﻿OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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PALEACRITA YERNATA. ANISOPTERYX POMETAKIA. 



Imago. 



Male— PaZjOi very short, but distinctly Male— Pn^/ji rudimentary with joints 



2-jointed. indistintruishable. 



[Fig. 7.] [Fig. 8. 



Antennae with not quite 40 joints, the 

 longest more than twice as long as wide, 

 «ach with two pairs of hair fasciclt s, 

 springing from very slight, lateral eleva- 

 tions, the longpst hair about thrice the 

 diameter of joint. Looking from above, 

 with ordinary lens-power, these hairs give 

 the appearance of fine, ciliate pectinations. 

 (Fig. 7, c.) 



Abdomen with the first seven joints 

 bearing each two transverse dorsal rows 

 of stiff, reddish spines, pointing posteri- 

 ori! y. 



[Fig !).] 





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Wings delicate, silky, semi-transparent, 

 transversely striate, the scales short and 

 very loosely attached. 



Fro7it-wings with costal and sub-costal 

 veins well united, with the discal cross- 

 vein partially open, and but two short cos- 

 tal branches, the superior veins straight.* 

 <Fig.7, «.) 



Upper surface brownish-graj'. 



Antenna; with over 50 joints, the longest 

 not twice as long as wide, each wi'h o?ze 

 pair of fascicles of slightly curleil hairs, 

 the longest about thrice as long as the di- 

 ameter of the joint, and all springing 

 from a prominent, dark hump which occu- 

 pies the basal half of the joint beneath, 

 and gives a somewhat serrate appear- 

 ance frora the side. The same appear- 

 ance of ciliate pectinations looking from 

 above. (Fig. 8, c, d.) 



Abdomen without spines and often with 

 a moderate anal brush. 



[Fis;-. 10.] 



Wbiigs less transDaienr, more glossy, 

 not striate, the scales on an average 

 longer and more firmly attached. 



Front-wings with costal and sub-costal 

 less clo.eely united, with the discal cross- 

 vein well clo.sed, and with three costal 

 branches. All the veins 7-11 are more 

 distinctly separated and the superiors 

 more curved, veins 9 and 10 forniing an 

 open areolet near the disc: the apex more 

 produced. (Fig. 8, a.) 



Upper surface also brownish-gray, but 

 somewhat darker, with a purplish rt flec- 

 tion. 



« A mici-oscopic examination shows the venation in vernata to be on the same plan as that in pome- 

 taria. The dillerence is that in vernata the costal vein is feeble anil generally obsolete at its termination, 

 and all the veins 7-12 are more closely United with the costal than in pometaria. 



