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Psyche 6:487-490, 1891.

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yond this near the apex on the costa are some obscure darker markings, and near the outer angle is a small oval patch of raised dark brown scales. The secondaries are uni- formly pale fuscous, slightly darker on the outer margins. Under side : The wings are pale g~ayish white with an obscure lunate discal mark at the end of the cell ofthe prim- aries, and a similar, but more conspicuous mark, at the end of the cell of the secon- daries. These marks in both wings are fol- lowed by incomplete and obscure transverse limbal and transverse marginal lines. The fringes of the primaries on the under side are checked with dark brown, or blackish, as on the upper side. The fringes of the secondaries above and below are very faintly checked in the'same way.
Q.
What I take to be the female of this
species resembles the male just described in all respects, save that it is larger and the general coloration is more uniformly olive- brown with the markings dark brown and
somewhat more diffuse. The antennae, of
course, are less strongly pectinated in this sex. Expanse 3, 30 mm. ; $ , 35 mm.
143. S. chloe, sp. nov. 8. Front pale
brown; collar, tegulae and upper side of thorax dark green; upper side of abdomen and lower side of thorax and abdomen to- gether with the legs pale ruddy, with the outer edges of the tibiae covered with
pale green scales. Upper side: The prim- aries are bright pea-green, shading into greenish-white on the outer margin and trav- ersed by obscure transverse basal, geminate transverse median, and geminate transverse limbal lines. - There is an obscure dark green dot at the end of the cell, and some blackish mukings on the costa and the
outer margin near the apex. The fringes
are uniformly pale whitish. The secon-
daries are pale ruddy-brown with the basal half darker brown, and on the costa tinged with pale green, striped near the outer angle by three or four lines of dark green.
On
the under side, both wings are very pale and creamy tinged with ruddy, the inner two- thirds of the costa and the cell being clouded, with dark purplish-brown.
Expanse, 33 mm.
144. 5. falsa, sp. nov. 3. Front,
thorax, and abdomen brown; legs concol-
orous. Primaries dark brown with a multi- tude of irregular and vaguely defined
transverse lines and markings of obscure gray, defined inwardly and outwardly by
very narrow lines of dark brown raised
scales. The fringes are pale regularly
checked with dark brown on the interspaces. The secondaries are uniformly ruddy-brown with the costa near the outer angle barred with darker brown. On the under side, the wings are dark brown with the marginal
area of both wings uniformly margined with paler brown. On the secondaries there is an obscure discal mark at the end of the cell, followed by a slightly paler transverse
median fascia. Expanse, 35 mm.
145. S. ~ro'pingua, sp. nov. 3. Allied to S. bitioides, from which it differs in having the fore wings relatively shorter, broader, and more rounded at the apex. The ground color of the primaries is greenish with gemi- nate basal, sub-basal, and transverse limbal lines of brown with a pale green spot on the costa about the middle extending over the end of the cell. There is a uniform submar- ginal series of dark brown lunulate markings and some dark brown spots between this and the transverse limbal markings near the outer angle. The secondaries on the upper side are pale brown with the costa stramineous, banded near the outer angle with three incom- plete bands of dark brown. The abdomen
and the wings on the lower side are pale stramineous, the costa and outer area of the primaries being broadly laved with fuscous. Expanse, 33 mm.




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NORRACA, Moore.
146. N. sigmfera, sp. nov. 3. Front,
collar, and anterior edge of patagia dark brown ; posterior edge of patagia light rosy- brown ; upper side of thorax and abdomen rosy-fawn ; lower side of the abdomen and of the legs similarly colored. Upper side : the primaries are pale rosy-brown, darkest on the costa and at the apex. On the middle and at the end of the cell, are two obscure subquad- rate spots of darker brown margined exter- nally and internally by very fine parallel lines. Below the spot in the middle of the cell, there is a dark blackish subquadrate spot. There is a regular series of fine submarginal lines on the interspaces arranged in echelon from the apex to the outer angle. The sec- ondaries are whitish slightly tinged with pale pinkish. Under side : both primaries and secondaries are uniformly pinkish-white. Expanse, 38 mm.
