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MiTLouis B. Front on the 
Hamalia (Hiibtier). 
Haemalea, Hiibiier, Zutr., ii, 11 (indescr.). 
Hamalia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett., 309 (1826 ?). 
Acratodes, Guenee, Spec. Gen. des Lep., x, 57 (1858). 
Lipomelia, Warren, pars, Nov. Zool., passim (1895, etc.) 
(nec Proc. Zool. Soc., 1893, jx 359). 
I include under this genus those Acidaliids with 
normally-shaped wings, in which the hindleg structure 
agrees with Acidalia (= Leptomeris, Meyr.), the $ 
leg being aborted, without spurs, the ^ with all spurs, 
but in which the areole is double, SC" arising from the 
cell, and anastomosing with SCh It will perhaps be prac¬ 
ticable to divide it, but the stalking of SC" and of the 
hindwing, which gives such reliable distinction between 
Acidalia and Ptychopoda, does not here seem very promis- 
ing; by far the most usually they are quite short-stalked 
or connate, very rarely separate or long-stalked, and it is 
just possible that their apparent congeners which show the 
long stalking are not really so close to them as they super¬ 
ficially appear. Two or three South American groups 
(? subgenera) which Warren catalogues as Lipomelia —the 
ms«-group, the «6?e/a-group, etc.—clearly belong here rather 
than to Lipomelia (suhusta, Warr.), which has the areole 
simple. 
30. Hamalia flexifascia (Front), nov. sp. 
(Plate XLVIll, fig. 21.) 
5 . 21 mm. Head, body and wings nearly concolorous, glossy 
light ochreous-brown. Forewing with a somewhat curved ferrugin¬ 
ous-brown median band, which is narrow at costa, widens a little, 
passing behind the upper part of cell, then bending basewards .so 
that its proximal edge cuts across lower angle of cell, here forming 
a somewhat darkened triangle; a sinuate, somewhat interrupted 
dark line margins the band proximally, while in the centre of the 
band there are some patches of somewhat brighter brown ; a dark 
subterminal line, following nearly the same course as in Hamalia 
adela (Dogn.),* but forming a stronger tooth on and a somewhat 
broader lobe in middle of wing, reaching very near the distal margin 
below ; a series of dark dashes on distal margin between the 
veins, but apparently .shorter and less strongly developed than in 
* Acidalia adela, Dogn., Le Nat., 1890, p. 38 ; Lep. Loja (2), 62, 
tab. vi, 20. 
