464 HETEROCERA. 
1. Lascoria phormisalis. (Tab. XXXVIII. figg. 14, ¢; 15, 9.) 
Lascoria phormisalis, Walk. Cat. xix. p. 839 (3) °. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus); GuatemMaua, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet, Volcan de 
Atitlan 2500 to 3500 feet (Champion) ; Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet 
(Rogers); Panama, Chiriqui (ibbe, in mus. Staudinger), Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 
3000 feet (Champion).—Sovtu-East Brazit, Rio Janeiro !. 
It may be useful to note here that the types of many species described by Walker 
from Mr. Fry’s collection, including that of the present insect, are now in the late 
Mr. Saunders’s collection in the museum at Oxford. 
OTACES, gen. nov. 
Male. Head, including the eyes, small ; the thorax rather broad ; the tegule long ; the abdomen stout, extend- 
ing slightly beyond the wings. Palpi large, porrect; second joint long and flat, thickly clothed with 
hairs ; third joint small and very fine. Proboscis short and slender. Antenne about half the length of 
the primaries, very slender, and tufted with hair near the end. Legs long and slender, with long spurs. 
The primaries with their costal margin straight, slightly rounded at the apex ; the outer margin angular 
and deeply cleft near the anal angle ; at the base of the cleft is a tuft of short hairs similar to that present 
in the genus Lascoria; on the underside the costal margin is thickly clothed with short hair from the 
base almost to the apex, and there is a tuft of long appressed silky hairs extending across the wing from 
near the inner margin. The secondaries large and very much rounded from the apex to the anal angle. 
The fringe of both wings rather long. | 
Type Otaces lineata. 
This genus is allied to Gaberasa and Lascoria, from both of which it may be at once 
distinguished by the shape of the primaries, the differently formed palpi, and the tufted 
antennee in the male. 
1. Otaces lineata, sp.n. (Tab. XX XVIII. figg. 16, 16a, 3.) 
Male, Primaries dark brown, with the costal margin from the base almost to the apex broadly edged with pale 
yellowish-brown, three dark brown lines crossing the wing from the costal margin (which they do not 
quite touch) to the inner margin, and a large somewhat oval grey spot close to the anal angle, above 
which a faint yellowish-brown line extends almost to the apex, the fringe and the tuft of hair at the base 
of the cleft brown; secondaries dull brown, paler at the base, the fringe yellowish-brown; the underside 
brown, that of the secondaries irrorated with greyish scales and crossed by two dark brown lines: head 
in front, palpi, and sides of the thorax yellowish-brown, the rest of the thorax, the antenne, and tegule 
dark brown ; the abdomen dull brown, similar in colour to the secondaries; the legs pale brown. The 
female very similar to the male, but with simple antennz and without the cleft in the primaries. Expanse, 
3 9,14 inch. 
Hab. Panama, Chiriqui (Azbbe; mus. Staudinger). 
Our description and figure are taken from Dr. Staudinger’s specimens, those in our 
own collection being very much worn. 
SITOPHORA. 
Sitophora, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lep. viii. p. 74 (1854); Walker, Cat. xvi. p. 181. 
This genus was founded by Guenée upon the male of a Brazilian insect. It is 
