214 Nocrrnif.. 



Genus FOTA. 



Typ«. 

 Fota, C4rote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 174 (1882) armata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head 

 and fringed with long scales below, the 3rd joint moderate; frons with large 

 rounded corneous prominence with raised edges and long pointed central 

 process hidden in long hair, a large corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests ; tibia; smoothly scaled, 

 the fore tibia with small curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; 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 typically from cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



3826. Fota minor ata. 



Fota minorata, Grote. Can. Ent. xiv. p. 181 (1882) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 183. 

 Iscadui aperta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 474 (part.), nee Wlk. 



Head and tegulaj ochrcous white, palpi, sides of frons and 

 antennae mixed with brown ; thorax dark grey mixed with fuscous 

 and whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ocbreous white. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous especially 

 on costal area ; an indistinct curved subbasal line with paler grey 

 before it and beyond it at costa, an elongate pale grey mark defined 



Fig. 43.— Fota minorata, 2- {• 



by blackish beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved to submedian fold, 

 then incurved ; orbicular and reniforni pale grey defined by black, 

 their centres tinged with brown, the former round, the latter 

 elliptical and with curved dark line in centre ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved and below vein 4 strongly bent inwards ; the interspaces of 

 terminal area with slight black streaks. Hind wing yellowish 

 white. 



J fab. U.S.A., Arizona (Bulst), 1 $; Mexico, Sonora (Morrison), 

 1 6 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28-30 millim. 



