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Juania xerophylla, new species 



Figure 23 



Alar expanse 17-18 mm. 



Labial palpus white; second segment largely overlaid with dark 

 gray on outer surface with a few scattered white scales mixed; third 

 segment almost wholly dark gi'ay. Antenna and head blackish 

 fuscous, the latter with a few white scales posteriorly. Thorax white 

 beneath, blackish fuscous above; posterior edge of collar, tip of tegula 

 and posterior tip of thorax white. Ground color of forewing cinereous, 

 more or less overlaid with fuscous, and dark markings blackish 



Figure 23. — Juania xerophylla, new species: ventral view of female genitalia. 



fuscous; basal fifth blackish fuscous, the color extended narrowly 

 nearly to middorsum; from basal third of costa, to slightly beyond 

 middle of dorsum, an outwardly oblique, blackish-fuscous transverse 

 line, wider on costa and in cell; from apical fourth of costa an irregular, 

 narrow, blacldsh-fuscous transverse line extends to tornus; at the 

 end of cell, between the two transverse lines, a white-centered blackish- 



