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AMPLICINCIA PALLIDA (Butler) 



Cincia pallida Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, p. 484. — Hampson, Cata- 

 logue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 388, 

 1900. — Draudt, in Seitz, Gross-schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 6, p, 252, 

 1918. — Strand, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pars 26, p. 733, 1922. 



Aemene pallida (Butler), Kirby, A synomymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heter- 

 ocera, p. 366, 1892. 



Male. — Palpus light gray at apex and below, dark brown above. 

 Antenna and head white or light gray, sometimes tinged with yellow 

 and with a dark-brown or black spot in middle of vertex. Mesoscutum 

 gray, patagium and tegula dark gray sprinkled with a few black scales, 

 sometimes lighter and often tinged with pale yellow. Tegula with a 

 black spot at base along inner side, this spot usually covered by the 

 patagium. Mesoscutellum gray, suffused with pale yellow, a pair 

 of small black spots along posterior margin. Foreleg along inner side 

 of femur and tibia fuscous, a black spot in middle of tibia and with 

 apex of first tarsal segment and all of second through fifth tarsal seg- 

 ments dark brown or black. Midtibia with a large black spot in 

 middle. Hind legs and remainder of forelegs and midlegs light gray. 

 Abdomen ochraceous-white to light gray below, darker above. Fore- 

 wing above grayish white streaked with pale-yellowish suffusion and 

 irrorated with black scales and with numerous black spots arranged 

 as follows: A small basal spot in middle of wing; a similar spot on base 

 of costa; an oblique series of three spots, subbasal in position; an 

 antemedial series of four spots bent inward to costa and outward 

 above inner margin; medial spots on costa and between cell and base 

 of vein 2 ; a spot at upper angle and one at lower angle of cell and one 

 on costa above these and below middle of vein 2; several subapical 

 spots at costa and below veins 6 and 5; five or six marginal spots 

 between veins at outer margin. Fringe grayish white or sometimes 

 paler. Forewing below, hind wing above and below, fuscous except 

 for pale areas along inner margin of underside of forewing. Special- 

 ized scales in a patch above cell on upperside of hind wing brown. 



Length of forewing, 9-11.5 mm. 



Male genitalia (pi. 6, fig. 2) with characters as given in the key. 



Female. — Habitus like that of male, usually with more yellow 

 suffusion on forewing above and without patch of speciahzed scales 

 on hind wing above. 



Length of forewing, 10-14 mm. 



Female genitalia (pi. 7, fig. 7) with characters as given in the key. 



Type locality. — Jamaica (at or near Kingston). 



Additional type data. — Holotype of pallida is a female (Jamaica; 

 9 genitalia preparation, British Museum No. 1947-266). 



Location of type. — In British Museum. 



Distribution. — Jamaica: St. Thomas Parish, Bath (Mar. Apr., July), 

 Morant Bay (July); St. Andrew Parish, Kingston, Newcastle; St. 



