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Pseudatteria flabellata. — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, 

 pt. 10, p. 16; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 22, pi. 2, 

 fig. 25; pi. 5, fig. 77. 



Male genitalia. — Uncus slender, scaphiform-spatulate, narrow at 

 base and moderately dilated apically; tip rotundate with a small, 

 setose papilla on ventral surface. Valva elongate, subrect angular 

 with external margin broadly rounded; costa sclerotized at base; 

 sacculus dilated at base, and narrowly extended along entire ventral 

 margin of valva. Aedeagus moderately long and thick, with a 

 narrow, spatulate, distal process, and with a spinulate area latero- 

 distally; cornutus elongate, rather thick, bifurcate on tip, at base 

 sUghtly dilated and laterally compressed; cuneus shaped as a long, 

 curved chain of small spines, somewhat clustered disorderly in basal 

 portion of chain, then uniordinally following one after another, and 

 multiordinal in distal portion. 



Female genitalia. — Sinus vaginalis infundibular with a moder- 

 ately broad lamella ante vaginalis. Antrum tubular, slightly elongate, 

 narrower than adjacent portion of cervix bursae; two lateral colliculi: 

 cervical portion of corpus bm-sae striated, more densely caudally, 

 and stronger sclerotized at right side; cestum long, rather narrow, 

 tapering cephalad, and surrounded by a weaker sclerotized, serrately 

 outlined area; corpus bursae long, moderately broad; signum elongate- 

 scaphoid with scobination stronger laterad. 



Types.— Lectotype of splendens, 9 (genitalia on slide 4425, JFGC), 

 Sarayacu, Napo Pastaza, Ecuador (C Buckley) ; BM. Holotype of 

 flabellata, 9 (genitaUa on slide 4423, JFGC), Ecuador, 1906 ("B."); 

 BM. 



Other specimens examined. — Colombia: 9, no exact locality 

 data; DEI. 9, Florida, Rio Putumayo, April 1932 (G. Klug) ; BM. 

 Ecuador: 9, no exact locality data (Meyrick collection); BM. 9 

 (genitalia on slide 66-Obr., 1963), no exact locality data (J. Arp); 

 USMN. d^ (genitaha on shde 6612), and 2 99, Sarayacu, Napo 

 Pastaza (C. Buckley); BM. d", same data; USNM. Peru: 9, 

 Yurimaguas, Loreto (Parish; Meyrick Collection); BM. 9, same 

 locality; DEI. 2 99, Chambireyacu near Yurimaguas, Rio Huallaga, 

 June-August 1885 (M. de Mathan); BM. cf, Iquitos (Yquitos), 

 Loreto, May 1932 (G. Klug); BM. 3 99, Rio Maranon, Loreto, 

 1913 (Meyrick Collection) ; BM. 9, Rio Napo, Loreto, 1913 (Meyi'ick 

 Collection) ; BM. cf , Pebas, Loreto, "fin X*'^^ & 1" Tr. 1880" (M. de 

 Mathan); BM. Brazil: 9, Sao Paulo de 01iven9a ("Sao Paulo de 

 Ohvina"), Amazonas; VMNH. 2 99 (genitaha of one, sUde 8681), 

 Alcobaga, Rio Tocantins, Para, April (A. H. Fassl) ; BM. 2 99, 

 same data; USNM. 



