in the Basin of the Amazons, 247 



fore wing dull fuscous ; of hind wing whitish ; both without 

 markings. Expanse of wings, 27 mm. 



28. Egnasia dorcanderalis. 



Megatomis dorcanderalis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. B. M., 

 xix., 883. 



One 2 . E. Purus, Sept. 30th, 1874. 

 Walker's type of the species is a 5" , with the antennae 

 pectinated ; the 2 has them crenulated. 



29. Egnasia (?) alhipunctata, n. s. 



Fore wing pinky brown, with faint traces of a curved dark brown 

 line before the middle, immediately followed by a small white 

 orbicular stigma ; a much serrated blackish line starts from the 

 middle of the costa, is much bent outwards, and forms three sides 

 of a square, enclosing the reniform stigma, which is large yellowish, 

 and finally terminates in the middle of the inner margua ; the space 

 between this elbow and the reniform stigma filled up with dark 

 brown ; submarginal line hardly perceptible ; a row of black dots 

 before the fringes. Hind wing with traces of two darker bands, 

 and the row of submarginal spots. Under side dull pinkish fuscous ; 

 without markings. Abdomen and legs concolorous. Head, (fee, 

 absent. Expanse of wings, 20 mm. 



One ? . E. Manhes, April 29th, 1874. 

 In the absence of the head, with all its organs, this 

 insect can only provisionally be referred to Egnasia. 



Ehododactyla, n. g. 

 Fore wings falcate, deeply concave below the apex, and with a 

 prominent projection above the anal angle, in which the third 

 median branch terminates. Hind wings square-cut with an 

 angulation in the hind margin towards the inner angle. Forehead 

 with projecting tufts of scales ; antennae minutely cihated beneath ; 

 palpi drooping ; second joint densely fringed and concealing the 

 thu-d. Femora and tibiae of legs pilose. Neuration : Fore wing 

 with a strongly-marked fold between the submedian and first 

 median branch; second and third median branches and lower 

 radial from the lower end of the disco-cellular ; upper radial from 

 the top angle of the cell ; second, third, and fourth subcostal 

 branches stalked, the second, very short, out of the third just before 

 the apex. Hind wing : first median branch at two-thirds ; second 



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