( 185 ) 



cf. Tlie harjie is scavcel}' as much raised above the plane of the clasper as 

 ill gaiiiiascus ; the snbiuesial ridge is especially low. The rod-like carina of the 

 penis-sheath is apically rather prominent; there is apparently no internal cariniform 

 thickening of the penis-sheath. The tenth steruite is shaped as in ti(jrina, the 

 tergite as slender as in palmeri. 



llab. Veneznela ; Colombia : Ecuador ; Pern ; Bolivia. 



In the Tring Museum S S i , '2 ?? from: Merida, Venezuela (Briceno) ; 

 Bogota (town), at electric light, December (Biirger) ; Santo Domingo, Carabaya, 

 S.B. Peru, ijOni) ft., vi. xi., dry and wet seasons (Ockenden). 



In coll. Stauilinger also from Cliaco, Bolivia, 2000 30ii0 ra. (Garlepp). 



140. Amplypterus donysa. 



*Aiubulyx donysa Druce, Ann. Mmj. N. II. (C). iv. p. 78 (18811) (Jalapa) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. llel. 

 i. p. 67fi. D. 3.5 (18'J2) ; Druce, in Biol. Cenli: Amer., Lep. Bet. Suppl. p. 309. t. 66. f. 7 (189G) 

 (Jalapa; Orizaba; Guatemala; Chiriqui). 



6 ?. The (S is much more strongly marked than the ?, in which the undulated 

 and deutated lines of the fore wing are only vestigial or even absent. The most 

 distal line is proximally convex between the veins down to R^, while from R^ to 

 M- the internervular portions are proximally concave ; the same is the case in the 

 two preceding species, wiiere the lines are, however, very faint as a rule. Individually 

 variable. 



d. Sexual armature similar to that of gannasc us ; penis-sheath simply truncate 

 at the end, not more strongly chitinised dorsally than laterally and ventrally, no 

 kind of dorsal process or carina. Tenth sternite broader basally than in yunnasciis, 

 more evenly rounded apically, with just a trace of a mesial sinus, more extended 

 spiny than in the other species of Amplypterus. 



?. Vaginal plate (PI. XV. f. 10) rather more strongly chitinised than in 

 yannascus, distally rounded. 



Early stages nut known. 



Hub. Mexico to Panama. 



In the Tring Museum 8 c?cJ, 3 ?¥ from: Orizaba; Jalapa; f'oatepec ; 

 Teocelo ; Rosery Mines, Honduras ; Chiriqui. 



XLVI. ORECTA gen. nov.— Typus : hjcidas. 



An,huli/:c, Boisduval (nun Walker, 185G), Sjier. Gen. Lep. IIH. i. p. I'll (1875). 

 I'liilampebis, Burmeister (nan Han-is, 18.39), Descr. Rep. Argent, v. p. .320 (187;')). 



i ? . Tongue not reaching beyond the posterior coxae, rather weak, ciliae of 

 fringe not sc]iarate. Genal jirocess subglobose, not reaching to tip of pilifer. 

 Head small, frons vertical, a mesial crest, develojiing to a transverse crest between 

 antennae. Eyelashes present. Palpus small, truncate, second segment broadest 

 at end, anterior angle jirojecting forward (side-view), terminal surface at an obtuse 

 angle with the frons. Antenna as long as (J), or shorter than ( ? ), R^ of forewing ; 

 eud-segment short, with a brush of long scales (nearly as in Amplypterus); segments 

 of 9 with the basal ciliae very feebly prolonged. Abdomen without spinules on the 

 •tcrnites, liut the under scales of the tergites nearly all spiniform, no broad scales on 

 thetcrgites. Legs shorterthan in Amplypterus and l'rot<tmhaUjx ; tibiae notspinose. 



