ON THE SYNTOMID MOTHS OF SOUTHERN VENEZUELA 

 COLLECTED IN 1898-1900. 



By Edward A. Klaoes, 



Of Craftoii, PennsiiJrnnia. 



Having' recently studied the Syntoniid.v renuiinino- in my collections 

 brouo-ht from Venezuela, as well as some received later, and finding a 

 comparatively large percentage new to science, it was deemed advisa- 

 ble to undertake a thorough study of the species. 



As the U. S. National Museum acquired a complete representation of 

 the moths taken l)v me in Venezuela after the first year's collecting"/' 

 arrangements were made with its officials whereby I have been ena- 

 bled to undertake the study of almost all the accessible species of 

 Syntomida^'' taken l)v me during my entire tri[) in Venezuela. The 

 present paper is therefore based primarily upon specimens in the 

 U. S. National Museum and, solely, upon species collected by the 

 author. The arrangement followed is in accordance with that in 

 Hampson's admirable work on the farmily.' with such minor changes 

 as are warranted by the present study and the writer's knowdedge of 

 their habits. 



PSEUDOSPHEX AURIFERA, new species. ' 



FeiiKiJe. — Head, and thorax l)eneath, dark brown: atitemue fulvous 

 with dilated portion purple; two outer joints of palpi, the frons. and 

 head l)ehind eyes with some grey hair; neck, tegula'. and thorax above, 

 clothed with golden hair; legs fulvous, the front pair dark; abdomen 



" The Tring INIuseum received the specimens taken during the first year in the field. 



'' tSonie of the species taken tlie first year were not found in duplicate, and socli of 

 tliem as were not taken later are necessarily omitted. Of the species taken after the 

 first year two are not inchided because it was impossible to study the venation with- 

 out some injm-y to the specimens, which, being unicjues, it would be unadvisable to 

 mar. At least two other species were not fpund in time to l)e studied. 



''Catalogue of the Syntomid;ie in the Collection of the British Museum, by Sir 

 (leorge F. Hampson, Bart 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIX— No. 1434. 



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