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not sjiiuose, longer tliau the respective first tarsal segment; first segment of 

 foretarsns about three times as long as broad, armed with three long spines, second 

 segment with one long ajiical spine ; midtarsns generally with two or three long 

 bristles indicating the comb ; first segment of mid- and hindtibia shorter than the 

 fonr others together; long apical spnr of hindtibia not half the length of the first 

 tarsal segment ; no spines on the upperside of the tarsi ; paronychium present, 

 the lobe long bnt very slender ; no pnlvillns. Sjiinulation of abdomen weak. 



Early stages not known. 



Had. Southern Neotropical Region. 



The genus is a dwarfed offshoot from Protopnrce, parallel with the series 

 Chluenogrammn — Ceratomia. It has acquired, like Ceratomia, tlie short and 

 strongly armed foretarsns, lost the pnlvillus, and preserved the unarmed tibiae. 

 The presence of some long bristles indicating the comb on the midtarsns proves 

 Seogene to have branched off independently of CJdaenogramvia, in which the comb 

 is entirely reduced to the ordinary spinulation, while in the modification of the 

 bristles of the pilifer into scales Seogene is even more advanced than Ceratomia, 

 which has the normal brush of bristles. It belongs to the Nannoparce branch, 

 forming a more specialised member of that series, which terminates in the 

 Australian Goenotes. 



Two species : 



Occiput white like the sides of pro- and mesonotum 86. N. dgnaeiis. 

 Occiput black like the sides of pro- and mesonotum 85. N. reeci. 



85. Neogene reevi. 



*IIijl(jiius reevi Druce, I.e. (1881) (Paraguay ;— coll. Druce) ; Kirby, Cut. Lep. Het. i. p. 695. d. 20 



(1892). 

 Sphhu harutfi Berg, An. Soc. C/eiit. Argent, xv. p. 151 (1883) (Buenos Ayres). 

 Gargantua baruta, Kirby, I.e. p. 693. n. 5 (1892) (Buenos Ayres). 



'SjihiiLC cossoides Rothschild, Niiv. Zooi.. i. p. 94. t. 7. f. 22 (1894) (Castro, Parana ;— Mus. Tring). 

 fiphhix reevi, Schaus, Ent. AVies vi. p. 143 (1895) { = barid>i=co.'i«oidcs). 



S ? . The disc of the hindwing more shaded witii brown in the ? than in c?, 

 ill the latter mostly the veins only brown. The width of the black border of the 

 hindwing is not constant. 



c?. Tenth abdominal tergite strongly compressed, narrow above, parallel in 

 dorsal view from the middle to the end, the tip obtuse ; tapering in side-view, with 

 the tip acute ; underside carinate ; lobe of sternite rounded, slightly spatnlate, 

 about as long as broad, sinuate. (Jlasper broad, widest beyond middle, dorsal 

 margin ratiier strongly dilated-ronnded ; harpe (PI. XXXVIII. f. 10) triangular, 

 produced ventro-distally, obli(iuely rounded distal margin dentate. Penis-sheath 

 witli a long, conical, curved, horizontal tooth at end. 



?. Eighth abdominal tergite rounded-truncate at end, not sinuate; sternite 

 triangular, separated laterally from the tergite by the pleural membrane ; vaginal 

 cavity transverse, witli a short, wrinkled, semi-membranaceous ridge in front, 

 covered with scales. 



Hab. Argentina ; Paraguay ; Parana, Brazil. 



In the Tring Museum 9 c?c?, 3 ? ? from : Castro, Parana, Nov. Dec. (E. D. 

 Jones) ; La Gama, Argentina, Nov. Dec. ; Cordoba (Berg). 



