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border ; middle part, except along the costa, dark cinereous; hind- 

 wings blackish-cinereous. 



Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



Brazil. 



ISIusarna claudens. 

 Fcem. — Nigricans, subtus fulva, antennis fuscis, fulvo-annulatis, 

 alis anticis ferrugineo-fnscis latis vix lontjis, fasciis duabus 

 incompletis e strigis auratis, posticis nigricante cinereis. 

 Female. — Blackish, tawny beneath : antennae brown, with tawny 

 wings, as long as the body ; fore-wings ferruginous brown, broad, 

 hardly long, more convex along the costa than in the preceding 

 species, moderately oblique along the exterior border, with two 

 slight incomplete bands, composed of short gilded streaks, the one 

 exterior, the other sub-apical ; hind-wings blackish-cinereous. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 

 Brazil. 



Fam. PSYCHOMID^. 

 Genus CuRGiA, n, g. 

 Fcem. — Corpus nudum : palpi longi, arcuati, decumbentes ; arti- 

 ticulus 1 us brevis ; 2us longus, apice unispinosus ; 3us 2o bre- 

 vior ; 4us 3i dimidio non longior : antennae setaceae, com- 

 pactae, corpore paullo longiores : tibiae posteriores calcaribus 

 duobus longis apicalibus ; tibiae mediae calcare uno medio; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus mediis ; alae anticae angustae. 



Female. — Body, legs and wings bare : palpi long, curved, de- 

 cumbent, much longer than the breadth of the head; 1st joint 

 short ; 2nd long, with a spine at its tip ; 3rd much shorter than 

 the 2nd ; 4th about half the length of the 3rd : antennae setaceous, 

 a little longer than the body ; sutures of the joints hardly visible : 

 posterior tibiae with two long apical spurs ; middle tibiae with one 

 middle spur; hind tibiae with two middle spurs: fore-wings nar- 

 row; six apical veins; 1st and 2nd forks of one vein, which is a 

 fork of the radial vein ; 3rd and 4th forks of one vein, which, and 

 the 5th, are forks of a discal vein ; Gth simple. 



Cursici braconoides. 

 Fcem. — Luteo-rufa, palpis, antennis, tibiis tarsisque nigris, alis 

 nigricantibus anticis albido novem-maculatis et bifasciatis. 



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