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with apical half enlarged and divided; each half bearing a dense, 

 elongate cluster of more than 50 short spinules. 



Type. — Holotype, cf ; in the British Museum (Natural History). 



Type-locality. — San Antonio, Colombia, 5800 feet. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distribution (map 4). — Presently known only from the type- 

 locahty which is located in the Magdalena basin of Colombia. 



Material examined. — One male. 



SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia: San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5800 feet, 1 cf , 

 Nov. (USNM). 



Bondia Newman 



Bondia Newman, 1856, Trans. Ent. Soc. London (new series), vol. 3 [1854-1856], 

 p 289.— Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 35, pt. 1, 

 p. 143. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check List of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, p. 180.— Meyrick, 1922, Gen. Insect., fasc. 179, pp. 2, 3.— 

 Forbes, 1923, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 68, p. 515; 1928, in 

 Leonard, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 101, p. 570.— Fletcher, 1929, 

 Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. series, vol. 11, p. 33.— McDunnough, 1939, 

 Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, no. 1, p. 61.— Diakonoff, 1954, Verhandl. 

 Konink. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuur., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 116, 119. 



Type-species. — Bondia nigella Newman, 1856, monobasic. 



Adult. — Relatively small, slender bodied moths; wing expanse 

 approximately 11-20 mm. 



Head (figs. 44-53) : Antennae sexually dimorphic; male with scales 

 restricted mainly to dorsal and lateral surfaces of shaft; ventral surface 

 densely covered with fine, elongate cilia; length of cilia approximately 

 2-3 X diameter of shaft; female antennae almost completely covered 

 with scales; ciHa minute, visible only under high magnification and 

 approximately 0.5 X diameter of shaft. Labial palpi variable; sexually 

 dimorphic in some species, not in others; relatively short and sub- 

 ascending in male, scales roughened and somewhat tufted beneath on 

 second segment; female palpi either elongate and porrect with second 

 segment mostly smooth beneath and roughened above, or short and 

 subascending with scahng on second segment similar to that of male; 

 length of second segment in female varying from 1 to 2 X the length 

 of comparable segment in male. 



Thorax: Wings (figs. 35-37) relatively slender in most species; 

 termen strongly oblique. Primaries with all veins separate; vein 10 

 arising from cell approximately midway between 1 1 and 9 ; 1 1 arising 

 near outer thu-d of cell; 2 strongly curved, originating close to 3 near 

 lower angle. Secondaries with discal cell extending half way to termen; 

 veins 5 and 6 absent, the latter sometimes represented by a short 

 vestige at termination of cell; 3 and 4 separate in most species, some- 

 times stalked about one-third the length of 3; rarely connate; cubital 

 pecten present in some species, greatly reduced and restricted to 



