312 XOCTUID-E. 



Genus CILLA. rr 



Type. 



Cilia, Grote, N. Am. Ent, i. p. 99 (1SS0) distant. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair above and 

 below towards extremity, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth with tuft of hair ; eyes 

 large, round; antenna; ot male with cilia and bristles; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed and without crests ; build slender ; tibia; moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 

 what produced and acute, 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 ; n obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4733. Cilia distema. 



Cilia distema, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 99 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 193. 



Head and thorax -white; palpi tinged with rufous; frons rnfous 

 at sides ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged with rufous ; hind 

 legs and abdomen yellowish white. Pore wing white, the terminal 

 area tinged with yellowish ; the veins faintly tinged with brown ; 

 small black spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; an 



Fig. 134. — Cilia distema, rf . \. 



obliquely curved postmedial series of brown points on veins 7 to 1 ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia slightly mixed with brown. 

 Hind wing yellowish white. Underside of fore wing except inner 

 area and the hind wing suffused with ochreous yellow. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the postmedial series of points. 



Bab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 rf , 3 $ type. Exp. 24-2S millim. 



Genus DANTONA. „ 



lype. 

 Dantoaa, "\Ylk. xix. 1021 (1859) sti'/lata. 



Proboscis aborted, minute : palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to about middle of frons and fringed with scales in front, produced to a 

 point at extremity with the rather long porrect 3rd joint resting on it; frons 

 smooth with sharp tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male with long 

 bristles and cilia: thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; 

 tibia? moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and ."> 



