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Type liOCALiTT: Goya, Argentina (type in Paris 

 Mus.). 



Food: Black and wax scales (Ceroplastes and Saissetia 

 spp.). 



Distribution: Southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, Ar- 

 gentina. Six specimens are before me: A male collected 

 by Schaus at Castro, Parand, Brazil; another Brazilian 

 male without locality label, reared from a larva feeding 

 on a Ceroplastes and received from Dr. Costa Lima; and 

 four females reared at the South American Parasite 

 Laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and 

 Plant Quarantine, at Montevideo, Uruguay, from 

 larvae feeding on black and was scales. 



488. Baphala goyensis olivacea, new race 

 Figure 1010 



Similar in color and markings to goyensis except that 

 the thorax and the dark marldngs on forewing are 

 oHvaceous rather than blackish fuscous, and the discal 

 dots at end of cell are usually separated and not fused 

 into a single conspicuous dark spot. Alar expanse, 

 18-20 mm. 



The genitalia show no characters of specific signifi- 

 cance to distinguish them from those of typical goyensis. 



Type locality: Posadas, Argentina (type in USNM, 

 61378; paratypes in Paris Mus. and BM). 



Food: Scale insects (not identified) . 



Described from male type and two male and six 

 female paratypes from type locaHty, reared (Dec, Jan.) 

 under No. 578-7, at the South American Parasite 

 Laboratory of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and 

 Plant Quarantine, at Montevideo, Uruguay, from larvae 

 predaceous on scales; and one female para type from 

 Metdn, Argentina (Apr.). This last is from the col- 

 lection of the British Museum and had been identified 

 as squalida Walker. Judging from a photograph of the 

 type of Walker's species I do not think it could possibly 

 be that species. Even in its somewhat faded condition 

 the olivaceous color of the thorax and dark forewing 

 markings are distinctly discernible. If this color had 

 been present in the type of squalida, Walker or Kagonot 

 would certainly have mentioned it. 



439. Baphala homoeosomella (Zeller), new combination 

 FlGUEES 517, 1011 



Euzophera homoeosomella Zeller, Horae Soc. Ent. Rossicae, vol. 



16, p. 231, 1881. — Hampson, in Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, 



p. 61, 1901. 

 Vitula bodkini Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 1, p. 99, 1913; Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, p. 339, 1914 (new synonymy). 

 Vitula rusto Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, p. 338, 1914 



(new synonymy). 

 Vitula taboga Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, p. 339, 1914 



(new synonymy). 

 Vitula saisseliae Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 31, p. 



16, 1929 (new synonymy). 



A pale brownish gray species, averaging smaller than 

 either basimaculatella or goyensis and with the trans- 

 verse dark markings on forewing weakly contrasted, 

 much obscured in some specimens; discal dots when 

 distinguishable small, not fused; the whitish dusting 



limited chiefly to a shade along costa and some pale 

 dusting in basal area. Alar expanse, 11—16 mm. 



There are no male genitalic structm-al characters to 

 separate any of Dyar's supposed species from tyi)ical 

 homoeosomella and only trifling and inconsistent color 

 differences to distinguish them from each other. The 

 females show considerable variation in their signa, but 

 as much or more among specimens of any one of the 

 forms as between typical females of the forms them- 

 selves. The greatest variation is shown among speci- 

 mens from a reared series of typical saissetiae (figs. 

 lOllb-f). 



Type localities: Honda, Colombia (homoeosomella, 

 in BM); Georgetown, British Guiana (bodkini, in 

 USNM) ; Paraiso (rusto, in USNM), Taboga Isl. (taboga, 

 in USNM), Barro Colorado Isl. (saissetiae, in USNM), 

 all in Canal Zone, Panamd. 



Food: Saissetia spp. and Ceroplastes spp. (wax and 

 black scales), Toumayella sp. 



Distribution: Cuba. Virgin Islands: St. Croix 

 (July). Panama Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Isl. 

 (May), Paraiso (May), Taboga Isl. (Feb.), Rio Trinidad 

 (May). British Guiana: Georgetown (June). Co- 

 lombia: Honda (Apr., Aug., Sept.). Brazil: Sao 

 Paulo (Feb.). 



The most widely distributed and apparently the 

 commonest phycitine predaceous on scales in tropical 

 America. 



490. Baphala haywardi, new species 

 Figures 516, 1007 



In color and marldngs similar to the more strongly 

 marked color forms of homoeosomella, the female hardly 

 distinguishable from the female paratype of saissetiae; 

 basal area of forewing, midcostal area above cell, and 

 terminal area beyond subterminal line rather strongly 

 dusted with whitish scales; dark transverse antemedial 

 band pale grayish brown, outwardly angulate and 

 diffusing into a similar shade through most of area be- 

 tween inner margin and cell; sinuate subterminal white 

 line bordered inwardly and outwardly by pale grayish 

 brown; discal dots at end of cell similarly colored; a row 

 of somewhat darker dots along termen. Alar expanse, 

 15-16 mm. 



Male genitalia with vinculum shorter and apical 

 process of gnathos stouter than those of homoeosomella 

 or any of the other described species of the genus. 

 Female genitalia with fine scobinations of bursa dis- 

 tributed over most of inner surface; sclerotization of 

 ductus bursae at genital opening weaker than that of 

 homoeosomella (compare figs. 101 Ih and 1007). 



Type locality: Concordia, Entre Eios, Argentina 

 (type in USNM, 61379). 



Food: Ceroplastes grandis. 



Described from male type and female paratype from 

 type locality, reared by K. J. Hayward from larvae 

 feeding on the large wax scale (cT, "9-4-1935," 9, 

 "14-VII-1935," Hayward No. 3185). They were sub- 

 mitted as examples of homoeosomella, which they could 

 easily be on color and markings; but their genitalia, 



