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saccus. Eighth sternite with very short, stout, often widely divergent 

 furcations. 



16. Lutnacra brasiliensis (Heylaerts), new combination 



Figures 15, 79, 158, 175, 205, 258, 258a, 330, 373; Map 8 



Eumeta brasiliensis Heylaerts, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Compt.-Rend., vol. 28, p. 



XL, 1884.— Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., vol. ], p. 504, 1892. 

 Cryptoihelea brasiliensis (Heylaerts) Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, 



p. 188, 1929. 

 Cryptotheles [sic] brasiliensis (Heylaerts) Costa Lima, Insetos Brazil, vol. 5, p. 



193, 1945. 

 Clania brasiliensis (Heylaerts) Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1183, 



1936. 

 Platoecelicus viarona Schaus, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 345, 1905 (new 



synonymy). — Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 192, 1929. 



— Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1183, 1936. — Jones, Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 71, p. 122, 1945. 



Platoecelicus costaricensis Schaus, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 7, p. 634, 

 1911 (new synonymy). — Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 

 193, 1929.— Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1183, 1936. 



— Jones, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 71, p. 122, 1945. 



Male. — (Fig. 15.) Body vesture fuscous to dark fuscous. Antennae 

 (fig. 373) 30-34 segments. 



Wings same color as body. Primaries with discal scales (fig. 330) 

 oblanceolate, usually with acute, sometimes bidentate, apices; medial 

 vein divided for considerable distance in both wings. In hindwings 

 Sc + Ri and Rs connected near middle of cell by oblique crossvein, 

 approximately parallel to margin. Wing expanse 23-37 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 258.) Saccus comparatively longer, more 

 slender than in L. kiinckelii and L. haitiensis. 



Case. — (Fig. 79.) Approximately 30 mm. length, 8 mm. diameter, 

 undoubtedly attaining greater overall size; heavily covered with 

 short, thick twigs, longitudinally arranged in irregular fashion, few 

 small fragments of lichens attached; external silk covering absent. 



Types. — In the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, 

 Netherlands (lectotype, E. brasiliensis) ; United States National 

 Museum (P. costaricensis and P. marona). 



Type locality. — Brazil (£". hrasiiiensis);Sviix:n Vinos, Cachi, Costa 

 Rica (P. costaricensis); St. Laurent, French Guiana (P. marona.) 



Recorded hosts. — "Mosses," Costa Lima, 1945. 



Distribution. — (Map 8.) Occurring over a wide area from the 

 Central American ranges of Guatemala and Costa Rica, south along 

 the Andean system to Peru, and through the Guiana Coastal Plain 

 to the Brazilian Highland as far south as the state of Santa Catarina, 



Discussion. — The only fundamental difference between the type 

 specimens of Platoeceticus marona and P. costaricensis is one of size: 



