. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CUTINA. 157 cilia white with a slight red-brown line at middle ; the underside irrorated with white, with a curved postmedial line. Hob. , Middle and Southern States, 2 c?, 1 2 , Georgia, 2 S , Florida {DoubleJay), 2 6 , Kansas (Snoiv), 1 d , 1 2, Texas, 2 d . Exp. millim. Genus CUTINA. Cuthia, Wlk. XXXV. 1734 (1866) Type. albopunciella. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to vertex of liead and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ;


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CUTINA. 157 cilia white with a slight red-brown line at middle ; the underside irrorated with white, with a curved postmedial line. Hob. , Middle and Southern States, 2 c?, 1 2 , Georgia, 2 S , Florida {DoubleJay), 2 6 , Kansas (Snoiv), 1 d , 1 2, Texas, 2 d . Exp. millim. Genus CUTINA. Cuthia, Wlk. XXXV. 1734 (1866) Type. albopunciella. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to vertex of liead and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely wi'th scales and without crests; build slender; tibire slightly fringed with hair, the mid tibia? spined, the fore and hind tibiaj not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced and acute, the termen somewhat excised below apex and at middle, 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 the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle: 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 7947. Cutina albopunctella. Cuthm albojmnctcUa, Wlk. xxxv. 1735 (1866); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 194. Erastria sirkpdafaria, Smith, J. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 173 (1900); Dyar, Cat. Lep.'N. Am. p. 209. 6. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some ])ale red- brown ; abdomen grey-white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing. Fig. 47.— Cit/iva alhojnnictel/a, (^. grey-wuite, the intersjmces suffused and irrorated with red-brown, leaving rather diffused white streaks on the veins ; antomedial line very indistinctly marked by black scales, dentate, connected by a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these i


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