LEPIDOFTERA HETF.ROCERA. I l!M 



Genus 29. ARTACE. 

 Corpus sat validum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi por- 

 J 'recti, pilosi, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us minutus, eonicus. 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosi , tibia 

 posticae calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Ala3 sat angus 

 anticoe apud costam recta?, apice rotundata?, marline cxteriore per- 

 obliquo. Mas.— Antenna) subpeetinatae, triente basali late pec- 

 tinate. Fcem. — Antenna? mediocriter pectinate. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi stout, cor- 

 rect, pilose, not extending beyond tbe bead ; first joint short ; third 

 (minute, conical. Abdomen extending a little beyond tbe bind 

 (wings. Legs stout, pilose; bind tibiae with two minute apical 

 ^ispurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings straight in front, 

 'rounded at tbe tips, very oblique along the exterior border ; interior 

 Wangle somewhat rounded and very obtuse; first and second inferior 

 veins contiguous at tbe base ; third about twice further from the 

 fourth than from the second. Mate. — Antennae rather deeply pecti- 

 nated to beyond one-third of their length, slightly pectinated from 

 thence to the tips. Female. — Antennae moderately pectinated. 



North America. 



1. ART ACE PUNCTISTBIGA. 



Mas. Alba; tarsi nigro fasciati ; pedes antice e pi! is tongis den- 

 sissime vestiti ; alee anticce e guttis nigris quadrifasciala, po$» 

 ticce macula transversa fuscescente. 



White. Antennae with tawny branches. Tarsi with black 

 ^bauds. Fore legs very thickly clothed with long hairs. Fore wings 

 (with four oblique bands of black dots on the veins; these bands form 

 leach an angle near tbe costa, and there the dots are largest, and the 

 .space between them is occasionally blackish ; a row of black dots 

 ^(whioh are occasionally obsolete) between the veins on the exterior 

 border. Hind wings with a transverse more or less indistinct brown- 

 ish mark near the interior angle. Length of the body 8 — 10 lines . 

 of tbe wings 16 — 24 lines. 



a—-/. Georgia. 





