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process. Wings broad. Fore wings: Vein 3 before lower angle; 4 

 from lower angle; 5 slightly above angle; 6 below upper angle; 7 

 from upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked from celli 11 free. Hind wings: 

 Veins 3 and 4 stalked; 5 close to lower angle; 6 and 7 stalked. 

 Type of genus. — Cloniatarphes carunalis Scliaus. 



CLONIATARPHES CARUNALIS, new species. 



Ilale. — Head, collar, thorax, and fore wings light brown, mottled 

 with dark brown; abdomen and hind wings dull gray brown. Fore 

 wings: The mottlings consisting to a great extent of dark striae; 

 antemedial line fine, indistinct, outangied in cell; a vertical dark 

 medial shade; a round dark shade as reniform; an outcurved puncti- 

 form postmedialline; subterminal wavy, yellow brown, darkly edged; 

 terminal black points; cilia dark grejash, with still darker spots. 

 Hind wings: A fuie dark postmedial line; subterminal line yellowish 

 white. Fore wings below gray brown; a postmedial and a subter- 

 minal line on costa. Hind wings below bone white irrorated with 

 brown; a dark point in cell; a dark spot on discocellular, containing 

 a pale line; a minutely wavy postmedial line; the subterminal pale, 

 defined by dark edging. 



Expanse. — 31 mm. 



Habitat. — Petropolis, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19722, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MASTIGOPHORUS Poey. 

 Mastigophorus Poey, Centurie de Lep. de Cuba, jit. 1 , 1832. 



Male. — Palpi obliquely ascending, sharply angled back, reaching 

 thorax. Antennae pubescent ciliate. Legs smooth; a tuft on fore 

 tibiae. Wings narrow. Forewings: Apex acute; outer margin 

 inbent below vein 5; veins 3, 4, 5 equally apart; 6 close to upper 

 angle; 7 from upper angle or stalked with 8, 9, and 10; 11 free. 

 Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 on long stalk; 5 near lower angle; 6 and 

 7 stalked. 



Type of genus. — MastigopTiorus parra Poey. 



The following species may be referred also to this genus : 



Mastigophorus latipennis Herrich-Schafi'er, Corr.-Blatt. Regensburg 

 1870, p. 105. Unknown to me. 



Mastigophorus demissalis Moschler, Lep. Porto Ilico, 1890, p. 233. 

 Unknown to me. 



Mastigophorus evadnealis Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 

 vol. 11, 1913, p. 7. 



Mastigophora marima Felder and Rogenliofer, Reiso Novara, pi. 

 126, fig. 11. Does not belong here, owing to the tufted anteimae. 

 The species is unlalo^^^l to me. 



