Bulletin - United States National Museum

186 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 7
finely ringed with dark brown, scape pale brown below. Palpus
creamy white, sprinkled with dark brown, basal segment light brown,
median segment with a suft'used brownish streak along lower edge,
terminal segment white, with a broad submedian and a somewhat
narrower subapical dark brown ring. Thorax creamy white. Abdomen
glossy yellowish white.
Forewing elongate subtruncate, costa with a broad prominence at
1/3, concave beyond this, posterior third rounded and slightly
scalloped, apex pointed and slightly produced (sublanceolate), termen
sinuate, concave above, rounded beneath, with rough tufts of raised
scales. Creamy white, raised tufts touched with yellowish. Costal
edge with a brown streak, narrow at base, with a small triangular
dilatation on 1/4, and becoming broader towards the middle of
concavity, with an elogate dark brown subcostal mark at 3/5; along
posterior third of costa this brown streak is moderate, interrupted
three times on scallops by white raised tufts, fine sprinkling of different
shades of brown, arranged more or less in longitudinal rows, parallel to
veins, below costa; some finer, blackish speckling below posterior part
of costa and in apex; a small transverse group of blackish scales in
tornus; an elongate patch of raised scales on costal prominence, and
three rounded tufts of scales on scallops of the posterior thu-d of costa;
anterior discal stigma replaced by a large elongate raised tuft, reaching
to fold, above along base edged with blackish scales; a small blackish
raised tuft above this; second discal stigma replaced by a smaller,
roundish tuft, slightly postmedian, hardly edged with blackish;
some raised tufts between preceding and costal prominence; a strongly
angulate series of smaller, pure white round tufts from below 2/3 of
costa, running in a bow to between veins 6 and 7, thence straight to
tornus. Cilia white, around apex and along upper half of termen
leaden grey, along termen with a submedian series of black strigulae,
each with some iiToration below it, these patches of irroration forming
indistinct bars.
Hindwing glossy creamy white, tow^ard costa and apex very faintly
speckled with pale brownish. Cilia creamy, dull, along costa grey,
around apex brownish grey, with very faint bars along lower half.
Male genitalia: Tegumen short, semitubular, truncate. Uncus very
narrow in the middle, forming two subquadrate, hauy and large lobes.
Gnathos, two hemispherical processes with finely denticulate surface.
Valvae small, 2/3 length of tegumen, simple, subtruncate, fused along
basal half of their inner edge. Aedeagus rather thick along basal
half, apical half narrower. Neallotype, slide 5214.
Female genitalia: Resembling those of Tonica citrantha, but the
sclerotized genital segment much shorter, with rostral edge of sternite
less deeply incised. Anapophyses short and slender. Postapophyses