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Genus PANILLA. 



Male: forewing short, moderately broad and triangular; cell less than half the 

 length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fourth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; discocellular 

 slender, bent near each end, concave in the middle, radials from the angles ; middle 

 median from near end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian 

 much curved from the base : hindwing ample, broad, exterior margin very convex ; 

 two subcostals from beyond end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, radial from 

 below the middle ; two upper medians from beyond end of the cell, lower at one- 

 third before the end ; submedian and internal vein curved. Body slender, abdomen 

 slightly tufted at apex ; palpi very laxly pilose beneath to the tip ; antennce minutely 

 pectinated ; legs rather short, femora and tibias very laxly clothed with long silky 

 hairs, spurs long. 



TyTpe, P. dispila. 



PANILLA DISPILA (Plate 156, Fig. 12, ? ). 



Homoptera dispila, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 890 (1865),^. 

 Ilomoptera divisistriga, Walker, MS. Brit. Miis. Coll. 



Male and female ochreous-brown : forewing with a transverse equidistant basal, 

 subbasal, and a medial zigzag pale-bordered black line, a curved discal denticulated 

 line, followed by a pale sinuous submarginal line, and a marginal row of short black 

 linear spots ; a small black orbicular spot, a large black triangular spot beyond the 

 middle of the discal Hne, and a smaller spot opposite it on the exterior margin ; some 

 black streaks along the costal edge : hindwing with a transverse antemedial and a 

 recurved postmedial pale-bordered black denticulated line, a small spot at end of the 

 cell, and a marginal row of black linear spots. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus GIRPA. 

 Girpa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1849 (1858). 



Male : forewing rather short, arched towards end, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 obhque, posterior angle convex ; cell extending to two-fifths the length ; first sub- 

 costal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third 

 at one-third from base of second, fourth at three-fourths from base of third ; fifth 

 from end of the cell and slightly touching second at one-third below base of the third ; 

 discocellular concave, radials from upper and lower end ; middle median from angle 

 close to end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian much curved 

 from the base: hindwing short, very broad, quadrate, the apex almost angular, 

 exterior margin convexly angular in the middle, abdominal margin short ; cell short, 

 less than one-third the length ; two siibcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 



