ALYPIODES. 641 



Genus ALYPIODES. 



Alypiodes, Grote, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883) ... bimaculata. 



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

 with rough hair in front, the 3rd short, roughly scaled ; frons with long 

 truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennse almost 

 simple, hardly dilated beyond middle ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled, Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole, 7 from the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from long 

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

 cellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Tegulae with yellowish spots. 



a. Fore wing with yellowish spot in base of cell bimaculata. 



b. Fore wing without spot in base of cell, the basal area with 



pale streaks radians, 



B. Teguloe without yellowish spots ; shoulders with tufts of 



orange hair valkeri. 



187. Alypiodes bimaculata. 



Agarista bimaadata, Herr.-SchaiF. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 26 (1850) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 34. 

 Eusemia crescens, Wlk. vii. 1774 (1856) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 34. 

 Agarista grotei, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xii. p. 70 (1869). 

 Alypia trimaculata, Boisd. B,ev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 65 (1874). 

 Alypioides flavilingicis, Grote, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. viii. p. 46 (1883). 

 Alypiodes bimaculata, var. dugesii, Cock, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 201 



(1895). 



Black, shot with blue ; proboscis yellow : a yellowish rim behind 

 the eyes ; tegulae and extremities of patagia with yellowish spots. 

 Fore wing with yellowish-white spot at base ; an antemedial wedge- 

 shaped spot in cell ; a quadrate spot in end of cell, and an oblique 



Fig. 282. — Alypiodes bimaculata, ($ . j. 



band beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 varying considerably 

 in shape ; a silvery-blue streak below base of costa and spot above 

 vein 1 ; a spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; cilia usually 

 more or less white at apex of both wings. 



Ab. 1. crescens. Hind wing with yellowish spot beyond the cell 

 between veins 4 and 6. 



Ab. 2. dugesi. Hind wing also with small yellowish spot below 

 base of vein 2. 



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