PALPIDIA. LERINA. 513 



Genus PALPIDIA. 



Type. 

 Palpidia, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 33 (1898) fallidior. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, slender, and reaching well above vertex of head ; 

 antennsB of female simple ; tibise with the spurs long. Fore wing narrow and 

 elongate ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 from 

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

 beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from angle ; 

 8 from before middle of cell. 



*1103. Palpidia pallidior. (Plate XXXIII. tig. 7.) 

 Palpidia pallidior, Dyar, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 34 (1898). 



5 . Oclireous white. Fore wing with the interspaces thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous scales. Hind wing and abdomen white. 



Hab. U.S.A., Florida, Cocoanut Grove {E. A. Swarz), 1 § type 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exj). 30 millim. This species is unknown to 

 me ; figured from a drawing from type. 



Genus LEEINA. 



Type. 

 Lerina, Wlk. ii. 477 (1854) incarnata. 



Proboscis small ; pal^Di povrect, reaching just beyond the frons and clothed 

 with long hair ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long hair ; antennte 

 bi^Dectinate, in male with moderate branches, in female with very short branches ; 

 tibiffi witii the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3 from well before angle ; 5 from or from above angle ; 6 from upper ano^le ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 from cell in male, stalked with 7, 8, 9 in female ; 1 1 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from near angle ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1104. Lerina incarnata. 



Lerina incarnata, Wlk. ii. 477 ("1854); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het i 

 p. 122, & ii. p. 394, pi. 77. f. 14 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 287. 



Head, tegulae, and patagia deep crimson ; palpi, frons, antenna, 

 and thorax black ; abdomen with the basal half black ; the terminal 

 half deep crimson, with dorsal series of black points ; wings deep 

 bronze-green. 



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Fig. 366. — Lerina incarnata, (^ . \. 



Hab. Mexico, type S •> W. Mexican tableland, Coll. H.M.S. 

 ' Herald,' 1 § , Durango {Beclcer), 1 (S , Salvin-Godman Coll, 

 Uxjy. 46 millim. 



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