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Beneath both wings roseate brown, somewhat faded in hue; traces of a discal spot on the 

 fore wings, none on the hind wings, but the extradiscal dark line is common to both wings. 

 Legs reddish brown; no black hairs; tibiae and tarsi deep reddish rose. Abdomen deep yellow 

 ochre, with four black dorsal bands, tip reddish-ochreous. 

 Expanse of fore wings, 3 50 mm. 

 Length of fore wings, o* 26 mm. 

 Breadth of fore wings, 3 14 mm. 

 Length of hind wings, 3 20 mm. 

 Breadth of hind wings, 3 14 mm. 

 A very pretty species, which may be recognized by the rosy basal half of the hind wings, 

 the lilac hues, and the V-shaped lilac mark. 



Geographical distribution. — Vera Cruz, Mexico (Franck). 



ORMISCODES [Blanchard]. 



[Bombijx] Feisthamel, Voyage de la Favorite, Mag. de Zool., 2e serie, pi. 22, fig. 2, 1839. 

 Ormiscodes Blanchard, in Gay's Historia fisica y politica de Chile, Zoologia, VII, p. 61, 1852. 

 Ormiscodes Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het. [I, p. 789]. 



[The type, according to Kirby, is 0. cinnamomea Feist.] 



Imago. — 3. Front of the head moderately broad. Antennas moderately long; joints quite 

 long and slender, pectinated to the tip, the distal pectinations very slender, those on the outside 

 about three-fourths as long as the basal ones, those on the inside a little shorter. Palpi moder- 

 ately stout, third joint visible, but the terminal scales are irregular, not dense as in Rhodor- 

 miscodes. Thorax thick, shaggy, with long irregular black paddle-shaped scales. Abdomen 

 extending well beyond the hind wings, and with irregular paler hair-like scales, longer than the 

 normal vestiture. 



Fore wings not subfalcate, costa straight; apex subacute; outer edge not full, straight, 

 and with no tendency to be hollowed out. 



Hind wings rather square at the apex; outer edge moderately full, not regularly rounded, 

 being most convex toward the end of vein II 3 . 



Legs stout and hairy. Abdomen rather long. 



The genus may be known by the fore wings not being even subfalcate, the costa being 

 straight, and the hind wings rather square at the apex. The palpi are moderately stout, the 

 scales of uneven length, and the third joint visible. 



Geograjjhical distribution. — West coast of South America; from Chile. 



[Species assigned to Ormiscodes have been described from Central America and Brazil, as 

 0. amariUa Schaus (Costa Rica), and the Brazilian 0. albilinea Schaus, O.fornax Druce, 0. delta 

 Foetterle, 0. irregularis Foetterle, and O.ayurusca Foetterle; the last three beautifully figured 

 in colors in Rev. Mus. Paulista, V.] 



ORMISCODES CINNAMOMEA Feisthamel. 



Plate LIII, fig. 6. 



Ormiscodes cinnamomea Feisthamel, Voyage de la Favorite, Mag. de Zool., 2d eerie, pi. 22, fig. 2. 



Ormiscodes cinnamomea Blanchard in Gay's Historia fisica y politica de Chile, Zoologia, VII, p. 61, 1852, pi. 4, 1854. 



Ormiscodes cinnamomea Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lep. Het., I, p. [790], 



Ormiscodes crinila Blanchard [t. c. pi. 4, f. 4]. 



Imago. — One 3 . Body, antenna?, and wings pale ochreous; head and under side of thorax 

 and abdomen dull ochreous or snuff color. Thorax rough and shaggy with longer black lanceo- 

 late oval or paddle shaped scales projecting upward from in front, the thorax behind being more 

 ochreous. 



Wings pale ochreous, washed with white scales. Basal line a little nearer the discal spot 

 than the thorax, zigzag with three scallops, ending behind near the middle of the inner edge. 

 A conspicuous white irregularly lunate discal spot, with a minute white dot in front at the 

 origin of vein II 4 . Extradiscal line straight, not zigzag, deep ochreous, with white scales inside 

 of it, and situated a little nearer the discal spot than the outer edge of the wing. A short oblique 



