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wings is dark brown, sprinkled with metallic scales, and a 

 more or less complete marginal row of metallic dots. 



The genera Pedallocles, Gyrocheilus, Oxeoschistus, Lasio- 

 pJiila, Doidalma, and Pronophila, contain large and hand- 

 some insects, measuring two or three inches in expanse, and 

 chiefly confined to the mountainous districts of Western 

 America. 



Pedaliodes may be distinguished from Lymanopoda by 

 the deniated hind wings, and from Sieroma by their entire 

 inner margin. Many species resemble these genera in 

 markings ; others are striped or banded with white and 

 fulvous. 



Gyrocheilus Pairohas is a Mexican species, with smooth 

 eyes; the other allied genera have them hairy. It is two 

 and a quarter inches across; brown; the fore wings with 

 four white dots, surrounded with black below; and the hind 

 wings with a red marginal band. 



Oxeoschisius has strongly dentaled hind wings; the species 

 are fulvous beneath, with pale transverse lines more or less 

 conspicuous ; sonie are brown above, with a broad sub- 

 marginal fulvous band enclosing black spots; another is 

 dark brown, with a very large pale blue spot, dentated 

 externally, on the outer half of the hind wings. 



Lasiophila and Dcedalma are much deniated, the hind 

 wings oiten with a short tail. The former is reddish above; 

 the fore wings brown towards the margins, spotted with 

 red, and the hind wings either similar, or red, bordered 

 with brown, and with a row of brown spots on the outside of 

 the red portion. Dcedalma is usually brown above, sometimes 

 with submarginal pale spots; the under side of the hind 

 wings is marbled with greenish or reddish, with traces of a 

 central row of eyes. 



The species of true Pronophila resemble each other 

 closely. They are all large dark-brown insects, occasionally 

 with some white spots near the tip of the fore wings, above 

 as well as below. On the under side they have three or four 

 conspicuous black eyes, with blue pupils on the fore wings, 

 and sometimes a row of smaller ones on the hind wings. 



The species of Tuygetis vary from two to four inches in 

 diameter, and are lountl in most parts of Central and South 

 America. They are brown above, occasionally with fulvous 



