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(Jenus CILLA. 

 Cilia, Grotc, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 99 (1880) 



Type. 

 distenia. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely uplurncd, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair above and 

 below towards extremity, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth with tuft of hair ; eyes 

 large, round; antennie ot male with cilia and bristles; thorax clothed with 

 scales and hair mixed and without crests ; build slender ; tibire moderately 

 fringed witli hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 

 what produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not orenulate; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 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 ceil ; fi obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4733. Cilia distema. 



Cilia diste-ma, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 99 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 K Am. p. 193. 



Head and thorax uliitc ; palpi tinged with rufous: frons rufous 

 at sides ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi tinged with rufous ; hind 

 legs and abdomen yellowish white. Pore wing white, the terminal 

 area tinged with yellowish; the veins faintly tinged with brown; 

 small black spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; an 



Fig. 134. — Cilia disiema, J. 



obliquely curved postraedial series of brown points on veins 7 to 1 ; 

 a terminal series of black points; cilia slightly mixed with brown. 

 Hind wing yellowish white. Underside of fore wing except inner 

 area and the hind wing suffused -ttilh ochreous yellow. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing without the postmedial series of points. 



Hub. U.S.A., Texas, 1 c? , 3 ? type. Exp. 24-28 millini. 



Genus DANTONA. 



Type. 



Dantona, Wlk. xix. 1021 (18r)9) sfillata. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely uplurned, the 2nd joint 

 reaching to about middle of irons and fringed with scales in front, produced to a 

 ]ioint at extremily with the rather long jiorrect 3rd joint resting on it; frons 

 smooth with shiii-p tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male with long 

 bristles and cilia; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and .'> 



