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tlie outer one contiguous to a large intermediate deep ocliraceous 

 ocellus, which includes a vitreous dot, and is bordered with deep 

 black, and with pale dull green, and lastly with purplish white; 

 exterior border slightly rounded. Length of the body 16| lines; 

 of the wings 62 lines. See Plate VI, Fig. 6. 



Gen. Tachosa. 



Mas et Fcef/i. Corpus robustum. Caput fasciculo frontali 

 brevissinio. Proboscis valida. Palpi robusti, erecti, verticem 

 perpauUo superantes; articulus S"'' linearis, graciles, 2' dimidio 

 brevior. Pedes vix robusti; femora subfimbriata; calcaria longa, 

 gracilia. Alee anticse sat angustse, apice subrotundatse, margine 

 exteriore convexo subobliquo. Mas. Antennce setosse, apices 

 versus glabrae. Abdomen alas posticas longe superans; fasciculus 

 apicalis longus, compressus. F(xm. Antennae glabrae. Abdomen 

 non elongatum. 



Male and Female. Body stout. Head with a very short frontal 

 tuft. Eyes large, prominent. Proboscis robust, moderately long. 

 Palpi stout, erect, rising very little higher than the vertex; 3rd 

 joint linear, rounded at the tip, much more slender than the 2nd, 

 and about one-third of its length. Antennje slender, setose for 

 two-thirds of the length in the male, smooth in the female. 

 Abdomen tapering, extending very mucli beyond the hind wings 

 in the male, shorter in the female; apical tuft of the male long, 

 compressed. Legs hardly stout; femora slightly fringed; spurs 

 long, slender. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips; exterior border rounded, slightly oblique; 

 1st, 2nd, and 3rd inferior veins approximate at the base; 

 4th remote. 



28. Tachosa acronyctoides. Mas et Foem. Cana capite 

 fusco-fasciato; palpis fusco fasciatis; thorace fascia antica fusca; 

 abdomine cinereo pilis basalibas longis; alis anticis nigro con- 

 spersis, fusco nebulosis, lineis tribus nigris angulosis, l"'' abreviata, 

 2^ ramum emittente, 3* albo submarginata, punctis marginalibus 

 nigris, alis posticis fuscis, basi cinereis et subhyalinis. 



3Iale and Female. Hoary, cinereous beneath. Head with a 

 narrow brown band on the vertex. 2nd and 3rd joints of tlie 

 palpi brown, hoary at the base and at the tip. Thorax with a 

 brown band on the fore tegulae. Abdomen cinereous, with long 



