400 xocrriD.E. 



4863. Pseudina albina, n. sp. (Plate CXLV. fig. 28.) 



c? . Head black-brown with some blue-grey on vertex ; palpi 

 white with black patches at sides of joints ; irons white with black 

 centre ; thorax white, the base of tegulae with waved black and 

 brown band ; fore tibiae with brown bands, the tarsi brownish 

 banded with white ; abdomen black with some white at base and 

 on anal tuft above, the ventral surface white with black bands. 

 Fore wing silvery white ; subbasal line represented by slight black 

 stria? from costa and cell ; antemerlial line slight, black, interrupted 

 below costa and at submedian fold, oblique, waved ; a black patch 

 on middle of costa with some blue-grey suffusion on it, contracting 

 at subcostal nervure and with its lower edge in cell excised ; post- 

 medial line represented by a few black scales at costa and inner 

 margin ; a broad brown terminal band defined on inner side by an 

 irregularly waved black line except towards costa, incurved from 

 above vein 3 to submedian fold ; a pale waved subterminal line 

 defined by fuscous on inner side and with a dentate black mark 

 beyond it below apex, two at middle and two above tornus ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line defined on inner side by slight pale 

 lunules ; cilia brown with series of greyish fuscous lunules. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white ; a narrow brown terminal band from just 

 below apex to below vein 2, the cilia with blackish tips beyond the 

 dark band. 



$ . Palpi black, brown at tips ; frons black ; fore wing with 

 small dark postmedial spots on costa and inner margin ; hind wing 

 with the terminal band maculate, the cilia wholly white. 



Bab. Brazil, Castro Parana, 6 in Coll. D. Jones ; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay (Foster), 1 $ type. Eosp. 28 millim. 



Genus XEROCIRIS. 



Typo. 



Ciris, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 65 (1863), nee Kocb, 



Arachn. 1850 vilson i. 



Xerociris, Cockerell, Ent. News Philad. xv. p. 76 (1904) vilsoni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, (he 

 2nd joint moderately sealed, the 3rd moderate ; frons with large pointed 

 conical prominence; eyes large, round; antennae of male bipectinate with 

 rather long branches to apex; tegulas and thorax clothed chieily with scales, 

 the patagia entirely with hair, the prothorax with divided crest, the meta- 

 thorax with spreading crest ; abdomen with large dorsal crest on basal 

 segment. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceU ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole, 6 from the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4864. Xerociris vilsoni. 



Ciris wilsoiii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 65, pi. 3. f 1 (1863;; 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 40; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195. 



A . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with blue-black : 



