ALTPIA.. 



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Genus ALYPIA. 



Type. 



Alyjjia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 351 (1827) octomaculata, 



Androloma, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. i. p. 30 (1873) mac-cullocki. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with very 

 long hair in front, the 3rd moderate and clothed with hair ; frons with trun- 

 cate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennas almost simple, 

 distinctly dilated towards extremity ; tibiae clothed with rough hair on outer 

 side; the mid and hind tibiae with long hair ; abdomen dorsally clothed with 

 rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from 

 above angle, 6 from just below upper angle, 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole, 7 from end of areole; II from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Androloma). Fore wing of male with a dilation of costa and a groove 

 of ribbed membrane below it from base extending to beyond middle. 



179. Alypia mac-cuUochi. 



Alypia mac-cullochii, Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Amer. iv. p. 301, pi. 4. f. 5 (1837) ; 



Stretch, Zyg. k Bomb. N. Am. p. 211, pi. 8. f. 2 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 34. 

 Alypia lorquinii, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 328, pi. 6. f. 39 



(1868); Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 12, pi. 1. f. 4; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 34. 

 Alypia similis, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 14, pi. 1. f. 5 (1872); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 34. 

 Alypia edwardsii, Boisd. Eev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 63 (1874). 

 Alypia similis, var. conjuncta, H. Edw. Papilio, iii. p. 34 (1883). 



Black ; basal half of antennae ringed with white ; a rim behind 

 eyes, slight spots on tegulse, and stripes on patagia pale yellow ; 

 fore and mid tibiae orange, the former with black spot ; tarsi ringed 



Fig. 279. — Alypia maC'Culloehi, cf . \. 



with white ; abdomen with slight yellow dorsal spots at base. 

 Fore wing with triangular yellow patch from near base to beyond 

 middle, and from subcostal nervure to submedian fold intersected 

 by the black median vein ; a spot in upper end of cell ; a band 

 be)^ond the cell between vreins 8 and 2 intersected by the black 

 veins ; a silvery-blue streak below basal half of costa and on vein 1 ; 

 a V-shaped mark enclosing the spot in end of cell ; a curved sub- 

 terminal band. Hind wing with white patch in cell conjoined to a 



