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RACHEOSPILA Guende. 



liachcoapila Gucu., Phal. i, 372, 1857. 



Walk , Lep. Bet. Br. Mus., xxii, E81, 1861. 



"Antennes des ' pectindes, a sommel filiformes. Palpes a dernier 

 article lindaire, plus ou moiris lung. Corps assez robuste; l'abdomen muni 

 de petites crates redressdes ou ornd de ladies blanches, cercldes de rouge 

 obscur, conique chez les $, ovoides, dpais chez les 9. Pattes greles, assez 

 loogues, sans aigrettes; les tibias postdrieurs a deux paires d'dperons. Ailes 

 entieres, a (range liseree ou errtre coupde de rouge; les infdrieures avec 

 un coude pen, senti ou milieu." 



From the want of any male in this <. r enus, 1 am obliged to copy 

 Guenee's description. Comparing my single female of 11. sitellaria Guen., 

 from Porto Rico, I am unable to find any good structural characters to 

 separate it from females of Si/nclilord. In the style of coloration, it differs 

 decidedly, having a well-marked brown discal dot on each wing, and a dorsal 

 row of raised abdominal white round spots surrounded with red. The usual 

 white lines are represented by rows of isolated white dots. The hind wings 

 are, perhaps, a little less convex on the outer edge than in Synchio?~a. The 

 female palpi are as in Synchlora. Until our native species is discovered in 

 both sexes, the generic characters must remain as quoted from M. Guende. 

 In venation. R. site/lurid differs from Synchlora chiefly in the posterior discal 

 venule being benl in the middle rather than near the origin, as usual: other- 

 wise the venation is much as in Synchlora. 



RaCHEOSPILA L1XARIA GueUe'e. 



RachcoxpiUi Urartu Gruen., Phal., i, 374. 



Walk., Li*t Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 081, 1861. 



"26 mm . Ailes d'un beau vert-d'eau, avec un liseree rouge fin. t res-net, 

 interrompu par des points blancs vis-a-vis des traits rouges qui entre coupent 

 la frange. One ligne commune, tres-tine, dentde, d'un blanc-verd&tre, traverse 

 le milieu des ailes qui out, en outre, chacune un tres-petit point cellulaire 

 brun. Les supdrieures out la cote liseree de blanc. Dessous d'un blanc- 

 verdatre pale, avec le liseree tres-distinct. Front rouge. Abdomen avec 

 dr grandes taches blanches liserees de rouge. Amdrique septentrionale. 

 Un i. Coll. Guen." 



