XANTHIRIA. 



245 



laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- 

 thorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia curled 

 upwards at extremities ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the fore tibiae with small 

 curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with S 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 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4624. Xanthiria primnlina. 



Metoponia primulina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 303, pi. 28. f. 10 



(1889). 



S . Head, tegulse, and front of thorax bright yellow, the rest of 

 thorax deep rufous ; palpi, frons, antenna;, pectus, and legs tinged 

 with rufous, the sides of frons dark brown : antennae rufous, 

 ventrally yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright yellow 

 with deep rufous fascia on base of inner margin expanding into 

 slight teeth at middle and extremity ; the costal edge tinged with 

 rufous to beyond middle ; a subbasal black point in cell ; an ante- 

 medial black point in upper part of cell; the orbicular represented 



Fig. 99. —Xanthiria primulina, rf . \. 



by two black points, the reniform by two points on its inner edge 

 and one beyond upper angle of cell; faint traces of a rufous post- 

 medial line excurved from vein 7 to 4, then obliquely incurved, 

 with a brown point on inner margin ; a subterminal brown point 

 on inner margin. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with brown ; 

 cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing brown, the costa yellow 

 tinged with rufous ; hind wing white tinged with brown especially 

 on terminal area, traces of a diffused curved postmcdial line. 



Bab. Mexico, Guerrero, Omilteme (//. B. Smith), 3 d type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. oG millim. 



Genus STIRIODES, nov. 



Type, S. obtusa. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 the frons, the 2nd joint slightly fringed wiih hair, the 3rd short, porrect; 

 frons with rounded prominence with large flattened corneous plate at middle 

 and curved plate below it ; eyes large, round ; anttennae of male laminate 

 and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without 



