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*20145. Calidota rudis. (Plato LXVII. fig. 13.) 



Calidota rudis, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 613 (1911). 



6 . Head brown, the vertex, tegulse, and base of patagia orange, 

 the last with a small Mack spot near base, the rest <>!' thorax red- 

 brown ; abdomen orange with lateral series of small black spots, 

 the ventral surface brown irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown with a faint purplish tinge and some slight reddish 

 marks at base. Hind wing pale reddish brown, the inner area 

 ochreous to beyond middle; the underside with the basal half of 

 costal area ochreous. 



II, ib. Costa Rica, San Mateo {Schaus), type f c? in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. 48 millim. 



Genus STIDZ^IRAS. _, 



Type. 



Stidzseras, Hmpsn. A.M.N. H. (8) iv. p. 364 (1909) strigifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi smoothly scaled, upturned, the 2nd joint 

 not reaching vertex of head ; antenna; in both sexes with short branches 

 ending in a bristle; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from long before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 in female from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell ; male with the cell 

 filled by a semihyaline brand, veins 4, 5 stalked, the end of cell very oblique, 

 6 from well below upper angle, the areole large and broad and vein 7 curved. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper- 

 angle ; 8 from towards end of cell. 



In key differs from Atolmis and Phryganopteryx in the hind wing having 

 vein 8 from towards end of cell, the fore wing with vein 3 from long before angle 

 of cell, and from the former in veins 4, 5 being from the cell in the female. 



201G a. Stidzseras strigifera. 



Stidzseras strigifera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 467 (1905). 



cJ . Palpi and frons blackish ;' antennae brown; vertex of head 

 and tegulse orange, the latter with small black spots ; thorax and 

 legs brown ; pectus orange ; abdomen yellow, dorsal fuscous bands 



on three penultimate segments and spot on anal segment, some 

 small lateral spots. Fore wing brown with numerous fine pale 

 striae, the brand in cell semihyaline. Hind wing yellow, the apical 



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