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much longer than the body; first and second joints stout. Piothorax with 

 aflat disk which widens hindward and has two transverse impressed lines 

 and on each side an intermediate curved oblique line ; fore border excavated ; 

 sides and hind border slightly rounded. Mesosternum and raetaslernum 

 with a much rounded lobe on each side. Cerci lanceolate, curved towards 

 each other; lower appendages short. I^egs long', slender; femora and 

 tibiae with minute spines. Fore wings rather broad, nearly fusiform, shorter 

 than the hind wings; space between the costa and the scapular vein broad, 

 obliquely traversed by veins which become ramose towards tlie costa; forks 

 of the branch of the externo- medial vein connected by an oblique vein ; 

 interno-medial vein twice forked, the fore branch of the second fork joining 

 the hind fork of the branch of the externo-medial vein ; large and minute 

 areolets irregular. Hind wings ample. 



I. Sagona sub punctata. 

 Mas. Testacea; caput albulmn, fnsco subconspersiim ; paljn subrosei ; 

 antenncB nigro alboque cine Ice ; prolhorax fusco compersus^fmcescente 

 bivitlatus ; pedes fusco spinod^ tibiis fiisco fascialis ; ala anlicoe 

 gultis (liscoidalibus 7iigricantibus^ lituris posticis fuscis; alec posiicce 

 diapha)i(S, plaga apicali testacea nigricante conspersa. 



Male. Testaceous. Head whitish, thinly and minutely speckled with 

 brown. Palpi with a rosy tinge. Antennae with alternate black and white 

 rings. Prothorax minutely speckled with brown ; a brownish stripe along 

 each lateral keel. Legs with brown spines ; tibiae with irregular brown 

 bands ; fore tarsi brown above. Fore wings shorter by one line and a half 

 than the hind wings, with a few blackish dots in the disk and with brown 

 marks along the hind border. Hind wings pellucid ; apical patch testa- 

 ceous, with blackish speckles; veins white. Length of the body \0\ lines; 

 expansion of the fore wings 38 lines. 

 a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus lOL TINZEDA. 



Mas et fcem. Corpus gracile, glabrum. Caput prothorace panllo 

 angustius, cornicido inter oculos brevi-conico porrecto. Oculi rotundi, 

 prominuli. Palporum articulus 5us subclavatus, 4o plus duplo lon^ior. 

 Antenncs longie, graciles. Piolhoracis discus planus, carinis lateralibus 

 subdeierminatis. Sternum sul)incisiHn. Cerci lanceolati, arcuaii. Ovi- 

 ductus arcuatus, abdosnini requilongns. Pedes longi, yraciles, femoribus 

 inermibiis, tibiis spinulosis. Alas anticae angustce, lanceolatte, alis posticis 

 paullo breviores. 



Male and female. Body slender, smooth, shining. Head a little 

 narrower than the proihoiax, with a short horizontal conical protuberance; 

 front erect. Eyes round, prominent. Fourth joint of the maxillary palpi 

 more than half the length of the third, less than half the length of the 

 fifth, which is subclavate. Antenna) slender, much lonj^er than the body ; 

 first and second joints stout. Prothorax with a flat disk which widens 

 hindward and is bordered by slightly defined lateral keels; fore border and 

 sides nearly straight; hind border rounded. Sternum very slightly notched. 

 Cerci and lower appendages of the male lanceolate, curved upward. 



