ESCAEIA. ALEPTIXA. 



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indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; a dark terminal line ; cilia pale ; 

 the underside ochreous, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 

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Genus ALEPTINA. 



Type. 



Akptina. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 105 (1902) inca. 



Proboscis aborted and rather slight ; palpi obliquely porrect, slenderly 

 scaled and extending to extremity of the large flattened corneous plate at 

 middle of frons, a corneous plate below the frons excised in front ; eyes large, 

 I'ound; antennae of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia slightly fringed 

 with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 

 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to towards middle. 



3846. Aleptina inca. 



Alepiina inca, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 105 (1902); id. Cat. Lep. N. Am. 

 p. 107. 



Head and thorax black mixed with white, the frons above and 

 back of head mostly white ; pectus white ; tarsi black ringed wiih 

 white ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the ventral surface whitish 

 irrorated v.-ith brown. Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with black 

 and white, the basal area whitish except before costal half of 



Fig. 54. — Aleptma inca, J". |. 



antemedial line, which is double, black, angled outwards below costa 

 and cell; claviform slight, rarrow, elongate, defined below by 

 black and white ; orbicular with brown centre and white annulus 

 defined by black, large, round ; reniform grey with faint white 

 annulus, undefined, an oblique white shade from costa before sub- 

 terminal line to upper part of reniform, the veins on it with dark 

 streaks ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then double, oblique, sinuous ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, whitish, crossed by an oblique blackish shade from 

 apex to its inner side at vein 4, cxcurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved and the white more prominent; the termen 

 whitish Avith a series of black points; cilia with a blackish patch 



