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to tornus ; a terminal series of narrow blackish lunules ; cilia 

 chequered pale rufous and blackish. Hind wing greyish, suffused 

 with red-brown, the terminal area irrorated with brown ; a terminal 

 series of brown striae ; cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a red-brown discoidal 

 spot and diffused oblique postmedial line. 



5 . Abdomen with the anal tuft dark brown mixed with grey. 



Hah. Canada, Quebec, Hamilton {Moffat), 1 6 , 1 $ type ; U.S.A., 

 Maine. Exp. <5 48, $ 52 millim. 



Genus PHALERODES, nov. 



Type, P. cauta. 



Proboscis aborted, not functional ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the prothorax with divided crest, the metathorax with slight 

 crest ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with large dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved and not crenulate; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing 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 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4651. Phalerodes cauta. 



Charidea cauta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 293 (1902). 



S . Head fuscous brown and ocbreous ; thorax ochreous, the 

 tegulae with rufous mixed, the pro- and metathoracic crests with 

 black mixed ; fore legs brown, the tarsi with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing ochreous, 

 the costa rufous with some grey suffusion below it from before 

 middle to apex, a wedge-shaped chocolate-red patch from lower angle 

 of cell to termen below apex with white streaks below it above and 



Fig. 108. — Phalerodes cauta, J . {. 



below vein 4 from beyond angle of cell to termen, the terminal area 

 below it bluish white shading to fuscous at termen, the veins and 

 interspaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks, the inner 

 margin tinged with brown except at base ; the lines absent ; 

 orbicular defined by a few black scales, very small and rather 

 elongate ; reniform with narrow centre defined by a few black 

 scales and small white annulus round lower part ; cilia black 

 intersected by slight white streaks and with prominent white 



