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LEPTERIA; AMOLITA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
viridicosta. 
sacraria. 
parallela. 
per striata. 
fessa. 
sentalis. 
obliqua. 
pepita. 
solitaria. 
intensa. 
paranoma. 
186. Genus: Lepteria Schs. 
Closely allied to Rhyncholita , but on the hindwing with the same neuration as in Tranoses ; the fore wing 
with a pointed apex lacks the accessory cell, the two lower subcostal branches proceed from the cell, the 3 upper 
ones rise on a joint fork. Palpi twice the length of the head, above hairy. 
L. viridicosta Schs. (46 f). Forewing whitish, at the costal margin broadly light green, traversed 
by oblique darker olive-green shadows, in the cell strewn with reddish-brown, with round black maculae; 
transverse lines marked by dots, behind the distal one a white line growing broader towards the apex and 
being distally bordered with olive-green. Hindwing white with black discal and anal spots. Expanse of 
wings: 26 mm. Costa Rica. 
L< sacraria limps, has yellowish-white forewings tinted with flesh-coloured pink, scantily strewn 
with brown, with a faint brownish line behind the cell and a brown oblique line from the apex to the hind- 
margin close behind the middle. Hindwing yellowish-white with a black central dot. Peru. — Hampson describes 
besides as ,,ab. l.“ a form with a black, white-strewn subterminal band terminating faded at the anal angle, 
with intense black sub marginal dots, and single dots on the fringes; besides the palpi are laterally not black, 
which is the case in the type; it is presumably a distinct species. 
L. parallela Dgn. Forewing light yellow, with 2 faded parallel blackish transverse lines, the proximal 
line rising at the costal margin close before the apex, extending straightly through the lower cell-angle to 
the hind-margin, the second proceeding from the distal margin close below the apex; at the margin there are 
small internerval dots. Hindwing white with a blackish diaphanous central dot. Expanse of wings: 21 mm. 
Ecuador. 
187. Genus: Amolita Grt. 
Structure almost exactly like Acylita, but on the hindwing the costal branch has its normal origin 
near the base, and the tibiae are clad with scales, not hairy. Quite a number of small, rather similar species, 
partly also from Northern America, have been described. 
A. persfriata Hinps. (46 f). Forewing yellowish-white, scantily strewn with black, with a feeble 
brownish longitudinal stripe in the cell and 2 black dots each instead of the maculae; a faded subterminal shadow 
terminates beneath in a black dot. Hindwing yellowish white. Bahamas. 
A. fessa Grt. (46 f) is much larger, powdered more red-brown, the brown longitudinal stripe in the 
cell extends only to the apex, a similar stripe is situate a little below it and extends to the centre of the hind- 
margin, where it joins a feebler one extending to the base. Hindwing somewhat more brownish. United States, 
from New York to Texas and Florida. 
A. sentalis Kaye (46 f). Forewing light reddish-ochreous, scantily strewn with black, with one black 
dot each representing the ring-macula and reniform macula, and similar brown longitudinal stripes as in fessa. 
Hindwing yellowish-white. Panama to Brazil and Trinidad. 
A. obliqua Sm. (46 f) is not synonymous with sentalis, though it is very similar, but twice its size, and 
the proximal one of the two oblique bands is connected with a longitudinal band extending below r the cell. 
Florida and Texas. 
A. pepita Dyar (46 f), in size midway between the two preceding species, marked as sentalis-, the proximal 
oblique band is broad and distinct, below the apex black, farther below red-brown, the longitudinal stripe 
of obliqua is absent; the black dot at the cross-vein is either double or confluently enlarged. Mexico to Panama. 
A. solitaria Dyar resembles obliqtia, but it has less pointed forewdngs, and the proximal oblique line 
bends below the cell in a sharp angle towards the base and grows narrow and fine, not broad as in obliqua. 
Expanse of wings: 21 mm. British Guiana. 
A. intensa Dyar is likewise very similar, but the wings are not strewn dark, but in the cellular areas 
there is longitudinal powdering; the proximal oblique line is broad, faded, powdered with red, the distal line 
is fine, sometimes obsolete. Expanse of wings: 23 to 26 mm. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
A. paranoma Dyar has light straw-coloured wings being in the G feebly, in the $ very intensely strewn 
with dark; the oblique lines are fine, dusty, parallel; the median vein and its branches are striped brown, the 
small black cellular dots are distinct, the distal one usually double, hindwing feebly yellowish. Expanse of 
wings: 24 to 30 mm. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
