SIMONEURA. 

APOPIRA. 73 
1. Simoneura ophitis, sp. n. (Tab. II. fig. 29.) 
Antennae pale greyish brown. Palpi pale steel-greyish, slightly shaded on the outer side of the median 
joint. Head and Thorax greyish brown ; face steel-grey. Forewings greyish brown, with a conspicuous, 
yellowish white, serpentine patch at the apex, extending downward to the tornus and through the tornal 
cilia ; above it is a minnte, white, outwardly oblique costal streak, beyond which the dark ground-colour 
is attenuate outward in a narrow marginal line curving around the apex; parallel and adjacent to this 
line one still narrower, whitish ochreous in colour, separates it from a broader brownish ochreous band 
running through the cilia, following the curve around the apex; the outer portion of the cilia white, 
narrowly tipped with grey, thus giving the appearance of five distinguishable lines of different shades of 
colour enclosing the apex. Ewp.al.10 mm. Hindwings and cilia pale greyish brown, a paler, slender 
dividing line running along the base of the cilia. Abdomen dark greyish brown; anal tuft slightly 
ochreous. Legs greyish brown, the ends of the tibiae and the joints of the tarsi pale cinereous. 
Type & (65862) Mus. W1sm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PT'T. (65864-5) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: Tabasco: Teapa, III. (H. H. Smith). Five specimens. 
APOPIRA, gen. n. 
(dxéweipa = probation.) 
Type: Gelechia falcatella Wkr. (Tab. II. fig. 14.) 







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J. H. Durrant del 17. Apopira falcatella Wkr. 3, Q. 
Antennae 2, simple ; basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi recurved; median joint somewhat flattened, 
and widened with smooth scales disposed in annular ridges projecting slightly on its upper side, smooth 
beneath; terminal joint not longer than median, slender, erect. Maxillary Palpi short. Haustellum 
scaled. Ocelli absent. Head and Thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate, scarcely widened 
outward, apex but slightly depressed, subfalcate, termen sinuate beneath apex, apical cilia falcate : 
neuration 11 veins; 7-8 coincident, to costa ; 6 almost connate with (7+8), running to immediately 
below apex ; 5 and 3 approximate to 4; 2remote. Hindwings trapezoidal, widening outward, termen 
not sinuate beneath apex: neuration 8 veins ; 3-4 approximate, 4 from lower angle of cell, 3 from 
before angle (with a lens only, 3-4 would be described as connate, but under the microscope they are as 
described); 5 about midway between 6 and 4, discoidal angulated inward at internal vein between 5-4 ; 
6-7 separate, but approximated ; 12 connected to radius by 11. Abdomen slender. Legs: hind tibiae 
with a patch of hairs on their basal half above. 
Allied to Aproaerema Drnt. and Polyhymno Chmb., differing from the former in 
the loss of a vein in the forewings, by coincidence of FW:7-8; from the latter 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1911. ll 
