A.PHYLE. — EPIMOLIS. 25 



*1'J15 d. Aphyle steinbachi. (Plate XL I II. fig. 11.) 

 Nmtos steinbachi, Roths. A. M.N. H. (8) iv. p. 229 (1909). 

 $. Head and tegulse orange-yellow; antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown with darker 

 brown streak's on the veins and in discal and sul>median folds. 

 Hind wing grey-brown. 



Rab. Bolivia, Buenavista (Steinbach), type t ? in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus EPIMOLIS. 



Type. 



Epimolis, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 286 (1913) zatrephica. 



Proboscis aborted and small ; palpi upturned to vertex of head ; frons 

 smooth ; antennae of female ciliated ; tibia? with the spurs short ; abdomen 

 dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 near angle ; 

 G from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 

 6, 7 coincident and 8 on a long stalk with them. 



In key differs from Araeomolis in the hind wing having veins 6, 7 coincident, 

 and from Zievius in the palpi reaching to vertex of head and the termen of fore 

 wing not being angled. 



*121o e. Epimolis zatrephica. 



Epimolis zatrephica, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 286 (1913). 

 $ . Head yellow above, crimson in front, the palpi yellow in 

 front ; tegulse yellow, thorax purplish, the patagia yellow at base 

 and with crimson streak above ; fore and mid tibiae and tarsi yellow 

 with some crimson markings ; hind legs white ; abdomen crimson, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing pink with a -purplish tinge 

 to middle of eosta and termen above torn us ; the costal area yellow 



Fig. 8. — Epimolis zatrephica, $. \. 



narrowing to a streak at middle ; a small yellow spot below middle 

 of vein 1; apical area yellow; a curved pinkish patch shaded witli 

 oreyand with the veins on it streaked with crimson and with yellow 

 spot on its upper part from eosta before apex to vein •>, with a 

 series of slight grey spots in the interspaces from it to vein 2 and 

 a subterminal series. Hind wing crimson, the apical part of eosta 

 and termen narrowly yellow with the crimson shading into it. 



Sab. Mexlco, Misantla (Midler). Exp. dO millim. This 

 species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



