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NOCTtriDA". 



61. Oxylos citrinellus. 



Hdiothis citrinellus, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iii. p. 180 pi ii 

 f. 79 (1870) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 272. ' i • • 



e . Head and thorax very pale yellow ; abdomen white, the anal 

 tuft ochreous, Pore wing uniform very pale yellow. Hind win"- 

 white, with black discoidal lunule and terminal band leaving some 



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Pig. \^.— Oxylos cif I- indlus, c?. \. 



white on termen towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the 



costal area tinged with fuscous, the orbicular and reniform stigmata 



Exp. 30 millim. 



and subterminal and terminal bauds fuscous. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 e , Grote Coll., Colorado. 



Genus CHLOROCLEPTRIA, nov. 



Type, C. simplex. 



Proboscis fully dereloped ; palpi obliquely porrect, exteucling well beyond 

 frons, tlae 2nd joint fringed with hair below, the 3rd moderate; frons with 

 rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head 

 and thorax smoothly clothed with hair ; fore tibite with a long curved claw and 

 two spines on inner side and four claws on outer ; mid and hind tibite spined. 

 Fore wing with rein o from before angle of cell, 5 from above angle ; 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 middle of 

 discocellulars ; (i, 7 shortly stalked. 



62. Chlorocleptria simplex. 



Schinia simplex, Smith, Trans. Am. Eat. Soe. xviii. p. 129 (1891) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 276. 



d . Head and thorax yellowish white, tinged with pale green ; 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomeu pale yellow. Fore wing pale 

 yellow-green, the costal area wbitish green. Hind wing ochreous 



Fig. 20. — Chlorocleptria simplex, J. \. 



yellow, with some fuscous scales just below and in end of cell and on 

 terminal area especially towards apex. Underside yellow, the cilia 

 of fore wing pale green. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Colorado Springs, 1 J . Exji. 32 millim. 



