ONCOCNEMIS. — ECIOCnELA. 



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brownish ; a fine broAvn terminal line ; the underside with 

 costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, Colorado, Arizona, 2 S type, Prescot* 

 (Kunze), 1 d • Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Genus ECTOCHELA. 

 Ectochela, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 279 (1902) 



Type. 



can in a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed 

 with hair in front, tiie 3rd rather porrect ; frona smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennjB of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; 

 fore tibia with curved claw on outer side at extremity ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen 

 obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 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 just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



2309. Ectochela canina. 



Acronijcta canina, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 10 (1874). 



S . White ; head, thorax, and abdomen slightly irrorated with 

 black ; palpi blackish at sides ; antennae and tarsi blackish except 

 at base. Fore wing sparsely irrorated with black and brown 

 scales ; the median uervure, veins 7, 6, 5, aud bases of veins 4, 3, 2 

 sometimes streaked with black; a more or less prominent black 

 streak below base of cell ; au antemedial black striga from costa 

 and short streak on vein 1 ; I'eniform represented hy a small black 

 annulus or lunule ; postmedial line reduced to a series of rather 



Fig. 48. — Ectochela canina, ^. \. 



streak-like points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; a faint oblique streak from termen below apex with faint 

 diffused subterminal line from it to inner margin ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area sometimes suffused with brown ; a terminal 

 series of black points except towards tornus ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with fuscous, a 

 minute discoidal point and traces of a postmedial series of points 

 on the veins. 



5 . Thorax darker ; abdomen suffused with brown ; fore wing 



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