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cilia. Legs smooth; fore tarsi with long process at base. Fore 

 vsTings broad; apex acute, slightly falcate; outer margin rounded; 

 vein 3 well before lower angle; 4 and 5 apart from lower angle; 6 

 from upper angle; 7-10 stalked from upper angle; 11 free. Hind 

 wings: Veins 3 and 4, and 6 and 7 stalked; 5 fi'om near middle of 

 discocellular. 



Type of genus. — Hypena jadatalis Walker.* 



Genus MAMERTHES Druce. 



Mamerthes Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het., vol. 1, 1891, p. 449, pi. 37, figs. 1, la, 2. 



Male. — Palpi upcurved, reaching thorax behintl, densely but shortly 

 scaled; third joint with long hairs on inner side; palpi of female 

 acuminate. Antennae ])ubescent ciliate. Legs moderately hairy; a 

 short process on fore tibiae. Wings broad. Fore wings: Vein 3 

 before lower angle; 4 and 5 from lower angle; 6 from upper angle; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wings: Veins 3 and 4 from lower 

 angle; 5 above angle; 6 iuul 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus. — Mainerthcs nigrUinca Druce. 



Included also in this genus are the following species: 



Mamerthes ononcdls (Bocaiia) Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 

 1858, p. 186 = rnargiiialis (Bocana) Walker, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond., 

 1862, p. 115 = Simplicia tihialis, Felder and Rogenliofer, Keise 

 Novara, 1873, pi. 120, fig. 43. 



Mamerthes aonia (Simplicia) Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amei'., Ilet., vol. 

 1, 1891, p. 447, pi. 36, figs. 17, 17a. 



Mamerthes lyeamhes (Simplicia) Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het., 

 vol. 1, 1891, p. 447, pi. 36, figs. IS, 18a. 



Mamerthes terrmnalls Schaus, new name for ■marglnalis {Rejccfarta) 

 Schaus, Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 9, 1912, p. 208. 



Mamerthes gangala Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, 

 1913, p. 20. 



MAMERTHES CROCEILINEA, new species. 



Male. — Palpi fuscous; the inside, and a line in front, whitish yellow. 

 Head, collar, and thorax fuscous brown with a few pale irrorations." 

 Abdomen dark gray v/ith pale segmental lines. Fore wings gray 

 suffused with fuscous; autemedial line fine, black, vertical and 

 straight, inwardly pale shaded, followed by a narrow black shade; 

 spots black finely edged with yellow, the orbicular slightly elongated, 

 the reniform narrow, slightly incurved; postmedial broad, straight, 

 almost vertical, yellow, widest on inner margin, edged with black; 

 subterminal fine, whitish gray, indicated by a broad black shade 

 from vein 7 to apex, and a fine black lunular line toward inner 

 margin; an interrupted terminal fuscous line. Hind wings fuscous 



1 Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 1858, p. 49. 



