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*4098. Petilampa camina. (Plate CXXXIIT. fig-. 4.) 



Flatyperigea camina, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. OU, pi. vi. f. 9 

 (1894) ; Dyai", Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 109. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with grey ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen dark brown. Fore wing 

 dark brown slightly irrorated with grey; subbasal line represented 

 by a faint dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold ; orbicular represented by a 

 short black streak ; reniform a narrow blackish kinule, strongly 

 produced at upper extremity ; postmedial line indistinct, diffused, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, somewhat 

 dentate and with slight whitish marks beyond it in the inter- 

 spaces ; subterminal line absent ; a terminal series of faint dark 

 lunules ; cilia with slight pale lines at base and middle. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, tinged with brown ; a faint discoidal lunuie ; 

 a fine brown terminal line and whitish line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a brownish discoidal lunuie. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Bruce), type f S in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus AMEFRONTIA. 



Type. 

 Amcfrontia, Hinpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. 2. p. 87 (1899) purpurea. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturnrd, tbe 2nd joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head and slender, the 3rd small ; Irons with large shovel- 

 shaped corneous process at middle and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male bipectinate to apex with rather long branches ; thorax 

 smootlily clothed with scales, the pro- and metathor.ix with slight spreading 

 crests; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing witli the 

 apex rounded, tlie ternien evenly curved and hardly creiiulate; veins 3 and 

 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from up]ier angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witii 

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

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the ce 1 to near middle. 



Tliis genus is called Palafrontia in Vol. vii. p. <i and in the Phylogeny of tlie 

 genera. 



4099. Amefrontia purpurea. 



Amefronfia purpiirea, Hmpsn. Bnll. Liverp. Mus. ii. 2. p. 37 (1899^; id. 

 Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 327, pi. xx. f. 11. 



J . Head and thorax deep fiery red ; antennae dark brown ; legs 

 brownish, the tarsi brown with pale inngs ; abdomen ochreous 

 suffused with red-brown. Fore wing fiery red, the costal ai'ea, cell 

 and terminal area except at tornus sutt'used with deep red-brown, 

 the veins streaked with brown ; traces of a straight erect ante- 

 medial line from cell to inner margin; orbicular and reniform very 

 small with brown centres and ill-defined ochreous annuli, the former 

 round, the latter fig ure-of-8-sh aped ; traces of a waved pos^-t- 

 medial line excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some minute yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa ; a series of minute yellow points juut 



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