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JOCARA ELEGANS SchaUS. 



1912, Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8), IX, 658, Jocara. 



Thirteen specimens of this species are in the Barnes Collection 

 from San Benito and Brownsville, Texas. Two males and one female 

 have been compared with the type and series in the Schaus Collection 

 at the National Museum by Messrs. Heinrich and Schaus. Specimens 

 show considerable variation in both maculation and venation, but ac- 

 cording to genitalic slides of tropical material made by Mr. Heinrich> 

 only a single species is involved. 



Tetralopha spaldingella sp. nov. 



Palpi ochreous. Head and thorax ochreous-rufous. Abdomen ochreous. 

 Primaries : ground color violaceous-grey powdered with black ; basal-t.a. area 

 suffused with ochreous and rufous; t. a. line black, double, included space pale 

 violaceous-grey, outwardly oblique from costa to inner margin ; median shade 

 line an irregular series of black tufts; t. p. line black, followed by a pale shade, 

 erect between costa and radius, thence bent at a right angle and excurved 

 around cell, incurved below vein 5, outwardly produced to points on the veins ; 

 s. t. shade line almost parallel to the outer margin, produced to long points on 

 the veins which are more or less marked with fuscous scales; a terminal line 

 of black dots between the veins; fringe pale grey with a darker interline which 

 is more or less broken into dots. Secondaries : whitish, heavily suffused with 

 fuscous and appearing grey, a faint median shade line often obsolescent, a thin 

 dark terminal line; fringe yellow at base, followed by a fuscous interline, white 

 tips. Beneath : whitish ; primaries suffused with fuscous and appearing grey, 

 some of the maculation of the upper side showing through; secondaries suffused 

 and powdered with fuscous, especiallj^ on costal margins ; each of the wings 

 with a black terminal line broken into dots by the veins ; fringes as on upper 

 side. 



Expanse: 23-25 mm. 



Allied to aplastella Hulst, but a more contrasty insect, the och- 

 reous and red shades disconcolorous, contrasting; the anal portion of 

 the basal scale tuft red in the present species, black in aplastella. 



A specimen from the White Mts., Ariz., in the Barnes Collection, 

 may be conspecific. 



Type locality: Stockton, Utah (Tom Spalding). 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype $, l-VIII-14; Allotype 9, 16-VII- 

 13; 4 ^ Paratypes, 19-VIM3, 19-VI-14, l-VII-14, 2-Vn-14. 



