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slightly fringed with hair, the fore tarsi very short with the ungues large ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; 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 just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing without dark medial and postmedial shades. 



a. Fore wing with the pink streaks leaving broad yellowish 



fascia? on the veins radiata. 



b. Fore wing with the pink fascia? leaving narrow yellowish 



streaks on the veins venata. 



B. Fore wing with dark medial and postmedial shades semiluna. 



4582. Lythrodes radiata. 



Lythrodes radiatus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 206 (1903). 



Head and thorax creamy white ; antennae rufous ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen white suffused with ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 creamy white : the basal area with bright pink streaks below costa, 

 in cell, above vein 1 and inuer margin, and a streak below median 



Fig. 80. — Lythrodes radiata, $ . \. 



nervure and vein 2 to termen ; two short streaks in end of cell and 

 streaks in the interspaces of terminal area ; cilia chequered creamy 

 white and rufous. Hind wing creamy white. 



Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Deming, 1 c? , 1 § , Arizona, Yuma Co. 

 Exp. 3 24, 2 2$ millim. 



*45S3. Lythrodes venata. 



Lythrodes venatus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 207 (1903). 



5 . Head and thorax very pale yellow ; abdomen almost white. 

 Fore wing carmine pink ; the costa and inner margin pale yel- 

 lowish ; the veins with pale yellow streaks expanding somewhat 

 towards termen ; a whitish ill-defined mark in cell representing the 

 orbicular ; cilia white intersected with black. Hind wing white 

 with a faint yellowish tinge. 



Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Sta. Fe. Exp. 2S millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



