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two segments taken together, but shorter than the last three. Its 

 pile is brownish-yellow or brown, the color of the rather long 

 bristle-like hairs on the end of the first segment is dark-brown or 

 black. Feet clay-yellow ; front femora on the upper side with 

 short, on the under side with more elongate black bristles ; front 

 tibiae not bristly ; middle femora at the end of the posterior side 

 with a few bristles and, also, on the under side, with twc longitu- 

 dinal rows of short black bristles, which are more developed in 

 the male than in the female ; middle tibiae with a single row of 

 bristles; hind femora, at the end of the upper side with elongated 

 bristles, with shorter ones on the under side ; hind tibiae with 

 bristle-like cilia. Tegulae more than usually developed. Wings 

 rather large and broad ; the first longitudinal vein altogether 

 beset with bristles, the third far beyond the small crossvein, the 

 fifth upon the first and upon the beginning of its second section, 

 bristly; the second longitudinal vein ends in the costa at an 

 acute angle, and diverges very strongly from the third, the latter 

 is not bent anteriorly at its end; crossveins rather approximate, 

 the small one perpendicular and of a comparatively considerable 

 length ; the posterior one very steep and somewhat curved towards 

 its posterior end ; posterior angle of the anal cell drawn out in a 

 rather long lobe. The brownish-black, sometimes almost black 

 picture of the wings, is recognizable in Macquart's above-quoted 

 figure, although not correctly rendered ; the round pale spot in 

 the discal cell should be much nearer to its basis ; the pale inden- 

 tation at the posterior margin, near the basis of the wing, should 

 be much narrower; the stigma should be placed entirely in the 

 dark portion of the coloring; the hyaline double spot near the ante- 

 rior margin is seldom merely emarginate posteriorly ; in most cases 

 it is divided in two approximate triangular spots ; other differ- 

 ences in the picture likewise occur ; the most common is, that in 

 the discal cell, a little beyond the small crossvein, there is a short, 

 pale streak, crossing the cell, and which in some cases becomes 

 a hyaline transverse spot. A male from Brazil in my collection 

 has, instead of the round pale spot in the discal cell, only a 

 somewhat paler place without any distinct outline ; the agree- 

 ment in the other characters being perfect, I take it for a rather 

 unusual variety of T. eximia. 



Hab. Brazil, especially Bahia and St. Paulo; Surinam; 

 Mexico. 



