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sedoeagus though large has a simple vesica and only a couple 

 of largish cornuti. 



Endrosa aiirita, Esp. ' 



The cingula is almost normal in the sternite section and has 

 a well-formed small saccus ; it (the cingula) is more or less 

 jointed (perhaps folded and angled would better describe it) 

 at the tergite and continued as the cingula up to the rear 

 of the dorsum of the tegumen, which is large both dorsally and 

 laterally, the lateral plates being largish and triangular ; the 

 dorsum is in the shape of a broad heavy beak ; the harpagones 

 are of an irregular oblong shape, with a basal arm at the lower 

 margin cleft almost to the cingula. and curved up around the 

 harpago to the upper fore apex, which is very hair)', but the 

 encircling arm is very much less so. The eedoeagus lies in a 

 trough, with a folded tube on each side, each of which ter- 

 minates in a long horn, the vesica being roughly toothed, the 

 end of the penis sheath being a hollowed short plate with a 

 couple of short cornuti. 



Euprepia striata, L., 



is placed among the Arctiinae on account of the presence 

 of ocelli, the genitalia would also confirm this on the whole ; 

 the two subfamilies must, however, have very intimate and 

 close relations. 



In striata the cingula shows affinity with the Lithosiinae as 

 it is sectioned into sternite and tergite (in the Arctiinae 

 generally the cingula has advanced to form a more or less 

 continuous collar), but it is connected with the harpagones 

 and not unattached; the harpagones consist of two broad 

 straightish arms terminating abruptly, the front edge being 

 furnished with a series of short sharp teeth, the uppermost and 

 lowermost being considerably larger than the others, at the 

 rear of the clasps (harpagones) two bluntly wedge-shaped 

 processes arise sharply dentate on their upper margin, these 

 form part of the trough wherein lies the sedoeagus, which has 

 a formidably spined vesica; the tegumen is smallish (an 

 Arctiine character), and is attached to the girdle, which 

 broadens out in the tergite to a simple collar, to which the 

 uncal projection of the tegumen is connected. If we consider 



