PROTAEACHE. — TJNCTJLA. 375 



metathorax with some olive and violet scales ; abdomen brown. 

 Fore wing dark olive-brown with some pale olive-yellow and violet 

 scales mixed, the terminal area white ; a white patch at base 

 emitting a streak below median nervure ; autemedial line almost 

 obsolete ; a large elliptical white patch in cell on medial area with 

 the reniform beyond it, narrow, indistinct with pale annulus ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal line absent ; 

 traces of a series of terminal dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with traces of discoidal point and curved postmedial line ; 

 cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous with discal yellowish 

 patch and the costa yellowish ; hind wing yellowish white with 

 dark postmedial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Sta. Catalina Mts. Exp. 28 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, the frontal structure examined 

 by H. (j. Dyar ; figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 W. Barnes. 



*5572. ? Protarache requies. (Plate CLX. fig. 4.) 



Centrartha requies, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xi. p. 21 (1909). 



Head dark brown, the palpi paler ; thorax and abdomen creamy 

 white. Fore wing purple-brown with a metallic gloss and irrorated 

 with pale purple scales, the basal and terminal areas creamy white, 

 the costal edge brown at base ; antemedial line slight, whitish 

 defined on inner side by brown, minutely waved ; orbicular absent ; 

 a creamy white spot produced at lower extremity in end of cell 

 before the faint reniform ; an incurved dark shade from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined on outer 

 side by whitish, exeurved below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; three 

 black points on termen just above middle. Hind wing white finely 

 irrorated with fuscous, the cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 silky blackish, the costa, apex, and discal spot pale ; hind wing 

 silky white. 



Hah. Mexico, Tehuacan (MuUer). Exp. 26 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus UNCULA. 



Type. 



Uncula, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 52 (1900) herbaria. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of irons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons 

 with corneous prominence with raised edges forming a transverse groove across 

 it, no corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without distinct crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and 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 veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well 

 below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



