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two faint, dark discal dots at outer angles of cell; along 

 termen a row of faint blackish dots. Hind wing glossy 

 smoke brown; cilia very slightly paler, nearly concolor- 

 ous with wing. Alar expanse, 16 mm. 



Male genitalia with lateral edges of uncus concave 

 (but not so deeply as in fiskella); apical process of 

 gnathos partially fused, the lobes small, rounded, the 

 posterior fused portion rather broad and forked at apex; 

 vinculum short (as mde as long); penis with a few 

 weakly sclerotized folds, otherwise unarmed. 



Type locality: Taboga Isl., Panamd (Feb., type in 

 USNM). 



Food: Unknown, presumably scales. 



Represented only by the unique type, a male (not 

 female, as stated by Dyar). The tongue is greatly re- 

 duced and less exposed by the labial palpi than that of 

 melanostathma Meyrick, indicating glomis as another 

 direct link between Laetilia and the coccid-feeding 

 Anerastiinae. Its genitalia, however, show that glomis 

 is better placed in the Phycitinae and in Laetilia than 

 with the coccid-feeding complex referred to the Aner- 

 astiinae. 



Baphala, new genus 



Type of genus: Euzophera homoeosomella Zeller. 



Tongue well developed. Antenna pubescent; in male 

 some rough scaling in a very shallow sinus toward base 

 of shaft. Labial palpus obliquely uptiu-ned, reaching 

 to level of or slightly above vertex. Maxillary palpus 

 filiform. Hind wing with veins 7 and 8 anastomosing 

 for most of their length (free end of 8 very short and 

 weak) ; 3 and 5 closely approximate or connate at lower 

 angle of cell; cell less than one-half (little more than 

 one-third) the length of the wing. Abdomen of male 

 with a pair of ventrolateral hair tufts from eighth 

 segment. 



Male genitalia with uncus narrowed at middle, the 

 lateral edges deeply concave, apex rounded; apical 

 process of gnathos a paii- of moderately large lobes 

 fusing and hooked posteriorly; aedeagus smooth; penis 

 with weakly sclerotized wrinklings, otherwise unarmed; 

 vinculum stout, longer than broad. 



Female genitalia with signum a small coarsely dentate 

 plate; bursa copulatrix more or less finely scobinate on 

 inner siu-face; ductus bursae with a sclerotized ventral 

 plate and internal scobinations at genital opening, 

 otherwise smooth; ductus seminalis from anterior end 

 of bursa. 



Larvae predaceous on scale insects. 



The genus is close to but distinct from Laetilia, easily 

 distinguished by its stronger tongue, the sex-scaling on 

 shaft of male antenna, tjie narrower median area of 

 uncus, the abdominal tufts on eighth segment of the male, 

 and the shorter cell and the approximate (rarely connate) 

 condition of veins 3 and 5 of hind wing. Structirral differ- 

 ences separating the species are slight and chiefly in the 

 size and shape of the terminal process of gnathos. 

 Differences in the female signa (usually of specific 

 value) are unreliable in Baphala, for they are as great 

 among individuals of a given species aa they are be- 



tween any two of the species themselves. The hind 

 wings are similarly colored and exhibit the same sexual 

 difference in the several species, whitish and semihyaline 

 in the male, pale smoky fuscous in the female. 



486. Baphala basimaculatella (Ragonot), new combiuation 

 Figures 514, 1006 



Vitula basimaculalella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 15, 

 1887. — Harapson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 82, 

 1901.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6325, 1939. 



Vitula basimaculella Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 179, 1890; 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 431, 1902 (misspelling). 



Laetilia eremiella Dyar, Proo. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, p. 

 54, 1910.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6329, 1939. 

 (New synonymy.) 



Forewing pale whitish gray, very little darker along 

 inner margin; discal dots and transverse dark markings 

 blackish and strongly contrasted especially toward 

 costa; the discal dots normally separated but occasion- 

 ally partially fused. The palest species in the genus 

 and the only one known from the United States. The 

 male type in Paris lacks an abdomen but is obviously 

 what Dyar later described as eremiella. It was sent to 

 Ragonot by C. V. Riley and is labeled "Am. Sept." 

 In the Stainton Collection in the British Museum are 

 two matching specimens from Texas. The male geni- 

 talic figure was drawn from one of these. The two 

 specimens in Paris from Loja, Ecuador, associated by 

 Hampson with basimaculatella are not that species. I 

 have examined the genitalia (male) of one of these Loja 

 specimens but am unable to match them with those of 

 any described species of Phycitinae known to me. 



Alar expanse, 15-19 mm. 



Type localities: United States (basimaculatella, in 

 Paris Mus.); Stockton, Utah (eremiella, in USNM). 



Food: Unknown. Larvae presumably predaceous 

 on coccids. 



Distribution: Texas; Utah, Stockton (Aug.), Provo 

 (July, Aug.). 



4S7. Baphala goyensis (Ragonot), new combination 



Figures 513, 1009 



Zophodia goyensis Ragonot, Nouv. Gen., p. 31, 1888; Monograph, 

 pt. 2, p. 25, 1901. 



Extreme base of forewing blackish fuscous ; contrast- 

 ingly whitish beyond to the broad blackish fuscous 

 antemedial band; latter somewhat irregular, more or 

 less angulate; ground color of wing between lower 

 margin of cell and costa and between antemedial and 

 subterminal transverse markings, whitish; remainder 

 of wing shading to smoky fuscous with only a faint 

 dusting of white at apex; dark border of subter- 

 minal line well contrasted especially towards costa; 

 midcosta contrastingly edged with blackish fuscous; a 

 single rather large discal spot at end of cell (formed by 

 the complete fusion of the ordinary pair of discal dots). 

 Easily identified by the conspicuous discal spot and 

 other blackish fuscous markings. Alar expanse 18-20 



