310 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



FAM. 



CINCIA WALKER. 



Female. Body short, stout, linear. Palpi straight, much shorter 

 than the head ; third joint linear, conical at the tip, much shorter 

 than the second. Antennae slender, serrated, pubescent, a little 

 more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; hind tibiae with four 

 moderately long spurs. Wings rather broad, not long. Fore 

 wings slightly convex in front, oblique along the apical border, 

 angular behind ; first, second and third inferior veins approximate 

 at the base ; fourth remote from the third. 



1. C. conspersa Walker, 53$. 



Whitish or hoary. Palpi blackish towards their tips. Thorax 

 with black dots. Anterior tibiae with black bands. Fore wings 

 sprinkled with black points and with full twenty-four black dots, 

 of which there is a row across each tip ; under side and hind wings 

 blackish. 



Jamaica. 



WALKER. 



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FAM. ? 



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ERITHALES POET. 



Tongue distinct. Palpi cylindrical, produced beyond the head, 

 with the third joint oriform. Antennae of the males strongly pec- 

 tinated. Wings exceeding the abdomen. 



1. E. guacolda Poey. Cent. Lep. Cuba. t 



Wings brown ; fore wings partly paler, with many black dots. 

 Abdomen yellow. Body and feet dotted with black. 



Cuba. 



POEY. 



