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Genus AR^OPTEEA. 



Type. 



Arceopteron, Hinpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 136 (18'J3) pictulls. 



Exsonistii^, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 19U2 ( A)jr.), p, 36 micrceola. 



Thelxinod, Turner, P. Linn, Soc. N. S, W. xxvii. p. 131 (Aug. 



] 902) epiphracta. 



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

 of head and muderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennse with slight tufts of scales from the joints and tuft of scales 

 from basal joiiit; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibiis smoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen typically without 

 crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from just above angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10. 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly 

 stalked ; f) nearly fully developed from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Abdomen with slight dorsal crests towards extremity. 

 5005. Arjeoptera acidalica, n. sp. 



S . -Head, thorax, and abdopen Avhite, the last faintlj' tinged with 

 rufous and with the slight dorsal crests black towards extremity. 

 Pore wing white faintly tinged with rufous ; subbasal, antemedial, 



Fig. 9. — Araopt era acidalica, (^ . f. 



and medial black points on costa ; a black discoidal striga and faint 

 oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, white, defined on inner side by slight 

 rufous suffusion and by some black at inner margin, strongly bent 

 outwards below cost a, then oblique; some white points with pale 

 rufous between them beyond it on costa ; a faint rufous subtermmal 

 phade ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with rufous ; a black discoidal point ; a faint oblique sinuous 

 rufous medial line ; postmedial line white, defined on inner side by 

 a rufous shade and some black scales, oblique; a faint rufous 

 subterminal shade; a series of rufous and black terminal points 

 defined on inner side by white ; the underside white with minute 

 black discoidal point and diffused brownish postmedial line. 



Hah. Jamaica, Moneague ( IValsinr/ham), 1 6 type. Ea'p. 

 10 millim. 



