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AGAKISTID^. 



base of costa, patches round the leaden spots, a double minutely 

 waved postmedial line strongly dentate inwards on vein 2 ; pairs of 

 small orange wedge-shaped subterminal spots on each side of the 

 veins. Hind wing with white spots in middle and below end of 



Fig. 278.- 



-Syfania hieti, (^ . 



cell, and a bar just beyond discocellulars ; cilia white at tips ; 

 underside with broad orange fascia on costa from near base to 

 beyond middle ; the interspaces of terminal area suffused with 

 yellow, narrowing to a point at vein 1. 



Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 5 c? , 1 $ , Che-tou, 1 $ , 

 How-kou, 3 5 . Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus PSEUDALYPIA. 



Psetidalypia, H. Edw. P. Cal. Acad. v. p. Ill (1874) 



Type. 



crotchi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; bead small, clothed with long hair ; palpi short, 

 porrect, clothed with long hair ; irons with long triangular corneous process 

 notched at sides ; antennae almost simple, hardly dilated towards extremity ; 

 eyes small ; thorax hairy ; tibiae smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole, 7 from end of areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing witli vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



*178. Pseudalypia crotchi. 



Fseudali/pia crotchii, U. Edw. P. Cal. Acad. v. p. 111(1874); Stretch, 



Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 214, pi. 9. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 33. 

 Pseudal//pia crotchii, var. atrata, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 121 (1884). 



2 . Black with a slight brown tinge ; palpi at base, the tegulse, 

 and ajial tuft golden orange. Fore wing with the costa creamy 

 white from base to the narrow postmedial band, which tapers to a 

 point above inner margin ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with 

 the cilia creamy white. 



Ab. 1. atrata. Fore wing with the postmedial band absent. 



Hab. U.S.A., S. California. Kvp. 26 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



