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projecting beyond face ; terminal joint invisible ; tongue present ; 

 legs stout and strong ; abdomen with dark anal tuft, and with a 

 flock of black hairs at the base of the hind femora. Neuration : 

 Fore wing with the costal and first subcostal branch very long ; 

 second, third, and fourth on a common stem rising from the upper 

 angle of cell ; second and third short and very oblique ; upper 

 radial curved at its base, also fi-oni the angle of the cell ; first 

 median branch at four-fifths ; second and third from lower angle 

 of cell; lower radial just above them, submedian strongly forked 

 at base. Hind wing : Costal suddenly bent in middle towards the 

 subcostal, then curving away again, with two short branches ; sub- 

 costal simple ; first median branch at two-thirds ; second, third, 

 and radial, one above the other near the lower angle of cell. 



68. Crocidocnemis pellucida, n. s. 

 Fore wing sand-coloured, dusted with brownish along the costa 

 and hind margin, and in the basal area with three short semi- 

 hyaline transverse fascite, which do not reach the costa, and widen 

 out and more or less unite along the inner margin ; orbicular 

 stigma before the centre, flattened between the subcostal and 

 median veins, with curved darker lateral edges ; beneath it and 

 contiguous just such another spot between the median and sub- 

 median, these both preceded and followed by a narrowish hyaline 

 space ; reniform stigma very broad, trapezoidal, its edges darker, 

 and with a broader hyaline fascia beyond it and below it, traversed 

 by one or two slender brown lines ; towards the inner margin is a 

 short brown line, and beyond it a brownish blotch ; four darker 

 spots on the costa before the apex. Hind wing with the basal half 

 more or less hj'aline, with a brown central spot, two sinuous brown 

 lines, and a sandy brown liiud margin. Palpi white beneath, 

 brownish above ; thorax and abdomen mixed sandy and whitish ; 

 anal tuft dark. Under side of wings glossy ochreous, the markings 

 faintly visible. Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 



One ^ . Pupunha, E. Jurua, Nov. 1st, 1874. 



Related to SiDnea, but distinguished by its larger size, 

 rounded costa and apex, and by the tuft of hairs attached 

 to the base of hind femora. 



69. Hynienia perspectalis. 



Pyralis pcrspectidis, Hiib., Exot. Schm., Pyral., fig. 



101. 

 Zinckcnia perspectalis, Ld., W. E. M., vii., p. 437. 



One J . Miriti, E. Madeira, May 21st, 1874. 



