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SiccT. II. Antenna; of male serrate and fasciculate. 



*1665. Trichopolia serrata. 



Trichopolia serrata, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 479 (1900); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 161. 



S . Head and thorax dai'k brown with a few ochrcous scales ; 

 abdomen dull grey. Fore wing ochreoiis suffused with fuscous 

 brown, the markings rather indistinct; subbasal line pale, defined 

 by some black scales on each side ; antemedial line double, filled in 

 with pale colour, nearly erect, the outer line fine, interrupted ; 

 claviform broad, elongate, acute at extremity, fuscous defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, pale defined by black, tha 

 former round ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then slightly incurved, a black streak from it 

 to termen below vein 5, the veins of terminal area darker; sub- 

 terminal line pale, irregular, interrupted, without defining shades ; 

 a terminal sei'ies of small black lunules. Hind wing white, with a 

 fine terminal fuscous line ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas. Exji. 25-28 millim. This species is 

 unknown to rae. 



Genus STRETCHIA. 



Type. 



Stretchia, H. Eclw. Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. v, p. 26(5 (1874) plusiceforviis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with very long 

 hair in front ; frons smooth and with tuft of hair ; eyes moderate, rounded, 

 overhung by long cilia ; antennae of male bipectinate, with rather long branches 

 tapering to base and extremity ; head and thorax roughly clothed with long 

 hair and scales, or hair only ; the teguUv produced to a distinct ridge, the pro- 

 and metathorax with distinct crests; tibi^ fringed with long hair; abdoraini 

 with dorsal crest on basal segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved ; 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 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the stigmata defined by black. 



a. Fore wing with the medial area suffused with red-brown, muricina. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area not suffused with red- 



brown. 



«\ Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous plus i(sfor mis. 



/)\ Hind wing white irrorated with fuscous variabilis. 



B. Fore wing with the stigmata pale, not defined by black. 



a. Fore wing dark grey inferior. 



b. Fore wing silvery grey with a yellowish tinge and suffused 



with purple-brown sojcea. 



166(3. Stretchia muricina. (riate LXXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Acerra muricina, Grote, Bidl. Puff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 85 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 208. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with purplish-red, rufous, and grey 



