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costa ; subtorminal Hue represented by a series of white undula- 

 tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish 

 towards base and inner margin ; the underside yellowish white, 

 the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), 1 c? type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Eap. 3-i millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very short branches, the apex 

 ciliated ; mid tibioa dilated, fringed with very long hair and with 

 expansible tuft of long yellow hair ; underside of both wings mostly 

 clothed with bright ochreousandroconia and hair to beyond middle. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ... clauda. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely curved. 



a. Head and tegula; rufous furva. 



b. Head and tegulie purplish brown differens. 



1483. Nephelistis clauda. 



Conservula clauda, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, ii. p. 475. 

 TcBniocompa veUerca, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 484 (part.), ueo 



Schaus. 



Head and thorax dark brown tinged with grey ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen dark grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 with purplish grey and irrorated with whitish ; traces of a waved 

 whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved autemedial line ; the medial area suffused with 

 black-brown from submedian nervure to vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former round ; post- 

 medial line grey slightly defined by blackish on inner side, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and excurved at median 



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Fig. 47. — Nephelistis clauda, (S . \. 



nervules ; subterminal line represented by a very obscure series of 

 whitish marks on diffused blackish patches, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine wliitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish with 

 dark line at base. The underside of both wings in malo clothed 

 with bright ochreous hair and androcouia to beyond middle except 

 costal area ; hind wing with black discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial lino, in female whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the 

 disk whiter. 



Hah. Mexico, .Talapa (Tnijillo), 2 J , 3 $ , Godman-Salviu Coll. 

 Ex2). 30 millim. Typo t in Coll. Schaus. 



