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tibise without supines, hind ones with long hairs; fringes unicolored; anterior 

 wing of male with costal fold. 



I>,I\TXi:UIA, n.gen. 

 Differs from Thanaos in the knob to antenna, which is more slender and 

 much less abrupt; in the palpi which are shorter and less thickly clothed 

 with bristles; and in the angulated {Daunus) or crenulated [Zampa) outline 

 of hind wings. 



Note. — L. Zampa. This semi-tropical species I sent to Mr. A. G. Butler for 

 determination, and he thus replies: " Zanipa seems to belong to a group of 

 species provisionally retained under Thanaos and of which I consider H. Baunus, 

 Cramer, to be the type. This group will consist of Daunus, Cr., Zampa, Edw., 

 Motozi, Wallgr., Purendra, Moore, and one or two undescribed species from 

 Angola and Abyssinia. Our example (British Museum) of Daunus is from St. 

 Domingo, Motozi from Natal, Purendra from India and Ceylon. It should cer- 

 tainly be separated generically, and I should be glad if you would give it a 

 distinctive name. Cramer s figure of Daunus gives a false idea of the form of 

 the species." Mr. Butler accompanied this with a pen drawing of Daunus, its 

 antennte, palpi, etc., and the definition of the genus is his own. — E. 



PlIOLI^iOR.i, Speyer. 

 Very similar to Thanaos; knob of antenna spindle-shaped, a little shorter 

 than in Thanaos; apical joint of palpi more prominent; clothing of the two 

 basal joints below snow-white; brush at base of antennae with highly scaly 

 hairs; anterior coxae white; hind tibiae with fewer and shorter hairs; body 

 more slender; abdomen longer than head and thorax; wings broader, more 

 rounded; hind margin of fore wing less oblique. 



EUDAMl'S, Swain. 

 Antennre a little longer than half the costal margin of fore wings ; knob very 

 Blender, spindle-shaped, bent hook-like just beyond the middle and extended to 

 a long, fine point; brush at base of antennae very short; one-quarter as long as 

 the diameter of the eyes; palpi surpassing front less than length of eyes; apical 

 joint short, thick, conical; tibia without spines; abdomen short, not reaching 

 the anal angle of the hind wings; male with narrow costal fold. 

 Group 1. Hind wings on sub-median nervure little or not all produced, 

 " 2. There prolonged in a lobe. 

 " 3. There caudated. 



Note. — As to Eudamus : The few species of this large genus which I have been 

 able to study allow no judgment as to the propriety or necessity of splitting them 

 into several genera. Kcrrick-Schaeffer denies that even the long-tailed species 

 are to be separated generically. I have not been able to find any other differ- 

 ence, except in the shape of the wings, and these seem not to allow the con- 

 stituting of well separated groups. — S. 



