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xo< n idjs. 



Genus NEUMCEQENIA. 



I \pC. 



Xc, Grote, Pap. ii. p. 182 (1882) 



5 . Ottolengui, Can. Ent, xw p, 107 (1898), neo 



"','•2 com 



, l\var. C:.i Lep N Am. p. 196 (1902) 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly 

 reaching middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with 

 rounded prominence with corneous plate below and ridge above; eyes large. 



round: antenna 1 of male somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests: tibiae slightly Cringed 

 with hair; abdomen without crests. Pore wing with the apex somewhat 

 produced, the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and S from 

 near angle of cell: (i from upper angle; i^ from 10 anastomosing with 8t'i 

 form the areole : 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell . 

 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars J l>. 7 from upper angle: 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with white streak on terminal half of median 



n enure. 

 (?. Fore wing with the streak on median nervure bifurcating on 



veins 4, 8 poetica. 



':. Pore wing with the streak on median nervure and vein 4 

 not bifurcate 



B. Fore wing with purple-brown spot at lower angle of cell edged 



with white coronidc*. 



4<M'7. Neumcegenia poetica. 



Nenmagenia poetica, Grote, Papiiio, ii. pp. 132, 184 1882); Smith. Cat. 



8 X. Am. p. 265. 

 P/, - - Druce, Bi »L Centr.-Am.. Hot. i. p. 329, pi. 30. f. 12 (1889 . 



Dyar, Cat Lep. X. Am. p. 196. 



: \\\. p. 108, pi. 5. f. 7 



Head, teguhw and front of thorax yellowish white, the rest of 

 thorax brown; palpi, frons. and auten nee brownish : pectus and logs 

 ochreous white, the fore logs tinged with brown : abdomen ochreous 



Fig. 86.— A 



white. Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green, t he costal area 

 ochreous white expanding somewhat towards apex, the termen with 

 narrow ochreous white hand ; the base reddish brown with oblique 

 outer edge ; the extremity of median nervure and bases of veins 5, 4. 3 

 streaked with ochreous white : the termen and cilia pale olive with 



