216 XOCTUIDJE. 



A. Metiithoracic crest with metallic scales. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifurm cunjoinecl 



by a white streak in upper part of cell fusiviaada. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniforra not con- 



joined, 

 a'. Fore wing with the anteniedial line nearly straiglit. 

 a~. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform indis- 

 tinctly defined gustis. 



J2. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform strongly 



defined by black bahoqvavaria. 



b^. Fore wing with the anteniedial line sinuous advena. 



B. Metathoracie crest without metallic scales. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not con- 



fluent. 



aK Fore wing with the orbicular round subsimplex. 



b\ Fore wing with the orbicular narrow and elongate . acuna. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform confluent. 



«.'. Fore wing with the stigmata defined by black graxiillinea. 



b^. Fore wing with the stigmata not defined by black... adusta. 



3828. Oxycnemis fusimacula. (Plate CXXVIII. fijr. 2.) 



Oxycnemis fusimacula, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 50 (1902); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 184. 



5 . Heed and thorax black and white mixed ; metathoracie 

 crest small, black with a few metallic scales ; tarsi blackish 

 slightly ringed with white ; abdomen white faintly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing white irrorated with black, somewhat more 

 thickly on medial and terminal areas ; subbasal line black, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antomedial line black, oblique and 

 sinuous to submedian fold, where it is acutely angled outwards, 

 then incurved and bent outwards above inner margin ; claviforni 

 white slightly irrorated with fuscous and defined by black, acute at 

 extremity and extending almost to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former elongate 

 and rather pointed at extremities, the latter angled inwards below 

 subcostal nervure to the former, its upper extremity produced and 

 acute, with two oblique white streaks from it to costa defining the 

 black veins and crossing the black postmedial line which is bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly excurved at median 

 nervules and angled outwards on vein 1 ; an oblique dark shade 

 from costa near apex to outer side of reniform; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, whitish and diffused, somewhat excurved at middle ; 

 the terminal area with fine black streaks on the veins ; cilia 

 chequered blackish and white. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area tinged with brown from apex to submedian fold; a fine dark 

 terminal line except towards tornus ; cilia white slightly mixed 

 with brown ; the underside with the costal area and termen to 

 vein 3 irrorated with brown. 



Bub. U.S.A., Arizona, Yuma Co., 2 $ cotype. Exi^. 26 millim. 



