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to postniedial line below vein 4 and short streak above vein 4 ; a 

 slight diffused oblique medial shade from costa to median uervure 

 and traces of an oblique line from cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line represented by a double oblique series of minute black 

 points from below costa to inner margin, with another curved 

 series of minute black points beyond it ; a slight oblique whitish 

 shade from apex ; the terminal area slightly suffused with brown, 

 the veins and interspaces with slight dark streaks: a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with 

 ochreous and with terminal series of black points from apex to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana ; Argentina, Gran Chaco, Florenzia 

 ( Wagner), 1 £ type. Exp. 24 millirn. 



Genus SELICANIS. 



Type. 



Selicanis, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 481 (1900) cinereoku 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching 

 middle of irons, the 3rd short; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of 

 male minutely serrate and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests; tibia; fringed with 

 long hair ; abdomen long with some rough hair at base but without crests. 

 Fore wing narrow, the costa almost straight, the apex rounded, the termen 

 obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (1 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 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



4429. Selicanis cinereola. 



Selicanis cinereola, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 481 (1900); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 179. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey- 

 white, the vertex of head whiter, the scales of thorax tipped with 

 grey. Fore wing red-brown irrorated with grey-white, the medial 

 area somewhat darker brown ; the 1st line almost medial, white, 



Fig. 27. — Selicanis cinereola, J 



very slightly incurved below median nervure ; claviform and orbi- 

 cular absent ; reniform represented by a white bar with dark brown 

 patch beyond it : postmedial line white, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4 just beyond the reniform, then 

 slightly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 



