FOTA. — OXrCNEMIS. 



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Sect. IT. Hind wing of female with veins 'A, 1 from cell. 



3827. Fota armata. 



Fota armata, Grote, Cat. Ent. xiv. pp. 175, 181 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 183. 



$ . Head whitish mixed with brown ; neck with some ochreous 

 hair ; thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous and brown ; 

 pectus and legs white; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 purplish grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by two faint oblique stme from costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, minutely waved to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards, a diffused black streak in submedian fold from it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and renilbrm whitish defined by black and 



Fig. 44. — Fota armata, $. \. 



their centres slightly by fuscous, the former round, the latter 

 elliptical, a diffused black fascia before and between them ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, minutely 

 dentate to vein 2, then bent inwards, an indistinct whitish sub- 

 terminal line, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and 

 crossed by slight black streaks below veins 8, 7, 6 ; a terminal 

 series of slight blackish points. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with ochreous ; the underside white, the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with brown towards apex. 

 Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, Nogales, 1 $ . Eoop. d'l millim. 



Genus OXYCNEMIS. 



Type. 



Oxyonemis, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 182(1882) aduena. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, hardly reaching 

 the middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennas of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed 

 with rough hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax 

 with large crest formed of large curled scales; tibia; moderately fringed with 

 hair, the fore tibia very short, broadening into a large curved claw on inner 

 side at extremity; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly 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 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



