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16. Genus: Cardepia Hmps. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genus and chiefly distinguished by the reniform projection in the 
centre of the frons not showing a horny plate below it. All the rest as in Epia. In America. Only 1 species: 
C. nova 8m. (18 a) is somewhat like a Scot, trifolii ; the whitish forewing is densely strewn and dusted nova. 
with red-brown and blackish-brown, the transverse lines only at the costal margin double, the posterior line 
sharply dentate and with black and white dots behind it on the veins; the small blackish-brown coniform macula 
is surrounded with black, the upper maculae are rather small, surrounded with light, the reniform macula below 
filled up with dark, between them a dentate median shade; before the indistinct light undulate line there are 
black sagittae in the middle. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. United States from Colorado 
to Arizona and New Mexico. 
17. Genus: Triclioclea Grt. 
Distinguished from the two preceding genera by a small round projection on the frons with a horny 
plate below it; the palpi, particularly the last joint, are somewhat more porrect; the thorax is intermixed with 
hair; the first joints of the anterior tarsi exhibit the same bent, claw-shaped spines as in Epia and Cardepia. 
Several North American species; as to the palearctic species vid. Vol. Ill, p. 83. 
T. decepta Grt. (= paupera Drc.) (18 a) has yellowish-white forewings dusted and strewn with decepta. 
yellowish-brown with rather indistinct double transverse lines, small maculae surrounded with black, of which 
the reniform macula is pupilled brownish-black, and an indistinct undulate median line between them; the 
white undulate line shows on the proximal side in blackish-brown shading minute blackish sagittae, and behind 
it the marginal area is darkened. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. United States. Utah, 
Arizona) and Mexico (Sonora). 
T. antica Sm. (18 a) has whitish forewings strewn with brown, with single blackish transverse lines, antica. 
the posterior line being dentate, distally bordered with whitish, and with small maculae finely surrounded 
with blackish-brown, the reniform macula in a grey ring and with a dark pupil; before the dark undulate line 
there are dark spots at the costal margin and behind the cell. Hindwing white with brown veins and margin. 
California, New Mexico. 
T. postica Sm. (18 a) is extraordinarily similar to antica ; it is somewhat smaller on an average posiica. 
and chiefly distinguished by the anterior transverse line extending here almost straight from the costal margin 
to the proximal margin, whilst in antica it extends very obliquely distally to the submedian fold, whence it 
bends again proximally. From Colorado. 
T. edwardsi Sm. (18 a) is likewise closely allied to the two preceding species, with light brownish-grey edwardsi. 
forewings, at the end of the coniform macula small reddish-yellow scales; the ring-macula is extinct, the reniform 
macula marked by a small dark spot in the lower cell-angle; the undulate line is marked by a row of small 
dark sagittae. Hindwing white with a broad blackish-brown marginal band and darkened veins. California. 
T. fuscolutea Sm. (18 b) is a somewhat larger species with brownish-white forewings with an fuscoluiea. 
ochreous-yellow tinge and strewn with a dark colour, indistinct dentate transverse lines and brown-pupilled 
maculae in white rings, the ring-macula obliquely elliptical, above open, the reniform macula prolonged proxi- 
mad on the median; before the white undulate line there are small blackish-brown sagittae, behind it small 
dark spots. Colorado. 
T. u-scripta Sm. (18 a). Forewing yellowish-brown, strewn with a darker colour, on the costal margin u-scripta. 
and veins blackish-brown, strewn with white with quite extinct or absent transverse lines; the upper maculae 
are hardly visible, below the reniform macula there is a distinct white U-shaped line with a white line before 
it on the median; instead of the undulate line there are some small dark sagittae behind which the marginal 
area is darkened; fringes on the ends of the veins striped white. Hindwing light brownish-black, on the veins 
and margin darker. Colorado and California. 
T. artesta Sm. (18 b) has light red-brown forewings strewn with white particularly in the proximal artesta. 
part and at the costal margin behind the middle; the indistinct transverse lines are on the averted sides edged 
with white, behind the posterior line there are blackish-brown and white dots on the veins; the upper maculae 
are in white rings, the ring-macula pupilled brown, the reniform macula white, its white ring being divided 
into several small spots; undulate line white. Hind wing white, on the veins and margin brownish. United 
States (Illinois, Colorado, Kansas). 
T. ruisa Forbes differs somewhat from the diagnose of the genus by the frons being provided with ruisa. 
a finely roughened convexity below which there is a foveolate hollow instead of the horny plate. Forewing 
dull reddish-brown with indistinct double transverse lines, behind the distal one with dark streaks on the veins; 
ring-macula extinct, the reniform macula large, with a dark pupil as the only dark spot in the uniform ground- 
oolour, below distally with a roundish white spot. Hindwing dingy white with a darker marginal third. Expanse 
cf wings: 30 mm. From North Carolina, described according to one specimen. 
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