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black streaks interrupted by ochreous points beyond it in the 

 interspaces, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia ochreous inter- 

 sected with black. Hind wing olive-brown, the terminal area 

 slightly darker ; cilia pale ochreous, brown at base ; the underside 

 greyish irrorated with fascous, tlie terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Argentina, Mendoza^ Paenta del Inca, 2 c? > 1 $ type. 

 Ex^). 26 millim. 



Genus LEPIPOLYS. 

 Lepipolys, Gueu. J^oct. ii. p. 173 (1852) perscripia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair 

 in front; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennse of male minutely 

 seri'ate and fasciculate or ciliated ; head and thorax clothed entirely with 

 large scales, the teguhe witb slight dorsal ridge, the metathorax with small 

 crest ; fore tibite very short and broad with long curved claw on inner side, 

 short claw on outer and corneous plate between them ; abdoujen with some 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, 

 the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3, n from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 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 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



2250. Lepipolys behrensi. 



Oncocnemis behrensi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 65 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 160. 



J . Head and thorax pale grey-brown irrorated with some large 

 black scales ; tarsi banded with black : abrloraen brownish grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striiie from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, minutely waved ; 

 claviform faintly defined by a few black scales ; orbicular and 



Fig. 45. — Lepipolys behrensi, J . \. 



reniform defined by black and with some fuscous in centres, the 

 former round ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, cscurred to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white 



