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129. E-hescipha servia. 



Phalcena {Bomhyx) servia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. 

 pi. 321, fig. E. (1782). 

 Manaos, 26th December, 1874. 



This genus would perhaps be better placed among the 

 Pseudo-Deltoids, but in these extreme forms it is difficult 

 to decide. Walker's type is scarcely distinct. 



Dalcera, Herrich-S chaffer. 

 AcRAGA and Dalcera, Walker. 



130. Dalcera abrasa. 



Dalcera abrasa, Herr.-Sch. Auss. Schm. i. fig. 180. 

 Ilha das Araras, 8th June, 1874. 



St^etherinia, n. gen. 



Allied to Scopelodes, but the costa of primaries strongly 

 arched, the outer margin deeply excised below apex, the 

 inner margin nearly straight ; the subcostal vein four- 

 branched,* the first two branches running close to the 

 costa, the third and fourth forming a very long fork, upper 

 radial emitted from the upper extremity and lower radial 

 (as a fourth median branch) from the lower extremity 

 of the cell; discocellulars much less acutely angulated; 

 secondaries ample, cell much longer, lower discocellular 

 much longer ; palpi rather longer, quite as densely hairy 

 and strongly pectinated along their inferior margins; legs 

 considerably shorter. Type, S. semilutea. 



131. Staatherinia semilutea. 



Oxytenis semilutea, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. v. 

 p. 1942 (1866). 

 Boaventura, Kio Jutahi, 24th January, 1875. 



MiRESA, Walker. 



132. Miresa amazonica, n. sp. 



Wings and body above pale rufous-brown ; primaries 

 with a central Avhite-edged dark patch, lilacine-greyish in 

 the cell and beyond it, divided upon the discocellulars by 

 a transverse oblong ferruginous spot, the lower part of the 



* In Scop^^lo^es it is five-l ranched, and the first two branches arc 

 emitted a\ ^qi^m distance from t'lc costal margin. 



