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Genus OGDOCONTA. 



Type. 

 Ogdoconta, Butl. A. M.N. H. (6) vii. p. 462 (1891) cincnuht. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax with long oblique flattened crest, the meta- 

 thorax with spreading crest; tibia} moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on 1st two segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, 

 the rermen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with oblique white baud from apex to inner 



margin beyond middle musculo,. 



B. Fore wing without oblique white band from apex to inner 



margin. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards 



below costa, then oblique and nearly straight. 

 it 1 . Fore wing with distinct whitish annulus to reniform 

 constricted at middle. 

 « 2 . Fore wing with the medial area black-brown and 

 much darker than the postmedial area, the post- 

 medial line obsolescent , cameola. 



fr. Fore wing with the medial area red-brown, the 

 postmedial area pinkish, the postmedial line 



distinct : cinereola. 



b l . Fore wing with the reniform an ill-defined pale 



lunule morcno. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved at middle 



and oblique below vein 4. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on 



median nervure to below orbicular tacna. 



b l . Fore wing with the reniform constricted at middle, 



but not angled inwards on median nervure Klacina. 



e\ Fore wing with the reniform elliptical cyrniographa. 



*4406. Ogdoconta muscula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 13.) 

 Plagiomimicus musculus, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 144 (1898). 



c? . Head and thorax grey irrorated with dark brown ; abdomen 

 giey mixed with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey- 

 white tinged in places with ochreous and very thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; an indistinct antemedial grey line obtusely angled 

 on median nervure, then oblique ; a straight oblique white band 

 from apex to inner margin beyond middle, towards which it is 

 broader and diffused on outer side and with traces of a line beyond 

 it. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with brown, especially 

 towards apex and termen ; the underside with the costal area 

 except towards base and apical area irrorated with dark brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca, type t S in Coll. U.S. Nat. litis. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



