
GLY PHIDOCERA.—ENERGIA. 1138 
Allied to vestzta Wlsm., but differing in the smaller notch in the antennae, and in 
the absence of thickened scale-mats on the hindwings and abdomen: both species have 
typical neuration (FW: 7-8 coincident, 6 and 9 separate ; 2-3 stalked). 
ENERGIA, gen. n. 
(€vépyera = action.) 
Type: Energia subversa Wlsm. 

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J.H. Durrant, del. 
24." Energia subversa Wism. &. 
Antennae simple, basal joint without pecten. Mawillary Palpi short. Labial Palpi long, recurved, smooth, 
median joint somewhat thickened with smoothly appressed scales; terminal joint long, but shorter than 
median. Haustellum scaled at base. Head with strong side-tufts, meeting above. Thorax smooth. 
Forewings with the costa slightly raised at the base, apex depressed, rounded: newration 12 veins; 
7-8 stalked, 7 to costa; rest separate, 2-5 approximate, from end of cell. Hindwings 1+, termen and 
dorsum evenly rounded: neuration 8 veins; 6-7 stalked ; 3-4 stalked ; 5 cubital, closely approximate 
and almost connate with stalk of (8+4). Abdomen smooth. Legs: hind tibiae only slightly roughened 
above. 
An early form of the group of Glyphidocera Wlsm.; closely allied to Durrantia 
Busck, from which it differs in the form of the forewings, and in having FW: 2 
approximate to 3, not remote as in that genus. 
1. Energia subversa, sp. n. | 
Antennae bone-white, faintly tinged with fawn-brownish above. Palpi white, the median joint fawn-brown 
externally to two-thirds. Head pale fawn-brownish ; face white. Thorax pale fawn-brownish. ore- 
wings rather shining, bone-white, with a wash of pale fawn-brownish, from base to termen along the 
dorsal half, its margins ill-defined ; a short brownish fuscous streak to about one-sixth from the base, 
between the costa and the fold; a shorter streak of the same in the fold a little before its middle, with 
a small spot on the disc above it, and a strong spot at the end of the cell; this spot lies in the course 
of the first of the two oblique, transverse, pale fawn-brownish bands, which, dilated on the middle of 
the costa, descends obliquely outward to the end of the cell, and is thence recurved to the dorsum at 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Heter., Vol. IV., May 1912. aq 
