CINCIA. — SICCIA. 3g9 



Hah. Jamaica {Starridge, Bown/), 1 J , 1 $ type. Exv^., (^ 26 

 2 26 miUim. Type f mivta in Coll. Staudiuger. 



829. Cincia conspei'sa. 



Cincia co7ispersa, Wlk. ii. 538 (1854) ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. p. 366. 

 Autoceras sordida,, Musclil. Abb. Senck. Ges. p. 32, f.9 (1S86) ■ Kirby Cat 

 Het. p. 368. ' ^ ' ' • 



Head and thorax grey-white ; palpi blackish ; vertex of head, 

 patagia, and metathorax with black points ; fore legs spotted with 

 black ; abdomen fuscous above, whitish below. Fore wing grey- 

 white, irrorated with black scales and often tinged with fuscous ; 

 small black spots at base of costa and below the cell ; an oblique 



subbasal series of three spots ; 

 an antemedial series of four 

 spots bent inwards to costa 

 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; medial spots on costa 

 and below the cell ; a post- 

 medial series of four spots bent 

 outwards below the cell ; two 

 Fig. ^02.— Cincia conspersa, (^ . i. discoidal spots, with a spot on 



costa above them ; subterminal 

 spots below costa and above veins 3 and 4 ; a terminal series. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the cilia pJe. Underside fuscous, fore wing Avith the 

 costa whitish beyond middle, with three black points on it. 



Hind wing with vein 3 shortly stalked with 4 ; 5 sometimes 

 from near termen. 



Ilab. Jamaica (<?05S(?), 3 5 , type, Moateagle, 1200 ft. (CocJcereU), 

 1 cJ . Ed-p. 20 millim. Type f sordida in Coll. Staudinger. 



Genus SICCIA. 



Tvpe. 



Siccia, Wlk. ii. 539 (1854) cafra. 



jEmetie, MV\k. ii. 541 (1854) tajjroba7iis. 



Melanin, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent Mon. vii. p. 145 (1863) caffra. 



PawrtSAa, Wlk. xsxii. 607(1865) taprobams. 



Autoceras, Peld. Reis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non descr tajprobanis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 tibite with the spurs long. Fore wing rather narrow ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from 

 towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle 

 of cell. 



Sect. I. (Siccia). Antenn£E of male bipectinate, with rather long branches. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line very strongly angled 



inwards in submedian fold caffra. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line sliglitly angled 



inwards in submedian fold punctipennis ( 5 ). 



