. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ESCAEIA. ALEPTIXA. 229 indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; a dark terminal line; cilia pale ; the underside ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hah. , Arizona, Phoenix, 1 c?, 1 $ . Exp, 26 millim. Genus ALEPTINA. Type. Akptina. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 105 (1902) inca. Proboscis aborted and rather slight; palpi obliquely porrect, slenderly scaled and extending to extremity of the large flattened corneous plate at middle of frons, a corneou
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ESCAEIA. ALEPTIXA. 229 indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; a dark terminal line; cilia pale ; the underside ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. Hah. , Arizona, Phoenix, 1 c?, 1 $ . Exp, 26 millim. Genus ALEPTINA. Type. Akptina. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 105 (1902) inca. Proboscis aborted and rather slight; palpi obliquely porrect, slenderly scaled and extending to extremity of the large flattened corneous plate at middle of frons, a corneous plate below the frons excised in front; eyes large, I'ound; antennae of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards middle. 3846. Aleptina inca. Alepiina inca, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 105 (1902); id. Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 107. Head and thorax black mixed with white, the frons above and back of head mostly white ; pectus white ; tarsi black ringed wiih white; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface whitish irrorated brown. Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with black and white, the basal area whitish except before costal half of. Fig. 54.—Aleptma inca, J". |. antemedial line, which is double, black, angled outwards below costa and cell; claviform slight, rarrow, elongate, defined below by black and white ; orbicular with brown centre and white annulus defined by black, large, round; reniform grey with faint white annulus, undefined, an oblique white shade from costa before sub- term
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