LYTHRODES. 



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slightly fringed witJi hair, the fore tarsi very sliort with the ungues Inrge ; 

 abdomeu witlioiit crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the ternien evenly 

 curved and not erenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; t! from upper 

 angle; !) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 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. 



A. Fore wing without dark medial and postniedial shades. 



a. Fore wing with the pink streaks leaving broad yellowish 



fascia; on the veins radiata. 



h. Fore wing with the pink fascisK leaving narrow yellowish 



strejiks on the veins vennfa. 



B. Fore wing with dark medial and postniedial shades semUima. 



4582. Lythrodes radiata. 



Lytkrodcs radiatus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 206 (1003). 



Head and thorax creamy white ; antenna^ rufous ; pectus, h'-gs, 

 and abdomen white sufi'uscd with ochrcous brown. i'ore wing 

 creamy white : the basal area with bright pink streaks below costa, 

 in cell, above vein 1 and inner margin, and a streak below median 





Fig. so. -~L7/throdcs radiata, (S- \- 



nervure and vein 2 to termen ; two short streaks in end of cell and 

 streaks in the interspaces of terminal area ; cilia chequered creamy 

 white and rufous. Hind wing creamy white. 



ilab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Demiug, 1 J , 1 $ , Arizona, Yuma Co. 

 Exp. J 24, 2 -8 millim. 



*45S3. Lythrodes veuata. 



Lytln-odes venatus, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxix. p. 207 (1903). 



2 . Head and thorax very pale yellow ; abdomen almost white. 

 Fore wing carmine pink ; the costa and inner margin jiale yel- 

 lowish ; the veins with pale yellow streaks expanding somewhat 

 towards tennen ; a whitish ill-defined mark in cell representing the 

 orbicular ; cilia white intersected with black. Hind wing white 

 with a faint yellowish tinge. 



Hab. U.S.A.. New Mexico, Sta. Fe. Exp. 28 millim. This 

 Bpecics is unknown to me. 



