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592. Vitula inanimella (Dyar), new combination 

 Figure 1089 



Moodna inanimella Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 54, p. 372, 



1918. 

 Euzophera licitoa Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 56, 1919 



(new synonymy). 



A suffused gray-brown species with transverse lines 

 faintly indicated by their very slightly darker borders; 

 similar in maculation to edmandsae, but more uniformly 

 colored. The genitalia are also similar, those of the 

 males differing only in insignificant details, the differ- 

 ences no greater than those between individuals of 

 edmandsae. Female genitalia have the bursae smooth 

 except for the band of scobinations near signum and the 

 signa themselves smaller. The type of ticitoa (fig. 

 1089a) has one signum, the female paratype of inani- 

 mella from Orizaba, Mexico (fig. 1089) has two signa, a 

 difference of not specific significance in this genus or the 

 allied Ephestia groups. The type of ticitoa shows a 

 vestige of vein 9 on one forewing which probably ac- 

 counts for Dyar's placement of it in Euzophera. I am 

 unable to find a valid character for separating Dyar's 

 supposed species and am therefore sinking ticitoa into 

 the synonjony of inanimella. Alar expanse, 20-21 mm. 



Type localities: Zacualpdn, Mexico (inanimella, in 

 USNM); Volcdn Santa Maria, Guatemala (ticitoa, in 

 USNM). 



Food plants: Unknown. 



Distribution: Mexico: Orizaba, Zacualpan (May). 

 Guatemala: Volcdn Santa Maria (May). 



Represented in the National Collection only by the 

 original type series of two males and three females. 



593. Vitula laura (Dyar), new combination 



Figure 1091 

 Euzophera laura Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menstr., vol. 7, p. 56, 1919. 



Forewing dark purplish gray, costal area white; 

 antemedial line indicated by an oblique blackish band 

 extending across the white area and obsolete below; 

 subterminal line white, thin, parallel with and rather 

 close to costa, evenly curved, bordered before and 

 beyond by narrow bands of the dark ground color; some 

 faint white dusting bordering termen; discal dots dis- 

 tinct, separate, black; a row of faint blackish dots along 

 terminal margin. Hind wing a glossy smoky brown; 

 veins and terminal margin darker. Alar expanse, 20 

 mm. 



Female genitalia with bursa copulatrLx finely, evenly, 

 and sparsely scobinate; signum a cluster of a half-dozen 

 small discs; ductus bursae with a sclerotized collar for- 

 ward of the short sclerotized area from genital opening. 



Type locality: Cayuga, Guatemala (July; type in 

 USNM). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



Known only from the unique female type. It is 

 obviously not a Euzophera, and in habitus and female 

 genitalia is not too good a Vitula, in which genus it is 

 placed only provisionally. A male will be necessary 

 for definite placement. Vein 9 of forewing is absent 



and the venation otherwise and the female genitalia 

 indicate that it belongs somewhere in the Moodna- 

 Vitula complex. 



174. Genus Manhatta Hulst 



Hornigia Ragonot, N. Amer. Phycitidae, p. 16, 1887. (Type of 

 genus: Ephestia biviclla Zeller; Europe; figs. 113, 601, 1092.) 



Manhatta Hulst, Phycitidae of N. Amer., p. 196, 1890 (new 

 name for Hornigia Ragonot 1887, preoccupied by Hornigia 

 Ragonot 1885 in Galleriidae). 



Characters of Vitula except veins 3 and 5 of hind 

 wing connate. 



Hampson (in Eagonot, Monograph, pt. 2, p. 267, 

 1901) made Manhatta a synonym of Moodna, apparently 

 on the connate condition of veins 3 and 5 of the hind 

 wing of biviella. This synonymy cannot stand if we 

 are to maintain any generic separation between Moodna 

 and Vitula; for Manlmtta has only the hind wing vena- 

 tion and somewhat longer hind wing cell of Moodna. In 

 other characters (simple male antenna and complete 

 transtilla) it agrees with Vitula, thus occupying an inter- 

 mediate position between the two genera, but appar- 

 ently more closely related to Vitula than to Moodna. 

 In addition to its type (biviella), the only European 

 representative of the Mooc?na-Fi<tfZa complex, it contains 

 two North American species. 



594. Manhatta setonella (McDixnnough), new combination 

 Figures 602, 1093 



Moodna setonella McDunnough, Canadian Ent., vol. 59, p. 270, 

 1927; Check list. No. 6398, 1939. 



Forewing whitish gray, more or less dusted with 

 blackish scales on lower half of wing, giving that area a 

 somewhat smoky tint; black discal spots and borders of 

 the transverse lines strongly contrasted, the transverse 

 lines themselves not distinguishable from the ground 

 color of wing and indicated only by their black borders; 

 antemedial line bordered outwardly only, the black 

 border normally straight and obUque, but in some 

 specimens slightly angled; subterminal line bulging 

 slightly at middle, bordered inwardly by a narrow black 

 line and outwardly by a black dash at costa, continu- 

 ing as a paler shade to inner margin ; discal dots distinct, 

 separate; a few obsciu-e blackish dots on terminal mar- 

 gin, beguming below apex and ending above tornus. 

 Hind wings semihyaline, whitish with veins and terminal 

 margin pale smoky fuscous. Alar expanse, 14-16 mm. 



Male genitalia with costa of harpe produced at apex 

 into a short free spur. Female genitalia with ductus 

 bursae sclerotized for half its length from genital opening, 

 the sclerotized portion constricted at middle; a small 

 sclerotized patch at junction of ductus and bursa; spin- 

 ing of bursa as in typical Vitula. 



Type locality: Seton Lake, British Columbia (June; 

 type in Canadian Nat. Coll.). 



Food plant: Unknown. 



In addition to female parat3T)es from the type locality 

 there are in the U. S. National Collection two males from 

 Eureka and Provo, Utah (June). The species is easily 



