222 xoctuiu.e. 



side; mid and hind tibire slightly fringed with hair above; build slender; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termeu 

 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 

 middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform present. 



a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines distinct ... scctilis. 



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



obsolete ; perfundis. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and renil'orm absent nivalis. 



*3837. ? Leucocnemis sectilis. (Plate CXXYIII. fig. 11.) 



Oxycnemis scctilis. Smith, Trans, Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. SC>, pi. vi. f. 3 

 (1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 184. 



Head chocolate-brown ; thorax grey-white, the tegulse with 

 some brown scales ; abdomen white. Fore wing grey-white, the 

 markings defined by chocolate-brown scales ; antemedial line 

 single, excurved ; claviform large, white defined by brown ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish denned by brown, the former elliptical, the 

 latter broad; a faint dark medial shade; postmedial line single, 

 angled outwards beyond the reniform, then incurved to its lower 

 extremity ; subterminal line only denned by a dark shade on its 

 inner side, more distinct towards costa, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7; a terminal series of dark striae. Hind wing pure white. 



The fore tibia is said to have " a short inner as well as a longer 

 outer claw.*' 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas. E.^p. 22 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me ; figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Alus. 



3838. Leucocnemis perfundis. 



Oxycnemis perfundis, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 87, pi. vi. f. n" 

 (1894); D\ar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 184. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, rather more thickly on 



Fig. 47. — Leucocnemis perfundis, $ . \. 



terminal area ; no trace of subbasal or antemedial lines ; orbicular 

 and reniform very small and indistinct, white with brownish 

 centres, undefined, the former round ; traces of a postmedial line 



