310 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



FAM. 



CINCIA WALKER. 



Female. Body short, stout, linear. Palpi straight, much shorter 

 than the head ; third joint linear, conical at the tip, much shorter 

 than the second. Antenna slender, serrated, pubescent, a little 

 more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four 

 moderately long spurs. Wings rather broad, not long. Fore 

 wings slightly convex in front, oblique along the apical border, 

 angular behind ; first, second and third inferior veins approximate 

 at the base ; fourth remote from the third. 



1. C. conspersa Walker, 539. 



Whitish or hoary. Palpi blackish towards their tips. Thorax 

 with black dots. Anterior tibiae with black bands. Fore wings 

 sprinkled with black points and with full twenty-four black dots, 

 of which there is a row across each tip ; under side and hind wings 

 blackish. 



Jamaica. 



WALKER. 



FAM. 



ERITHALES POEY. 



Tongue distinct. Palpi cylindrical, produced beyond the head; 

 with the third joint oriform. Antennae of the males strongly pec- 

 tinated. Wings exceeding the abdomen. 



1. E. guacolda Poey. Cent. Lep. Cuba. 



Wings brown ; fore wings partly paler, with many black dots. 

 Abdomen yellow. Body and feet dotted with black. 



'Cuba. 



POET. 



