CUTINA, 



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cilia white with a slight red-brown line at middle ; the underside 

 irrorated with white, with a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle and Southern States, 2 cf , 1 $ , Georgia, 

 2 S , Florida {Donhleday), 2 6 , Kansas (Snotv), 1 d , 1 ? , Texas, 

 2 c? . :Exp. 34-3G millim. 



Genus CUTINA. 

 Ctiiina, Wlk. xxxv. 1734 (1866) 



Type. 

 alhopuncicUa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing to vertex 

 of head and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely wi'th scales and without crests; build slender; tibire slightly fringed 

 with hair, the mid tibia; spined, the fore and hind tibiaj not spined ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex produced 

 and acute, the termen somewhat excised below apex and excurved at middle, 

 not creiuilate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell, 6 from upper angle, 

 y from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle : 5 fully developed 

 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



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'947. Cutina albopunctella. 



Cutina. albojnmctclla, Wlk. xxxv. 1735 (1866); Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. 



p. 194. 

 Erasiria sirignlafaria, Smith, J. N.y. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 173 (1900) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 209. 



6 . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some pale red- 

 brown ; abdomen gi-ey- white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 



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Fig. 47. — Cutina alhopuuctcUa, (^ . 



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grey-wnite, the interspaces sufEused and irrorated with red-bro\m, 

 leaving rather diffused white streaks on the veins ; antemedlal line 

 very indistinctly marked by black scales, dentate, connected by a 



