CUTIKA, 



157 



cilia white with a slight red-brown line at middle ; the underside 

 irrorated with white, with a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle and Southern States, 2 c? , 1 5 , Georgia, 

 2 6 , Florida {Douhleday), 2 S , Kansas (Snow), 1 c5' , 1 ? , Texas, 

 2 (^ . JSa-p. 34-36 millim. 



Genus CUTINA. 

 Cuiina, Wlk. xxxv. 1734 (1866) 



Type. 

 albopunciella. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaeliing to vertex 

 of head and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frcns 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas oi' male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests; build slender; tibiae slightly fringed 

 with hair, the mid tibiae spined, the fore and hind tibi^ not spined ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and without crests. Pore wing narrow, the apex produced 

 and acute, the termen somewhat excised below apex and excurved at middle, 

 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 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle : 5 fully developed 

 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



7947. Cutina albopunctella. 



Cutina alhopmictella, Wlk. xxxv. 1735 (1866) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 194. 

 Erasiria sir iqulal aria, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. viii. p. 173 (1900) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep.'N. Am. p. 209. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some pale red- 

 brown ; abdomen grey-white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 



Fig. 47. — Cuiina albopunctella, J. 



grey-wmte, the interspaces suffused and irrorated with red-brown, 

 leaving rather diffused white streaks on the veins ; antemedial line 

 very indistinctly marked by black scales, dentate, connected by a 



