POLENTA. 



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^Genus POLENTA, 



Tvpo. 



Polenta, Moi-r. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 124 (1875) tcpperi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely uptiirne:!, the 2nd joint reachin"; 

 about to middle ot frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 short; frons with heart-shaped corneous prominence with raised edges, its 

 lower edge produced to a point ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male somewhat 

 laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the 

 prothorax wilhout crest, the metathoras with spreading crest, the patagia 

 somewhat curled upwards at extremities; tibite moderately fringed with hair, 

 the fore tibire with small spine on outer side at extremities ; abdomen without 

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

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

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hmd 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of 

 disfocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4G30. Polenta tepperi. 



ScUnia tepperi, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. ^^S; Smith, Cat. 



N.-ct. N. Am. p. 21)3. 

 Tlaglomimicus rickii, Grote, Can. Ent. xviii. p. 09 (18S6). 



Head white, the palpi, frons, and antennse tinged with olive- 

 brown ; thorax -white mixed with olive-brown : fore lesjs suffused 

 with brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing white sufl^used with olive-brown, the inner margin with slight 

 whitish streak ; flntemedial line w^hite, straight, oblique -with some 

 deeper olive-brown suffusion before it on costa; a slight white 

 di.scoidal line; postmedial line white, oblique from costa to vein 6 

 where it is acutely angled, then very oblique to middle of inner 



Pig. 101. — Folcnta tepperi, J. \. 



margin, a triangular olive-brown patch beyond it on costa bounded 

 on outer side by the oblique white subterminal line, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7; cilia white, tinged with brown at apex. Hind win"- 

 ■whitish sufl'used with brown, paler at base ; cilia white. Under- 

 side of fore wing suffused -with brown leaving the costa whitish; 

 hind wing white tinged with brown, traces of a diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. U S.A., Texas, 1 2 type Wc/ni, Colorado. Arizona (Po/i»f/), 

 3 c? , Prescott {Kunze), 1 c? , 2 $ , Huachuca Mts., 1 $ , Baboquavaria 

 Mts., 1 c' . 1 -^ . ICvi^ 2 I ;;o millim. 



* The Genera I'oloita and Plagiomimiais would be better placed following 

 Stiha'Uum. 



