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apical cilia; from the middle of the base runs a silvery white streak along the fold, nearly to the 
wing-middle, where it is suddenly depressed and diffused to the dorsum ; this is followed by a large, 
transverse, silvery white patch at the end of the cell, reaching the dorsum, and nearly reaching the 
costa, slightly bowed inward at its middle; cilia dark bronzy fuscous. Exvp.al.l1 mm. Aindwings 
and cilia dark bronzy fuscous. Abdomen bronzy fuscous above, broadly white beneath before the anal 
segment. Legs bronzy greyish. 
Type 2 (66724) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. 
Hab. Mexico: GuerRERO: Amula, 6000 ft., VIII. (H. H. Smith). Unique. 
ANCHIMACHETA, gen. n. 
(ayxpaynrhs = fighting hand-to-hand.) 
Type: Anchimacheta capnodes Wlsm. 
Antennae simple. Labial Palpi long, recurved, reaching as high as the vertex (in the dead insect somewhat 
porrect); terminal joint nearly as long as median, both joints somewhat thickened with scales. 
Maxillary Palpi and Haustellum rudimentary. Head somewhat thickly clothed. Thorax smooth. 
Forewings elongate, rather narrow, apex depressed, rounded, termen obliquely rounded to dorsum : 
neuration 12 veins, all separate; 7 to costa; cell narrow, very long as compared with the apical veins, 
an internal vein from between 6-7 to before 10; 3-4 somewhat approximate, 3 from angle of cell; 
2 from outer ninth of cell, but well-separated from 8; basal fork of 1 obsolete. Hindwings nearly 1, 
costa rather straight, termen obliquely rounded: neuration 8 veins, all separate; 2-5 more remote 
than 5-7, cell obliquely receding from 5; 6-7 parallel. Abdomen moderate. Legs: hind tibiae haired 
above. 
Allied to Lamprosetia Stn., and having very similar oral structure and neuration, 
a careful comparison of slides, however, makes evident several small but important 
differences, especially in the forewing—vein 11 originates at half the length of the 
cell in Anchimacheta, while in Lamprosetia this vein leaves the media within the 
basal third; the internal vein is from between 7-8 in Lamprosetia, but it is from 
between 6-7 in Anchimacheta and 3-4 are approximate, while 3-7 are remote and 
almost equidistant in Lamprosetia. 
1. Anchimacheta iodes, sp. n. 
The description of A. capnodes Wlsm. (the type of the genus) would apply in all particulars to this species, 
with the following exceptions:—In size it is a little smaller, the hindwings are a little narrower, the 
mediocostal shade-patch is rather less diffused and rather farther removed from the preceding patch, 
but, above all other differences, it can be most easily separated by a strong tinge of light rust-brown 
which overspreads the base of the hindwings. Exp, al. 12 mm. 
Type 3 (66055); Q (66056) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [PIT. (66060-1) US. Nat. Mus.] 
Hab. Mexico: euerrero: Amula, 6000 ft, VIIl (4. H. Smith). Seven 
specimens. 
There are five undoubted males of this species in the collection, and two females, 
taken at the same time and place, but the females differ in having shorter palpi and 
in the absence of the rust-brown shade at the base of the hindwings; their colouring 
is perhaps also a little more generally suffused—they cannot be determined with 
certainty as belonging to the same species. 
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