DASYPOtJDJilA. 



Geuus DASYPOUD^A. 



Basypoiidcea, Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p, 213 (1883). 



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Type. 



lucens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, and 

 fringed with hair below ; tVons with rounded prominence ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna; of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with thick hair, 

 the latter rather quadrately scaled and with slight metathoracic crests ; legs 

 with long hair, the tibia; spiued ; the fore tibiae rather short and broad, with 

 long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; abdomen in the type 

 species with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing short and broad, the 

 apex rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i 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 ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour crimson lucciis. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour crreeu meadi. 



Q'6. Dasypoudaea lucens. 



Hdiothis liccens, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 69 ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 286. 

 Tamila luxuriosa, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 175 (1882). 



2 . Head and thorax clothed with deep crimson and bluish- white 

 hair ; pectus with white and brownish hab' ; legs with white and 

 pinkish hair ; abdomen brown irrorated with yellowish-white, the 

 dorsal crest deep crimson and bluish white, the ventral surface 



Fig. 21. — Basypoiulaa lucens, S- \- 



white mixed with pink. Fore wing deep crimson suffused with 

 bluish white, the veins streaked with white ; a dentate subbasal 

 white line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 dentate ; an ill-deiiued crimson discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 liae minutely dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved ; an irregularly dentate subterminal whitish line 

 auglcd outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and inwards in discal and 

 submedian folds ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing yellowish, 

 with some black-brown suffusion at base conjoined to the large dis- 

 coidal lunule ; the terminal area black-brown, with irregular inner 

 edge and Avaved yellowish subterminal line towards tornus ; cilia 

 white at tips. Underside yellowish white, with patch below the 

 cell, orbicular, rcniform, and curved postmedial band blackish, some 

 crimson on termen towards apex : hind wing with crimson spot on 

 middle of costal area and postmedial and subterminal lines, becoming 

 a blackish baiul towards tornus, the large discoidal lunule black. 



Hab. U.S.A., Racine {Dr. IIoij), 1 5 , Xebraska, Montana, 

 Colorado, jN'ew Mexico, Exp. 32 millim. 



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