FALA. — LT5UC0CNEMIS. 221 



•vritliont crests. F.irp wing with the costa slightly exi-isod beyond middla, tlie 

 a]jex rectangular, tlie terineu evenly curved arid not crenulate ; veins 8 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind veing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8 auastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3836. Pala ptychophora. 



Fala ptychnphora, Grrote, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 426 ; id. 111. 

 E.ssay, p. 64, pi. 3. f. 36 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 264. 



(J . Head and thorax white mixed with black-hrown, the head 

 and teguise tinged with ochreous, the tegulae and thoracic crests 

 tipped with blackish ; abdomen pale ochreous, the ventral surface 

 ■whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with 

 ochreous, especially in discal and submedian folds and on terminal 

 area, and with some dark brown irroration especially from cell to 

 postmedial line, between veins 5 and 2 ; subbasal line represented 



Fig. 46. — Fala jitychvphora, J. }. 



by a slight dark striga from costa; antemedial line blackish, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then dentate ; orbicular and 

 reiiiform white defined by blackish, the former round, the latter 

 narrow, oblique, slightly angled inwards on median nervure; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa and the 

 area between it and subterminal line filled in by white lunules 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; subterminal line black defined on 

 outer side by an oblique white bar from costa, then dentate ; a 

 terminal series of black strise interrupted by white points at 

 extremity of veins and base of cilia which are blackish. Hind 

 wing ochreous irrorated with brown ; traces of a discoidal lunula 

 and curved postmedial line; cilia fuscous with a whitish line at 

 base ; the underside ochreous sparsely irrorated with brown, a large 

 diffui*ed dark discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 ci" type. Exjj. 34 millim. 



Genus LEUCOCNEMIS, nov. 



Type, L. perfundis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute ; tYons smooth ; 

 antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without crests ; fore tibisE with cuiTed claw at extremity on inner 



