DELTA. — ANDROPOLIA. 199 



terminal area streaked with black ; subbasal and antemedial 

 Hues absent ; a black streak in submedian fold to the claviform, 

 which is very narrow and elongate, white defined by black ; orbi- 

 cular defined by black, very narrow and oblique ; reniform a faint 

 slight oblique ochreous lunule defined by black on inner side, some 

 dark suffusion between them extending to costa ; postmedial line 

 slight, black, dentate, oblique to vein (J, below vein 4 oblique to 

 extremity of claviform, then erect ; an oblique diffused ochreous 

 shade from apex to reniform ; subterminal line absent ; the extre- 

 mity of vein 4 with yellow streak below and vein 3 defined on each 

 side by a dentate yellow mark ; a fine black terminal line. Hind 

 wing yellowish white tinged with rnfous, the veins of terminal half 

 streaked with brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas slightly irrorated with black, a slight discoidal spot and 

 indistinct curved minutely dentate postmedial line. 



Hab. Peru, Huancabamba, type f ^ in Coll. Druce. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Genus ANDROPOLIA. 



Type. 



Andropolia, Grote, Abb. Jfat. Ver. Bremen, xiv. p. S2 (1895), 



non descr theodori. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with bair, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons 

 smooth with ridges of hair above and between antenna* ; eyes large, round ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; tibia 1 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with rough 

 hair at base and more or less developed dorsal series of crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rectangular, the terrnen evenly curved, erenulate ; 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. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to near apex. 



A. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines distinct... diversilineata. 



B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines almost 



obsolete illepida: 



3808. Andropolia diversilineata. 



Hadena diversilineata, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iii. p. 119 



(1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 165. 

 Folia illepida, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 95 (1879), ^ (nee <3). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 blackish lateral bars ; tegulee with slight blackish medial line and 

 tips; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore' wing grey-white 

 thickly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a striga 

 from costa and a curved streak from cell to base at vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line defined by whitish on inner side, oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and more strongly above inner 



