L> I 4 NOCTFID^, 



edp;c ; a fine brown terminal line: cilia brown with dark line 

 through tlieru. Jlind wing pale ochreous suffused with brown ; 

 a. tine brown terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Underside 

 ochreous wholly suffused with red-brown. 



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 yC milliin. 



Genus HOPLOLYTHRA, nov. 



Typo, //. dls^isfriqa. 



IVoboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second joint 

 reaching about to middle of f'rons and moderately fringed with scales, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small 

 central process, a corneous plate below it excised in front ; eves large, round; 

 antenujE of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia somewhat 

 curled up at exTcnnties ; fore tibiiu with slender sj^ine at extremity on inner 

 side; mid and hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen witliout 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; G from upjier angle; 

 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 below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards middle 



4581, Hoplolythra discistriga. 



Lythrodes discistriga, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 207 (1903). 



6 . Head and thorax yellow mixed with rufous ; antennae 

 rufous; abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral surface creamy white. 

 Eore wing creamy white with fine rufous streaks on the veins and 



Fig. 79. — Hoplolythra discistriga, S . \. 



in submedlan interspace, the streaks expanding between end of cell 

 and termen ; cilia chequered creamy white and rufous. Hind wing 

 golden yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Walters Sta., Arizona, lledington, 1 J. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus LYTHRODES. ^ 



Type. 



Lythrodes, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 200 (1903) radiafa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pnlpi obliquely porrect, short and slender, the 

 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons with 

 corneous pro.ninence with raised edge and flattened vortical ))late at middle, 

 a curved corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male laminate 

 and almost simple; thorax clothed vrilh hair oidy and without crests; tibiie 



