CINCIA, — SICCIA. 389 



Hah. Jamaica (Sturridge, Bowry), 1 (j" , 1 $ type. Ex£., S 26, 

 $ 28 millim. Type f mixta in Coll. Staudinger. 



829. Cincia conspersa. 



Cincia conspersa, Wlk. ii. 538 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 366. 

 Autoceras sordida,, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. p. 32, f.9 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 368. 



Head and thorax grey-white ; palpi blackish ; vertex of head, 

 patagia, and metathorax with black points ; fore legs spotted with 

 black ; abdomen fuscous above, whitish below. Pore wing grey- 

 white, irrorated with black scales and often tinged with fuscous ; 

 small black spots at base of costa and below the cell ; an oblique 



subbasal series of three spots ; 

 an antemedial series of four 

 spots bent inwards to costa 

 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; medial spots on costa 

 and below the cell ; a post- 

 medial series of four spots bent 

 outwards below the cell ; two 

 Fig. m%— Cincia conspersa, S- f- discoidal spots, with a spot on 



costa above them ; subterminal 

 spots below costa and above veins 3 and 4 ; a terminal series. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the cilia pj.le. Underside fuscous, fore wing with the 

 costa whitish beyond middle, with three black points on it. 



Hind wing with vein 3 shortly stalked with 4 ; 5 sometimes 

 from near termen. 



Hah. Ja-jiaica {;Gosse), 3 $ , type, Monteagle, 1200 ft. {Gockerell), 

 1 (S • Exp. 20 millim. Type f sordida in Coll. Staudinger. 



Genus SICCIA. ^^^^_ 



Siccia, Wlk. ii. 539 (1854) caffra. 



Mmene, Wlk. ii. 541 (1854) taprobcmis. 



Melania, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent Mod. vii. p. 145 (1863) caffra. 



Pa wassa, Wlk. xxxii. 607(1865) taprobams. 



Autoceras, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 2 (1874), non descr taprobams. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reacbing vertex of head ; 

 tibige with the spurs long. Fore wing rather narrow; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 Irom angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from 

 towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle 

 of cell. 



Sect. I. (Siccia). Antenna of male bipectinate, with rather long branches. 



A. Forewing with the postmedial line very strongly angled 



inwards in submeclian fold caffra. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly angled 



inwards in submedian fold punctipe7inis ( $ ). 



