130 yoCTiiiD.i:. 



suffused and irrorated with reddisli brown, an indistinct diffused 

 obliquely curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba {Schaus), type f $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Eocp. 40 millim. 



*7911. NymMs dimera. (Plate CCXXIV. %. 27.) 



CeUptera dimera, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlii. p. 77 (1912). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white slightly irrorated 

 with black ; palpi thickly irrorated with brown ; sides of frons 

 and antennse brown ; legs thickly irrorated with brown, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal half grey- 

 white irrorated with black, the terminal half purplish brown ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a small black spot on eosta ; antemedial 

 line blackish with small black spot at costa, excm'ved below costa 

 and above inner margin ; the pale area defined by a black line 

 rather diffused on outer side, excurved at lower angle of cell and 

 oblique towards inner margin ; subterminal line grey, excurved 

 below vein 7, angled outwards at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of black points and a series of blackish strise at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish, the terminal half suffused with rufous ; cilia 

 white ; the underside whitish faintly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown except the cell and inner area, a black discoidal 

 point. 



Hah. Mexico, Tehuaean {MilJler), type f ? in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus CELIPTERA. 



Type. 



Celiptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 308 (1852) frusiulum. 



Litomiiiis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 84 (1804) frusiulum. 



Proboscis fully cleveloped ; palpi nptuvned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth with tuft of hair 

 above; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male with bristles and cilia; thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales mixed and with ridge-like dorsal crest; tibise 

 tvpically smoothly scaled, the fore tibire not spinecl, the hind tibite spined 

 between the mid and terminal spiu-s only ; abdomen with hairy crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat pi'oduced and acute ; the termen 

 evenly curved and 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 the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 0, 7 I'rom upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Femora and mid and hind tibias of male clothed with long hair ; hind 

 wing on underside with the basal and inner areas clothed with woolly 

 hair. 



A. Hind wing pale yellow, suffused with brown above in 



female remiqioide^. 



