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X. Description of a new genus of Pihopalocera allied to 

 Anteros, Hew. By George T. Baker, F.E.S. 



[Read March 2nd, 1887.] 



Plate IX. 



OlJROCNEMIS, 11. g. 



Head very prominent, square, with collar. Palpi deflexed. Body 

 robust. The three pairs of legs stout, with long hairy tufts, the 

 second pair having very long tarsal tufts. Neuration as iisual, 

 viz., costal vein short, extending to not over a third of the costa ; 

 subcostal vein quadriramose, the first two branches emitted before 

 the end of the cell, the last two making a long fork to the costa 

 just in front of apex ; upper radial emitted from anterior angle of 

 cell, lower radial from centre of cell ; median and posterior veins 

 normal. Hind wings with quite normal neuration. Fore wings 

 subfalcate ; hind wings deeply excavated between the first median 

 branch and submedian vein, with fringe lengthened into a caudal 

 appendage at the extremity of the latter. 



I have two female specimens of this insect from Goya, 

 Corrientes, South America, and at first thought it was 

 altogether new ; but, with the kind assistance of Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, I now find it to have been placed by 

 Hewitson in the Erycinid genus Anteros, and named 

 axiochus. Though somewhat nearly allied to Anteros, 

 the structure and clothing of the palpi preclude it being 

 placed in that genus, and necessitate the formation of a 

 new one. 



Hitherto the only sex that appears to have been known 

 in this country was the male, from a poor specimen of 

 which Hewitson took his description ; and, as this differs 

 somewhat from my females, it may be as well to describe 

 them in detail. 



Ourocnemis axiochus, Hew. (PI. IX., figs. 1 & 2). 

 entire uppei arf: ce of all the wings is sooty black, with a 

 very faint bluish lustre over the basal half. Fringes of same 

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