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Genus PLAGIOMIMICUS. 



Type. 



Plagiomimicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 182 (1873). pitychroma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect. extending to just beyond frons, the 

 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd short ; frons with large 

 round corneous prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round; antenna of male laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed with rough scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 

 spreading crest, the patagia somewhat curled upwards at extremities ; tibial 

 moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia? very short and broad with large 

 curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not 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 just below middle of 

 discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with triangular black-brown patch on costa 



before apex. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform filled in 



with black-brown pitychroma. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not filled 



in with black-brown. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with black-hrown patch in cell between the 



orbicular and reniform which are obsolete triplagiata. 



b l . Fore wing without black-brown patch in cell between 



orbicular and reniform which are defined hy white... lavcrna. 



B. Fore wing without triangular black-brown patch on costa 



before apex. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at 



vein 6 to near subterminal line dolli. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from below 



costa to vein 4 expallida. 



4631. Plagiomirnicus pitychroma. 



Flagiomimicus pitychromus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 1S2 



( 1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 263. 

 Schinia media, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 123 (1875). 



(5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; abdomen 



Fig. 102. — Plagiomimicus pitychroma, <$ . \- 



greyish suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with 

 red-brown ; antemedial line white with fine brown line on outer 

 edge, slightly excurved ; orbicular dark brown defined by white, 

 very oblique, bar-shaped, its outer edge somewhat excised ; reniform 

 a dark brown bar denned by white, its upper extremity somewhat 



