FALA. — LEUC0CNEMI8. 



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without crests. F.ir* wing with the ccate slightly excised beyond middle, the 

 apex rectangular, the termeu evenly curved and not crennlate ; 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 ,'->. 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of diBCOCellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3836. Fala ptychophora. 



Fala ptychnphora, Grote. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 426 : id. 111. 

 Essay, p. 64, pi. 3. f. 36; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 264. 



J. Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown, the head 

 and tegulae tinged with ochreous, the tegulae and thoracic crests 

 tipped with blackish: abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface 

 Avhitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with 

 ochreous, especially in discal and submedian folds and on terminal 

 area, and with some dark brown irroration especially from cell to 

 postmedial line, between veins 5 and 2; subbasal line represented 



Fig. 46. — Fala ptt/ch <phora. rf . 



bv a slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then dentate; orbicular and 

 renifonn white defined by blackish, the former round, the latter 

 narrow, oblique, slightly angled inwards on median nervure; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and the 

 area between it and subterminal line filled in by white lunules 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; subterminal line black defined on 

 outer side by an oblique white bar from costa, then dentate ; a 

 terminal series of black striag interrupted by white points at 

 extremity of veins and base of cilia which are blackish. Hind 

 wing ochreous irrorated with brown : traces of a discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line; cilia fuscous with a whitish line at 

 base; the underside ochreous sparsely irrorated with brown, a large 

 diffused dark discoidal lunule. 



Buh. U.S.A., California, 1 J type. E.cp. 34 milliin. 



Genus LEUCOCNEMIS, nov. 



Type. L. perfundis. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute; frons smooth: 

 antennte of male minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without crests; fore tibiae with curved claw at extremity on inner 