147. N. brevifennis, sp. nov. $. Wings
relatively short and broad ; front dark brown ; occiput yellowish ; patagia and upper side of thorax dark brown; upper side of abdomen lighter brown ; under side of thorax and ab- domen and legs pale brown. Upper side:
Primaries dark brown with the base and a broad subtriangular patch above the outer angle on the margin pale yellowish. The
pale area at the base is marked by two narrow dark brown lines forming a figure eight, the upper circle in which anastomoses with a narrow dark line situated on the median ner- vule. In the middle of the cell and near the end are obscure darker quadrate spots sepa- rated from each other by a pale spot. There is a series of submarginal dark lines on the interspaces parallel to the outer margin. The fringes, which are narrow, are dark brown. The secondaries, which are uniformly very pale brown, have the fringes narrowly dark brown. The wings on the under side are
uniformly pale rosy-brown, the fringes being as on the upper side. Expanse, 28 mm.
Habitat, Benita.
148. N. lineata, sp. nov. $. Front and
collar dark brown; patagia, upper side of thorax and abdomen somewhat paler; under side of thorax and abdomen and legs pale reddish-brown. The upper side of the prim- aries i~ pale brown, the same color as the thorax, heavily clouded with blackish-brown on the inner margin near the outer angle. There are some obscure annular markings on the cell, a distinct annulus below the cell near the origin of the first median nervule, a blackish V-shaped dash about the middle of the inner margin with the vertex pointing toward the cell, and two straight narrow transverse black lines parallel to each other running from before the apex to the inner margin before the outer angle. The inner- most of these lines is the heavier. There is a subtriangular series of fine curved lines on the interspaces.
The fringes are dark brown.
The secondaries on the upper side are uni- formly pale fuscous.
On the under side the
primaries and the secondaries are uniformly pale brown, and both are crossed by a some- what broad diffuse transverse median line. Expanse, 32 mm.
149. N. arc///emis, sp. nov. 3. Front,
collar and upper side of thorax dark maroon ; the upper side of the abdomen dark fuscous ; the under side of the thorax and abdomen together with the legs pale rosy-brown.
The
upper side of the primaries is rich maroon with two obscure annular markings, one on the middle of the cell, and the other at the end, and a submarginal series of darker spots on the interspaces. The secondaries are
uniformly dark fuscous. Both wings on the under side are pale reddish-brown and both have very obscure suggestions of diffuse transverse median lines. Expanse, 30 mm. Habitat Benita.
TURNACA, Walk.
150. T. grisea, sp. nov. 3. Tips of
palpi whitish; the front, collar, and upper side of thorax and abdomen gray ; lower side



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of the thorax, abdomen, and legs white.
The
primaries on the upper side are uniformly gray, irrorated with minute darker scales and marked by a submarginal series of minute white spots punctuated inwardly with minute blackish spots. The secondaries are gray, slightly paler than the primaries. The under side of the primaries is clouded with fuscous except on the costa and outer margins. The under side of the secondaries is white.
9. The female has the antennae much
less strongly pectinated than the male, and the primaries are produced somewhat acutely at the apex.
Expanse, f , 35 to 37 mm. ; 9,
50 mm.
I 51. T. ignobilis, sp. nov. 3. Front,
collar, and upper side of thorax obscure gray- ish ; upper side of abdomen and lower side of thorax and abdomen whitish. The upper side of the primaries is whitish with an obscure transverse basal and median zigzag line. There is a submarginal series of small black dots on the interspaces. The second- aries on the upper side and the primaries and the secondarie's on the under side are uni- formly white, shining.
Expanse, 38 mm.
RAMESA, Walk.
152. R. (?) minzttu, sp. nov. 3. The
head, and thorax grayish; the upper side of the abdomen paler gray ; the under side of the thorax and the legs dark gray; the under side of the abdomen whitish. The primaries are grayish-white with a number of minute linear dashes on the outer half of the wing and crossed from the base to the middle of the outer margin by a dark blackish ray. The secondaries on the upper side are pale testa- ceous. On the under side both wings are
uniformly testaceous. Expanse, 28 mm.
SCALMICAUDA*, gen. nov.
Palpi small, compressed, heavily scaled, last joint obsolescent. Antennae heavily pectinated for one half the distance from the *Scalmus = an oar; cauda = a tail.
base ; the culmen simple beyond the middle. The abdomen projects for one-third of its length beyond the hind margins of the
wings, and is provided with a long conspicu- ous brush of anal hairs as in the genus
Ichthyura. The primaries are elongated,
with the costa straight, slightly rounded at the apex, the outer margin straight, the inner margin curved, with the outer angle excised. The secondaries are subpyriform. In the primaries vein 6 is given off beyond the cell ; veins 8 and 9 anastomose to near the apex. In the hind wings veins 7 and 8 are stalked, vein 9 runs along the upper edge of the cell. Type 5. benga, Holl.
