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indistinct sinuous postmedial line or series of points on the veins 

 and some terminal points. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing uniform ochreous white. New Guinea. 



Uah. Mexico, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 2 $, Misantla (2ViyiZ?o), 1 §, 

 Coatepec (Brooks), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Cuba, Matangas 

 (Schaus), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), I <S , 2 $ ; 

 W. China, Moupin (Kricheldorf), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 

 1 S; BoiinxY (Lelth), 1 c? ; Canaea (Ward), 2 $; Ceylon (Wen- 

 ham, Templeton, MacTciuood), 'd S , 2 $ , type and type plagifera ; 

 Singapore (JSk//«/), 1 §; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 $; Java 

 (Horsfield), 1^,2 5; New Guinea; Queensland, Brisbane (Tur- 

 ner), 1 $ ; N. S. Wales, Moreton Bay (Biggies), 1 c? type specta- 

 hilis, Sydney (Raynor), 1 cJ ; Tahiti (J". J. Walker), 1 5 ; Maruuesas, 

 Nuka-Hiva (J. J. Walker), 1 d . ^.rp. 42-68 millim. 



Larva. Dull violet-brown ; a few scattered grey points ; dorsal 

 stripe grey formed of triangular patches ; a j)ale olivaceous sub- 

 lateral stripe from 4th somite ; head and legs violet-grey, the 

 former small ; 1 1th somite produced to a dorsal hump ; hair fine. 

 Food-plant, Emilia. 



Genus CHABTTATA. „ 



Type. 



Chahuata, Wlk. xiv. 1034 (1857) ampla. 



Tricholita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 215 (1875) siynata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 head and thorax clothed with rough hair and scales, the prothorax with 

 triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibite clothed with 

 rough hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base and slight lateral fringes of 

 hair. Fore wing with veins .3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae bipectinate in both sexes; the branches short 

 in female. 



A. Fore wing bright rufous thickly irrorated with white iwfata. 



B. Fore wing dull reddish brown without white irroration . signatu.. 

 C Fore wing dull brown irrurated with grey. 



a. Fore wing with the lines fairly distinct, a series of 



wliite points at base of cilia fistula. 



b. Fore wing with the lines almost obsolete, no white 



points at base of cilia nmfina. 



D. Fore wing ochreous suffused with brown inconsi)kua. 



1495. Chahuata notata. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 8.) 



Tricholita notata, Streck. Lep. Khop. & Het. Suppl. i. p. 9 (1898) ; Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 168. 

 Triclwlita si/rissa, Streck. Lep. B-hop. & Ilet. ii. p. 6 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 



Lep. N. Am. p. 168. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with wliite ; 

 antennae ochreous ; abdomen brownish rufous, the ventral tuft 

 purplish red, the hair tipped with white ; anal tuft whitish at 



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