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above ; the third joint is very small, slender, short, not one- 

 third as wide as the second. The antennae are well pectinated, 

 the branches extending to the tip, where they are unusually long', 

 being" longer at the end than in Sisyrosea, and more as in Lagoa ; 

 the branches are also unusually scaly. 



The fore wings are more regularly triangular in outline than 

 usual ; the costa is unusually straight, and the apex is unusually 

 pointed. The wing is not quite so wide as in H. pallida, and 

 the outer and inner edges are more continuous, the outer angle 

 being less marked than in H. pallida. The hind wings are a 

 little more elongated, more produced towards the apex than in 

 H. pallida. Venation : nearer to that of Heterogenea than any 

 other genus. In the fore wings, compared with those of H. pal- 

 lida, the second subcostal branch does not arise at the origin of 

 the anterior discal vein, as in H. pallida, but originates either 

 one-third or over half way between the origins of the first and 

 third branches ; the fifth branch is short, and not detached at its 

 origin from the main vein, as in Heterogenea pallida, there being 

 in Heterogenea two independent veins. The arrangement of the 

 discal veins is as in Heterogenea, and the four branches of the 

 median vein are much as in Heterogenea. Hind wings: nearly 

 as in Heterogenea, but the two branches of the subcostal may 

 originate at the base or origin of the anterior discal vein (E. ni- 

 valis), or two-thirds of the way to the apex (E. slossonics} ; in 

 Heterogenea pallida the two branches are separate at their point 

 of origin, the second subcostal vein being independent. The 

 median and other veins are much as in Heterogenea. 



The legs are rather short and with long scales, being more 

 hairy than usual ; the tarsi are a little shorter than in H. pallida 

 and more hairy. The abdomen is slender, but the genital arma- 

 ture thicker than in the H. pallida. 



The genus is named in honor of the late distinguished Cuban 

 zoologist. (Poeya Bourg. is a genus of molluscs.) This genus 

 need not be confounded with Heurctes picticornis G. & R., from 

 the West Indies, the type of which is in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, and which I have, thanks to Mr. Beutenmiil- 

 ler, examined. It differs in the shape of the wings and in the 

 more broadly pectinated antennae. Neither is it Limacodes cre- 

 tacea or the Cuban Phryne immaculata Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phil., v, 246.). 



