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wings: marginal space a little darker; Cringe; long, lull. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at tlie tips; disral dot black, formed of elevated scales; exterior 

 border slightly convex, ratlier oblique. Lenglli of tlie l)od\-, (i lines; of the 

 wings, 16 lines, a. Georgia." 



P8AI\IiMA'rODES Guenee. Plate 3. tig. 4. 



EuloUa (in part) Ivederer, Verb. Zool. Bot. Vereiiis. Wien, :i7, ItT).'). 

 I'sammatodcs Gufii., Pbnl., ii, 107, lHo7. 



Male antenna> simi)le, densely ciliated ; in the female simple. Head and 

 palpi much as m Phasiane ; palpi short and stout, as in Fkanane, hut still 

 shorter, the second joint being broad at ti|), and third joint small, short, and 

 depressed. Fore wings mucli as in P/ias/ane, but tht> costa is not (piite so 

 straight; the apex is more rounded, less produced, and the outer edge is more 

 convex. The hind wings are much as in Phasiane, being somewhat square, 

 a little angulated at the apex and again on the tirst median venule. The 

 venation differs from that of Phasiane in the subcostal cell being longer, in 

 the costal vein nearly touching but not uniting with the subcostal. The two 

 subcostal venules arise as in Phasiane, but are shorter and directed at a greater 

 angle to the costa; the lower discal venule is more oblique and curved than 

 in Phasiane, and the disposition of the two discal veins is more like Semi- 

 othisa than Phasiane. The form of the abdomen, which is broad at the tip, 

 is as in Phasiane (male legs wanting, but Guene'e states that the hind legs 

 are not swollen). Female legs as in Phasiane. 



The above description apphes to our single species, which belongs to 

 Guende's second section of the genus. This genus was founded by him on 

 six species: one from Hayti, one from Catalonia, two from Syria, and one 

 from Brazil, besides P. eremiata. Gnene'e remarks that the male antennae 

 are almost always furnished with long branches, while the legs are not 

 swollen. 



It is very near Phasiane, and is distinguished from it by the less i)ro- 

 duced fore wings, the rather squarer hind wings, and the venation. The 

 markings are much as in Phasiane, it having three jKirallel lines, the outer a 

 little sinuous ; but it differs in having two well-marked parallel lines on the 

 hind wings. The larva is unknown. 