153. '5'. benga, sp. nov. f. Front and
collar dark brown; patagia and upper side of thorax and abdomen dark gray; legs
brown; under side of abdomen grayish-
brown. Primaries grayish-brown traversed by a pale line running from the apex diagon- ally to the middle of the inner margin, and defined inwardly by dark brown. The area within this line is dark brown contrasting with the lighter area beyond it toward the margin. There is a very fine pale curved sub-basal line succeeded by an annulus on the middle and also at the end of the cell, a similar annulus below the cell at the origin of the median nervule. There are some zig- zag narrow submarginal markings shaded
inwardly by rusty sagittate spots. The sec- ondaries on the upper side are fuscous. On the under side both wings are pale wood- brown with the basal area of the primaries clouded with fuscous. Expanse, 36 to 40 mm. MACRONADATA, Moeschl.
154. k? brunneido~sa, sp. nov. f. Al-
lied to M. collans, Moeschl., from which it differs in lacking the dark spot at the end of the cell of the primaries, and having the middle of the abdomen on the upper side
marked by a broad brown longitudinal band. The secondaries furthermore are heavily
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PSYCHE.
transverse lines on the primaries are ar- ranged as in M. collaris. Expanse, 60 mm. I have two specimens which agree thor-
oughly and differ in the respects mentioned from the insect described and figured by Moeschler. This may be merely a varietal form of his species.
STAUROPUS, Germ.
155. 6'. spamifemis, sp. nov. 3.
Antennae heavily pectinated, except at the tip of the culmen. Front and collar very dark brown ; upper side of thorax and abdo- men dark brown; lower side of body and
legs paler brown. Primaries dark brown
with a broad sooty shade crossing the wings beyond the base. A narrow pale line runs from the costa before the apex to the middle of the outer margin. The wing is orna-
mented by numerous patches of raised
velvety scales of dark brown, margined
inwardly and outwardly with pale ferrugin- ous. The fringes are dark brown interrupted with minute white tufts at the ends of the nervules. The secondaries are brown with the costal area marked by three heavy trans- verse bands of very dark brown. The under side of the primaries and secondaries are pale wood-brown with obscure and diffuse transverse median bands of paler brown.
Expanse 38 mm.
LASIOCAMPIDAE.
STIBOLEPIS, Butl.
156. is. subiridescezs, sp. nov. $å
Front dark brown; collar and pectus pale creamy; upper side of thorax and abdomen pale fulvous ; under side of body creamy ; legs creamy with the anterior pair margined inter- nally with dark brown. Primaries on the
upper side pale fulvous crossed by waved transverse basal, transverse median, trans- verse limbal, and submarginal lines, which are produced upon the secondaries. The trans- verse limbal line is accentuated externally on both wings by a series; of small elongated whitish ~ipots, the most conspicuous being the one nearest the apex, and those nearer the inner margins of the wings. The under side of the wings is uniformly very pale yellowish-brown, lightest at the base.
The
wings are semi-diaphanous.
$ .
The female is much larger than the
male.
The wings are darker reddish and the
median surface on the under side, which is not nearly as heavily clothed with hair as in the male, is most beautifully iridescent, changing in different lights from pale green ofbrilliant purple. Expanse, 3, 34 mm. ; , 54 mm.
ESTIGENA, Moore.
157. å£ Africans, sp. nov. $. Palpi
dark brown ; front and upper side of body pale fawn ; lower side of abdomen darker brown ; the legs pale fawn. The primaries fawn with some paler markings near the base and about the middle of the wing beyond the cell. The end of the cell is marked by a minute discal dot.
The secondaries are pale fawn on the
inner margin with the costa and the outer margin as far as the middle darker brown. There are three hyaline spots, one at the end of the cell, and two just beyond it at the origin of vein 7. Immediately above these spots toward the costa are four pale yellowish spots with dark brown nuclei. The under side of both wings is marked very much as the upper side. Expanse, 58 mm.
HYPOTRABALA, gen. nov.
9.
Palpi minute, last joint exceedingly
small. Antennae relatively small with
minute setae. Legs short, hairy. Body
stout. Primaries produced at apex, the costa strongly curved beyond the middle; outer margin slightly crenulate, inner margin
curved ; veins 6 and 7 stalked ; vein 8 spring- ing from upper angle of cell. Secondaries suboval, somewhat elongated, with the outer margin slightly crenulate; veins 5 and 6



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