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1. Plutella maculipennis Crt. 
=*azylustella S-D., ete. ; =cruciferurum Z.; =etc. (vide Wism.°). 
Cerostoma maculipennis Crt. Br. Ent. 9 expl. Pl. 420 p. 2 sp. 3 (1832)*. Plutella cruciferarum 
Wism. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1897 117 sp. 153 (1897) *. Plutella maculipennis Wism. & Drnt. 
Ent. Mo. Mag. 83 173-5 (1897)°; Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 187 sp. 2447 (1901)*; Dyar 
Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 492 sp. 5503 (1902)°; Wism. Fn. Haw. 1 652-3, 751 sp. 330 (1907) *. 
Hab. EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA, N-C-S-I. Central America— 
PANAMA: CANAL ZONE: Tabernilla (A. Busch). West Indies*—Banamas: Nassau, 12- 
14. VII. 1898 (J. L. Bonhote)—Jamatca: st. ann: Runaway Bay, 24. 11-11. III. 1905 
_(Wism.)—Porrtorico ?,—South America—Braziu: RIO DE JANEIRO: Petropolis, 1881 
(H. Doer)—ARGENTINA: TUCUMAN: Las Vasquez, 445 m., XII. 1912 (V. Dinelly). 
AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND. OCEANIA. HAWAITA. “ Probably wherever 
man eats cabbages ” (Stn.)°. 
ACROLEPIA Crt. 
= ARGIOPE Chmb. 
Type: Acrolepia autumnitella Crt. (Crt. 1838). 
Acroreria Crt. Br. Ent. 15 expl. Pl. 679 p. 1-2 sp. 1-2 (1838); Stgr-Rbl. Cat. Lp. Pal. 2 232-3 
no. 446 sp. 4474-89 (1901); Dyar Bull. US. Nat. Mus. 52 568 sp. 6471 (1902) ; Wlsm. Fn. 
Haw. 1 726-7, 754 no. 58 sp. 435 (1907). 
1. Acrolepia tharsalea, sp. n. 
Antennae slightly biserrate; delicately annulate with white and greyish fuscous, Palpz olive-grey, the 
median joint thickly tufted beneath, the terminal joint also somewhat roughly clothed. Head rough; 
pale olive-grey. Thoraw olive-grey. orewings olive-grey, with a greenish tinge, slightly speckled with 
white and fuscous, some groups of fuscous speckling along the costa—not occurring on the outer third, 
except cluse to the apex, where they are accompanied by whitish scales ; a conspicuous fuscous spot on the 
middle of the termen is followed by white scales running through the cilia; the basal half of the dorsum 
contains three or four white upright streaks, narrowly margined with fuscous, the one farthest from the 
base wider than the others and tending obliquely outward ; beyond the end of the cell is a transverse 
curved series of fuscous dots accompanied by white scales ; cilia shining, olivaceous, with some brownish 
shade-lines running through them. Swp.al.16mm. Hindwings shining, pale brownish grey; cilia 
with a slight ochreous tinge. Abdomen olivaceous grey. Hind Legs pale olive-grey, with whitish tarsal 
annulations. 
Type 2 (66732) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT. (66733) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. GuaTeMALA: TOTONICAPAM: Totonicapam, 8500-10,500 ft., VIII. 1880 (G. C. 
Champion). ‘Two specimens. 
2. Acrolepia incertella Chmb. 
= dorsimaculella Chmb. 
Heribeia 2 incertella Chmb. Can. Ent. 4 44 (1872) *. Argiope dorsimaculella Chmb. Can. Ent. 5 13, 
174 (1873)?: Bull. US. GG. Surv. 4 130 (1878)*. Acrolepia dorsimaculella Wlsm. Tr. Am. 
