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especially those of the male, seem to rule them out 

 from that species. 



491. Baphala glabrella (Dyar), new combination 



Figures 515, 1008 



Euzophera glabrella Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 57, 1919. 



A suffused, grayish brown species with markings ob- 

 scure, the pale transverse antemedial and subterminal 

 lines and the dark discal dots faintly indicated; general 

 color darker (more brownish) than that of homoeo- 

 somella. Probably only a variety of that species, but 

 a reared series would be needed to determine this. The 

 genitalia show some trifling differences from homoeo- 

 somella, but none that could be classed as specific. 



Alar expanse, 15-16 mm. 



Type locality: Cayuga, Guatemala (Apr., May, 

 June; type in USNM). 



Food: Unknown. 



The species is known only from the original series of 

 five specimens upon which the name was based. 



492. Baphala squalida (Walker), new combination 



Nephopieryx squalida Walker, List, pt. 27, p. 59, 1863. 

 Zophodia squalida (Walker) Ragonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 25, 

 1901. 



I know this species only from photographs of the male 

 type and its genitaha submitted by Tams. The photo- 

 graph of the moth shows a specimen almost completely 

 suffused with blackish fuscous except for a smaU area 

 from outer part of cell to costa. The subterminal pale 

 line of forewing, the two discal dots, and the row of 

 terminal dots are distinct, but the antemedial line and 

 the usually contrasted dark transverse markings are 

 indistinguishable in the general dark suffusion. The 

 hind wing shows the veins strongly outlined by dark 

 scaling and the apical area of the wing darkly clouded 

 (unusual markings for a male of this genus). Alar ex- 

 panse, 20 mm. 



Type locality: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (type in BM). 



Food: Unknown. 



Certain specific application of Walker's name will 

 have to wait upon recovery of more material in reared 

 series from the type locality. If, as I suspect, a series of 

 rather dark homoeosomella in the United States National 

 Museum from Sao Paulo (four males and eight females 

 reared from larvae on wax scales) should prove to be 

 squalida, Walker's name will take precedence and 

 homoeosomella wiU faU as a sjmonym. However, none 

 of our Brazilian specimens is over 16 mm. in expanse 

 and their small size seems to rule them out. 



133. Rhagea, new genus 



Type of genus: Zophodia packardella Ragonot. 



Tongue well developed. Anteima pubescent, shaft 

 simple in both sexes. Labial palpus porrect. Maxil- 

 lary palpus filiform. Hind wing with veins 7 and 8 

 anastomosing for about half their distance beyond cell; 

 3 and 5 stalked. Eighth abdominal segment of male 

 simple. 



Male genitalia with apex of uncus broad, apical 

 process of gnathos bifid, large; aedeagus moderately 

 long and stout; penis with some very weakly sclerotized 

 scobinations or pubescence but without cornutus. 



Female genitalia without signum; bursa copulatrix 

 smooth or (stigmella) minutely scobinate-granulate; 

 ductus bursae with a weak bandlike sclerotized ventral 

 plate or scobinate patch on inner surface at genital 

 opening, otherwise membranous; ductus seminalis from 

 anterior end of bursa. 



Larvae feeding in roots of Crassulaceae or flowers of 

 Orobanchaceae. 



This genus is close to Zophodia Hiibner. It differs in 

 having porrect labial palpi in both sexes, the eighth seg- 

 ment of male simple, the antennal shaft of the male 

 simple and the female bursa without trace of signum. 



493. Rhagea packardella (Ragonot), new combination 



Figures 518, 1012 



Zophodia packardella Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 12, 

 1887.— Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 173, 1890; U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 430, 1903. — Hampson, in Ragonot, 

 Monograph, pt. 2, p. 22, 1901. — McDunnough, Check list, 

 No. 6305, 1939. 



Zophodia orobanchella Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 6, 

 p. Ill, 1904.— McDunnough, Check list. No. 6307, 1939. 

 (New synonymy.) 



Palpi, head, thorax, and forewings white dusted with 

 brown, giving the moth a pale ash gray appearance. 

 Forewing with costal area paler than remainder of 

 wing; no trace of any transverse antemedial line; dark 

 dustings outlining most of the veins and forming rather 

 conspicuous longitudinal lines through center of cell, on 

 basal third of lower vein of ceU, and along the basal 

 third of the fold; a large conspicuous discal spot at end 

 of cell covering the entire crossvein between veins 3 

 and 8 ; subterminal line indicated by dark shading which 

 extends from costa near apex to about vein 2, indented 

 between veins 4 and 6 and distinct only towards costa; 

 terminal margin dark; cilia ash gray. Hind wing pale 

 smoky white, with veins and terminal area slightly 

 darker and a fine dark line along termen; cilia sordid 

 white with slightly darker basal band. Alar expanse 

 18.5-25 mm. 



Male genitalia with vinculum shorter and divided 

 apical process of gnathos larger in proportion to re- 

 mainder of genitalia than those of stigmella. Female 

 genitalia with inner siu-face of ductus bursae finely 

 scobinate-granulate at genital opening; bursa copula- 

 trix minutely and sparsely scobinate. 



Type localities: California (packardella, in Paris 

 Mus.); Wawawai, Wash, (orobanchella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Orohanehe ludoviciana Nutall (larvae 

 feeding in the flowers). 



Distribution: Washington, Wawawai (Aug.); Utah, 

 Provo (July), Eureka (July); California, Dixieland 

 (Apr.); Arizona, Phoenix (Mar.); Colorado, Fort Collins 

 (Sept.). 



Dyar had his specimens of orobanchella under pack- 

 ardella in the National Collection but, to the best of my 

 knowledge, the synonymy had not been pubhshed. 



