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Sect. Ill, Autennre of male ciliated ; mid tibiffi of male dilated with a groove 

 containiug tufts of flocculent yellow hair and fringed with large 

 curved scales. 



1486. Nephelistis vellerea. 



Taniocampa vellerea, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 237 (1894). 

 Conservula cedica, Drace, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 475, pi. 93. ff. 9, 10 



(1898). 



(S . Head and thorax brown, tlie scales tipped with grey ; abdo- 

 men grey-brown, the ventral surface darker, the anal tuft more 

 ochreous. Fore wing dark brown suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish grey, the postmedial area purplish grey ; faint traces of an 

 antemedial line, with the area before it rather greyer below the cell ; 

 the postmedial line pale, obliquely curved, not quite reaching costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, grey, excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a 



Fig. 48. — Kephelistis vellerea, (S . \. 



fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with brown, especially 

 towards apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, type f (S in Coll. Schaus, ( Trujillo) 1 S 

 type cedica, Orizaba {Bouchard) ; Panama, Chiriqui {Champion), 

 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Genus HYDRCECIODES, nov. 



Type, H. alala. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd short, oblique, hairy in front; frons witli rounded prominence 

 with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded, overhung by long 

 cilia ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the vertex of head with 

 large crest ; the tegulaj produced upwards into a slight ridge ; the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests; tibiic fringed witli rather long liair; abdomen 

 with large dorsal crest on 1st segment. Fore wing ratlier narrow; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the arcole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



