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and abdomen tinged with brown. Eore wing pure white, the costal 

 edge black towards base. Hind wing white suffused with fuscous ; 

 the cilia pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous ; 

 hind wing white, with curved postmedial line, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, Argus Mts., 1 cJ, X. Mexico, Hot Springs, 

 7000 ft., Arizona. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus MELICLEPTRIA. 



Type. 



MeUcleptna,'ii.\\hi\. Verz. p. 262 (1827) scutosa. 



Canthylidla, Batl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p . 406 ■pallida. 



Proboscis fully cleveloped ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons, and 

 slightly fringed with bair below; frons with rounded prominence with corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 smoothly clothed with hair and scales ; fore tibice short and broad, with long 

 curved claw and two spines on inner side, and shorter claw or spine on outer ; 

 mid and hind tibitii spined. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 1) from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Cantliylidia). Fore wing of male with glandular swelling oncosta just 

 beyond middle and elongate depressed brands below costa a.ad in cell. 



A. Fore wing with pi'ominent claviform, orbicular, and reniform 



stigmata cistella. 



B. Fore wing without stigmata. 



a. Fore wing with distinct white fascia in discal fold. 



aK Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish pink eodora. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour not pink. 



«■-. Fore wing with subterioinal series of white spots ... cladota. 

 Ir'. Fore wing without subterminal series of white spots. 

 a?. Fore wing with white fascia in submedian inter- 

 space , onesoleuca. 



Ir. Fore wing without white fascia in submedian 

 interspace. 

 a^. Fore wing with more or less prominent dark 



streaks on the veins netmas. 



b*. Fore wing without dark streaks on the veins. 

 ft5. Fore wing dark brown irrorated with fuscous ; 



hind wing brown cramboides.. 



If . Fore wing pale yellow-brown ; hind wing 



white osmida. 



b. Fore wing with indistinct or without fascia in discal fold. 

 a}. Fore wing without postmedial series of dark points on 



the veins. 

 a-. Fore wing witn the costal and inner areas suffused 



with red ionola. 



b'^. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not 

 suffused with red. 

 a^. Hind wing with the ground-colour white. 



«*. Fore wing white, more or less irrorated with 



fuscous pallida. 



bK Fore wing pale silkj^ ochreous, the inner area 



suffused with brown canusina. 



P. Hind wing brown onorihonda. 



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