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squamoso-pilosa. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi robusti, squamoso 

 liirti, suberecti, verticem non superantes; articulus 3"' conicus. 

 Antennae robustse, glabrae. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans; 

 dorsum cristatum; fasciculus apicalis spissus, elongatus. Pedes 

 fimbriati, sat graciles; calcaria gracilia. AIjb anticae longse, apice 

 subrotundatae, margine exteriore rotundo sat obliquo. 



Male. Body cylindrical, moderately stout. Head and tliorax 

 thickly clothed with squamous hairs. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi stout, thickly clothed with squamous hairs, nearly erect, 

 applied to the head, not rising higher than the vertex; 3rd joint 

 conical, not more than one-sixth of the length of the 2nd. 

 Antennae stout, smooth. Abdomen extending a little beyond the 

 hind wings, with dorsal crests, and with a large elongate apical 

 tuft. Legs rather slender; femora and tibiae fringed; spurs 

 slender, moderately long. Wings elongate. Fore wings slightly 

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

 •ith inferior vein remote from the other three, which are approxi- 

 mate to each other, 



30. TuERTA CHRYSOCHLORA. Mas. Obscure ferrugineo fusca, 

 subtus ochracea; antennis nigris; abdomine ochraceo nigro-cristato; 

 alls anticis cinereo conspersis plaga maxima pallide viridi; alis 

 posticis ochraceis fusco late marginatis fimbria pallide cinerea. 



Male. Dark ferruginous brown, ochraceous beneath. Antennae 

 black. Abdomen ochraceous, with small black crests. Fore 

 wings cinereous-speckled, with a very large pale green patch, 

 Avhich extends along the costa from the base to three-fourths of 

 the length, and is widest beyond its middle, where it occupies 

 tliree-fourths of the breadth of the wing. Hind wings ochraceous, 

 with a broad brown border; fringe pale cinereous. Length of the 

 body 8 lines; of the wings 20 lines. See Plate VI, Fig. 7. 



Gen. Petrinia, 



Foem. Corpus robustum, Prol^oscis mediocris. Palpi sat 

 graciles, oblique ascendentes, verticem non superantes; articulus 

 3"^ lanceolatus 2' dimidio brevior. Antennae graciles. Abdomen 

 alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes sat validi; calcaria longa, 

 graciha. Alae anticai apice rotundatae, margine exteriore convexo 

 perobliquo. 



Feviale. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi rather 



