ABKOSTOLA. 583 



divided creat ; tibias fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of crests, the crests on 1st and 3rd S3ginentg larger, lateral fringes of 

 hair except on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and slightly 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 ; slight tufts of raised scales in and below end of cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell about half 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. 



A.. Fore wing with the antemedial line obliquely curved to 

 near lower angle of cell, then retracted and hooked 

 below tha cell fornwsa. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line very strongly 



exc u rved avails. 



b. Fore wing with tlie antemedial line moderately ex- 



curved. 

 a}. Fore wing with the spot bdlow the orbicul.ir 



rounded urciitis. 



h^. Fore wing with tiie spot below the orbicular more 



quadrate trifartita. 



0. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved in the cell. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line closely approxi- 



mated to the upper extremity of reniform asclepiadis. 



b. Fore wing with the postmediiil line produced to well 



beyond upper extremity of reniform triplasia. 



D. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved in the cell 

 and at vein 1 . 



a. Fore wing without oblique whitish shade from apex. 

 a}. Fore Aving with the postmedial line excurved above 



inner margin aiiophioides. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line not excurved 

 above inner margin. 

 a^. Fore wing not mostly suffused with fuscous, the 



spot below the orbicular round trioins. 



b^. Fore wing almost entirely suffused with fuscous, 



the spot below the orbicular oblique elliptical ... abrostollna. 



b. Fore wing with oblique whitish sliade from apex. 



«'. Fore wing with the stigmata small, entirely defined 



by black canariensis. 



b^. Fore wing witli the stigmata large, defined by black 



points brevixmmis. 



*8433. Abrostola formosa. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 25.) 



Lepihia formosa, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 323(1865) ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.r. Ent. Soc. x. pL ix, f. 13 ; Smith, Gat. Noct. N. Am. p. 249, 



5 . Head white ; palpi irrorated with hrown ; irons with lateral 

 brown bars ; antennae and vertex of head red-brown ; thorax red- 

 brown with some white at sides, the tegulse with black medial line ; 

 pectus and legs white tinged with red-brown ; abdomen whitish 

 dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the 

 basal area, the cell to near extremity, and a patch below its ex- 

 tremity violaceous white faintly tinged with red-brown; some 

 slight black streaks below costa ; an oblique antemedial black 

 striga from costa; the Avhitish area defined by the diffused red- 

 brown antemedial line and raised dark scales, slightly angled 



