PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 102(4), 2000, pp. 838-842 NEW SPECIES OF PUERTO RICAN PHYCITINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE) H. H. Neunzig Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, U.S.A. Abstract. — Zamagiria borinquensis and Oryctometopia maricaoensis are described as new species. Both were collected as adults in western Puerto Rico. Key Words: moths, phycitines, Puerto Rico Post-Columbian Puerto Rico has been subjected to major environmental changes. Agriculture, mainly the extensive growing for many years of sugarcane and coffee, re-placed much of the native vegetation. Some refugia exist, however, chiefly as parks or reserves. These vary from tropical dry for-est to tropical rain forests. Recently, ento-mologists at the Carnegie Museum of Nat-ural History (CMNH) have intensively light-trapped Lepidoptera in these remain-ing pockets of relatively undisturbed flora. Two previously unknown species of phy-citines were collected. These are described below, and are added to the 20 species (Ta-ble 1) previously recorded from Puerto Rico by Heinrich (1956). Zamagiria borinquensis Neunzig, new species (Figs. 1, 3-5) Type locality. — Puerto Rico, Isabela, Bosque Estatal de Guajataca, Montanas Ay-mamon. Diagnosis. — The male and female geni-talia can be used to separate Zamagiria bor-inquensis from other species in the genus. Features peculiar to the new species are the short, triangular inner clasper on the inner base of the valva, the somewhat elongate, spoonshaped apical gnathal process of the male (Fig. 3), and the girdle of robust spines in the corpus bursae of the female (Fig. 5). Description. — Forewing length 6.5-7.0 mm. Head brownish white. Labial palpus white and fuscous. Maxillary palpus white to brownish white, aigrettelike in male. Dorsum of thorax brownish white suffused with fuscous. Forewing brown dusted with white; black ridge of raised, curled scales preceding antemedial line; antemedial line white, weakly developed, with associated adjacent bands of dark scales; postmedial line similar, in color and development, to antemedial line; discal spots black, moder-ately distinct, separate; patch of very pale reddish brown scales at inner base of wing and scattered patches of darker reddish brown on outer % of wing. Underside of male fore and hindwing without patches or streaks of contrasting colored scales (fre-quently seen in other Zamagiria). Male genitalia (Figs. 3, 4): Uncus triangular, nar-rowly rounded distally; apical process of gnathos expanded into a somewhat elongate spoon-shaped process; juxta a U-shaped, thin plate with setiferous lateral arms; tran-stilla absent; valva slender, unarmed except for triangular, erect clasper on its inner base; aedoeagus with single, short, stout, well-sclerotized comutus; vinculum about
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