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cell to inner margin ; orbicular faintly defined by brown, round, 

 confluent with antemedial line; reniform faintly defined by brown, 

 elliptical, with whitish patch on its outer edge; an indistinct 

 brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell across 

 lower part of reniform, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 brown defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, slightly incurved at discal fold, theu oblique, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by whitish scales slightly defined on inner side by red-brown, 

 somewhat waved • a series of slight whitish lunules just before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with cupreous 

 brown, the cilia paler; the underside white slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



If ah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyac (Schumann), 1 J type, Godman- 

 Salvin Cull. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus GERODA. 



Type. 

 Geroda, Wlk. xix. 832 (1859) xeneusalis. 



Proboscis full}- developed ; palpi upturned, the '2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; t'rons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with long flattened crest projecting 

 obliquely backwards, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibiaa moderately 

 fringed with hair; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the costa strongly arched at base, the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen excised below apex and more or less excurved at middle, 

 then oblique to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of dis co- 

 eellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform a narrow white lunule angled 



inwards on median nervure cornifcra. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform with complete white annulus. excisa. 



C. Fore wing with the reniform figure-of-8-shaped, its 



lower part with white annulus, its upper part incomplete, leucocycla. 

 T>. Fore wing with the reniform yellow, its lower part with 



rufous spot and white annulus xeneusalis. 



4413. Geroda cornifera. 



Leva cornifcra, Wlk. xxxiii. 849 (1865). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; pectus whitish. Fore 

 wing rufous ; a black subbasal point in cell ; a strongly waved 

 antemedial dark line, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a black point ; reniform white slightly defined by black, 

 very narrow, produced to a long excurved point above and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; medial line rather indistinct, excurved 

 from costa to discal fold beyond the cell, then incurved to lower 

 angle of cell and oblique to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, 



