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vertex, pilose ; antenniB rather stout, serrated and finely ciliated, shaft scabrous ; 

 legs slender, smooth, rather long, spurs long, unequal. 



PATISSA LACTEALIS (Plate 184, Fig. 11.) 

 Metasia lactealis, Felder et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lop. iv. pi. 137, fig. 38 (1875). 

 Male and Female. White : foi^ewing with a transverse indistinct ochreous- 

 brown speckled antemedial narrow band, which is bent outward within the ceil, 

 followed by an inwardly-oblique similar discal, anda sub marginal band; some ochreous- 

 brown speckles also at end of the cell ; base of the costa edged with brown : 

 hindwing with a few ochreous-brown speckles at and above the anal angle. 

 Body, head, and maxillary palpi white ; labial palpi and forelegs above ochreous- 

 brown. 



Expanse t^ inch. 



Genus RAMILA. 



Ramlla, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 667. 



Forewing elongate, triangular ; costa nearly straight, apex pointed, slightly 

 falcate in the female, exterior margin oblique, straight, posterior margin slightly 

 convex towards the base ;, cell two-thirds the length ; first subcostal at nearly half 

 before end of the cell, very short, anastomosed to the costal, second at one eighth, 

 third from end of the cell, trifid ; discocellular deeply bent in the middle, radials 

 from slight angles near each end ; middle median at one-sixth before end of cell, 

 lower at two-fifths ; submedian nearly straight : hindwing short, somewhat quadrate ; 

 apex obtuse, exterior margin oblique, straight to lower median, anal angle truncate ; 

 cell one-third the length; subcostals on a footstalk a short distance beyond the cell, 

 upper slightly joined to costal near the base; discocellular outwardly oblique, bent 

 deeply before the middle, radial close to lower end ; middle median at one-fifth, 

 lower at one-third ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body moderately stout, 

 abdomen long; head prominent, large, conical in front ; labial palpi porrect, 

 projecting half beyond the head, laxly squamous, apex pointed ; maxillary 

 palpi long, extending to near end of labial, pilose at the tip ; legs moderately stout, 

 squamous, long, spurs slender ; antennae minutely serrated and pubescent in front. 



Tyjpe, R. marginella. 



RAMILA ACCIUSALIS (Plate 1S4, Fig. 5). 

 Mar(jaronia Acchisaiis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix p. 977 (1859). 



Pure white, silky. Both wings crossed by an ochreous-red curved slender ante- 

 medial line, an undulated postmedial line, and a black-pointed marginal line; ciKa with 

 abroad ochreous-red inner band traversed by a slender black line, this band ending at 

 the lower median vein, below which the cilia is pure white: forewing also with an. 



