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and abdomen tinjjed with brown. Fore wing pure white, the costal 

 edge black towards base. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous : 

 the cilia pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous ; 

 hind wing white, with curved postmedial line, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, Argus Mts,, 1 S ,^. Mexico, Hot Springs, 

 7000 ft., Arizona. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus MELICLEPTRIA. 



Type. 



McUclcpiria, Itubii. Verz. p. 262 (1827) scutom. 



CuntlnjMiu, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 406 fallida. 



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

 slightly fringed with hair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennre of male ciliated : head and thorax 

 smoothly clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibite short and broad, with long 

 curved claw and two spines on inner side, and shorter claw or spine on outer ; 

 mid and hind tibiif spined. Fore wing with the apex somewliat produced ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 'J from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 co form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, -4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discooellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Cditthiilidid). Fore wing of male with glandular swelling on costa just 

 beyond middle and elongate depressed brands below costa and in cell. 



A. Fore wing with prominent claviform,orbicular,and reniforni 



stigmata cistcU((. 



B. Fore wing without stigmata. 



a. Fore wing with distinct white fascia in discal fold. 



ft'. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish pink eodora. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour not pink. 



a'-. Fore wing with subtermiual series of white spots ... ciadota. 

 b'-. Fore wing without subterminal series of white spots. 

 «^ Fore wing with white fascia in submedian inter- 

 space mcsvlpucu. 



/;\ Fore wing without white fascia in submedian 

 interspace. 

 «'. Fore wing with more or less prominent dark 



streaks on the veins iiruriaK. 



JiK Fore wing without dark streaks on the vein.s. 

 ('o. Fore wing dark brown ii'rorated with fuscous ; 



hind wing brown cramhoides. 



/)'. Fore wing pale yellow-brown ; hind wing 



white os}iiida. 



b. Fore w ing witii indistinct or without fascia in discal fold. 

 a^. Fore wing without postmedial series of dark points (m 



the veins. 

 c(?. Fore wing witn the costal and inner areas suffused 



w ith rt'd ionola. 



Ir. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not 

 suifii-ed with nd. 

 a^. Hind wing with the grouud-cohjur white. 



«*. Fore wing white, more or less irrorated with 



fuscous imllidu. 



h\ Fore wiug pale silky oc'lireou>, the imiei' area 



suffused with brown canitsina. 



6''. Hind wing brown luoribmuln. 



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