ANDESIA. LEPIPOLYS. 



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black streaks interrupted by ochreous points beyond it in tbe 

 interspaces, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia ochreous inter-' 

 sected with black. Hind wing olive-brown, the terminal area 

 slightly darker ; cilia pale ochreous, brown at base ; the underside 

 greyish irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Akgentina, Mendoza, Puenta del Inca, 2 c? , 1 $ type. 

 Ex J). 26 millim. 



Geniis LEPIPOLYS. 

 Lepipolys, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 173 (1852) 



Type. 



•perscripia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair 

 in front; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male minutely 

 serrate and fasciculate or cihated ; head and thorax clothed entirely with 

 large scales, the teguls with slight dorsal ridge, the metathorax with small 

 crest ; fore tibiaa very short and broad with long curved claw on inner side, 

 short claw on outer and corneous plate between thera ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, 

 the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3. .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 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



•Sect. I. Antenna; of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



2250. Lepipolys Ijehrensi. 



Oncocnemis behrensi, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 65 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 160. 



<S . Head and thorax pale grey-brown irrorated with some large 

 black scales ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brownish grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing pale grey-brown sparsely 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, minutely waved ; 

 claviform faintly defined by a few black scales ; orbicular and 



Fig. 45. — Lepipolys belirensi, (^ . 



reuiform defined by black and with some fuscous in centres, the 

 former round ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, cxcurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white 



