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A. dichroa. Eighth sternite (fig. 223) furcations parallel to slightly 

 divergent; sides of base extended some distance laterally. 



Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — St. Jean, French Guiana. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 8.) Presently known from three widely 

 scattered localities: from the Atlantic Plain of Veracruz, Mexico, and 

 the Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela, to the Guiana Coastal Plain of 

 French Guiana. 



Discussion.- — After much more collecting has been done in the 

 group, this species may be reduced to a synonym of A. dichroa. For 

 the present, however, good genitalic differences separate these two 

 very closely related species. 



Material examined. — 3 cT cf : 



FRENCH GUIANA: St. Jean, Maroni, holotype, d^, USNM. 

 MEXICO: Rinconada, Veracruz, d^, USNM. 

 VENEZUELA(?): Merida, cf, USNM. 



38. Animula dichroa Herrich-Schaffer 



Figures 40, 181, 221, 278, 278a 



Animula dichroa Herrich-Schaffer, Samml. bekannt. Aussereur. Schmett., p. 59, 

 fig. 520, 1856.— Hey learts, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 25, p. 69, 1881; 

 Compt.-Rend., vol. 28, p. xcvii, 1884. — Kirby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, 

 p. 506, 1892.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 185, 1929.— 

 Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, voL 6, p. 1182, pL 169d, 1936.— Bet- 

 rem, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 95, pp. 332, 336, 1952. 



Male. — (Fig. 40.) Antennae with 34-37 segments. Primaries with 

 tornus absent, outer margin smoothly curved; veins largely devoid of 

 scales, R3 and 4 fused ; Ri and 2 fused, sometimes faintly separating just 

 before margin ; usually 9-veined. Wing expanse 26-28 mm. 



Male genitalia. — (Fig. 278.) Greatest width below middle; 

 saccus relatively short, less than }i length of main body of genitalia. 

 Eighth sternite (fig. 221) furcations slightly to strongly convergent. 



Case. — Not examined. Described by Heylaerts (1884c). 



Type.— In the British Museum of Natural History. 



Type locality. — Venezuela. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — No precise records for this species are known. It 

 has been recorded from Colombia and Venezuela. 



Material examined. — 3 cf^cf: 



Locality unknown, 2 cf cT, BM. 



COLOMBIA: Specific locality unknown, cf, RNH. 



