mts., July), Pullman (Aug., Sept.), 

 Vantage Ferry (May), Walla Walla (May, Jime, July), 

 Wenatchee (May, June, July, Aug.), Yakima (May). 



Dyar's two names (olivacella and perluteella) appear 



as racial designations in our lists but the differentiation 

 is not justified, for there is complete intergradation 

 between them and albipenella in any considerable 

 series from a given locality. The most outstanding 

 color form is exemplified in a series from Crater Lake, 

 Oreg. This is a clear, shining red variety, matched 

 only in some specimens from Idaho and Washington. 

 However there are intergrades in these localities and 

 one in the Crater Lake series between the red form and 

 the type of albipenella, so I do not feel justified in 

 adding another name. As in Heterographis we appear 

 to have only one clear-cut American species of the Old 

 World genus Staudingeria, and it seems limited in its 

 distribution to the Western States. It is easily identi- 

 fied by its genitalia. 



100. Genus Hulstia Ragonot 



Hulslia Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. x, 1901. — Hampson, in 



Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 127, 1901. 

 Huhtea Hulst, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 432, 1903. (Spelling. 



Type of genus: Nephopteryx undulatella Clemens.) 



Tongue well developed. Antenna simple, finely pu- 

 bescent. Labial palpus upturned; rather broadly and 

 smoothly scaled; third segment short, pointed. Maxil- 

 lary palpus small, squamous, appressed to face. Fore- 

 wing smooth; 11 veins; vein 2 from near lower outer 

 angle of cell; 3 from the angle; 4 and 5 stalked, the 

 stalk closely approximate to 3 at base; 6 from below 

 upper angle of cell, straight; 10 from the cell, at base 

 connate or very closely approximate to 8-9 ; male with- 

 out costal fold. Hind wing with vein 2 from close to 

 outer angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked ; 7 and 8 contiguous 

 or partially anastomosed for a short distance beyond 

 cell; cell slightly less than one-half the length of wing; 

 discocellular vein curved. Eighth abdominal segment 

 of male with a pair of short, ventrolateral hair tufts. 



Male genitalia with apical process of gnathos a stout, 

 blunt hook. Elements of incomplete transtiUa, small 

 and weak. Harpe simple, narrowly elongate; apex 

 rounded. Anellus a narrowly elongate plate with 

 strongly sclerotized margin and short lateral lobes (re- 

 sembling an elongate and closed U). Aedeagus long, 

 moderately slender. Vinculum as broad as long, squar- 

 ish, terminal margin nearly straight. 



Female genitaha with bursa copulatrix long, tapering 

 and expanding gradually from ductus bursae; demarca- 

 tion of bursa from ductus obscure; signa consisting of 

 a dense mass of straight, short, rather slender spines 

 with small bases and filling about half the bursa. 

 Ductus bursae short, with a strongly sclerotized, acutely 

 bent elbow before genital opening; genital opening 

 simple. Ductus seminalis from ductus bursae just 

 before sclerotized elbow. 



Hulstia is very close to Heterographis and Staudin- 

 geria, agreeing with them in most structural characters 

 and differing chiefly in the more pronounced stalking 

 of veins 4 and 5 of forewing, the closer approximation 

 of vein 10 to the stalk of 8-9 at base, its much reduced 

 transtilla, the shape of the female bursa, the densely 



