HOMCEOCERA. — NEOTKICHUEA. 



169 



fore cosic with small white points ; abdomen black, with narrow 



yellow segmental bands ; 

 small white subdorsal 

 points on 1st two segments : 

 a white spot on the venti'al 

 valve of male; wings hya- 

 line, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black. Fore wing 

 with the base black, witli 

 two minute white points 



on it. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding widely 



between veins 1 and 2. 



Hah. CosTA Rica (Underwood), Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 



40 millim. 



Fig. 81. — Horaceocera crassa, (^ . 



Genus NEOTRICHURA. 



Neotrichura, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aia., Ilet, ii. p. 3.50 (1897). 



Type. 



. , . ]}enate!^. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennte with the shaft dilated at middle, especially in female, bipectinate, with 

 short branches dilated at extremity ; tibife with the spurs moderate; thorax 

 clothed with woolly hair ; abdomen with subdorsal tufts of hair on first two 

 segments. Fore wing witli vein 3 from near angle of cell : 4, .5 froui angle ; 

 () from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, lU stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing of female 

 with the cell very long, vein 2 from near angle ; 3 and 5 absent ; (i, 7 from 

 upper angle; male with vein 2 from angle of cell; the whole apical part oi' 

 costal area bent over, forming a fold on under surface containing flocculerit 

 white hair. 



838. Neotrichura penates. 



Neotrichura penates, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. .350, pi. 72. f. 10 



(1897). 

 Cosmosoma dukinfieldia, Schaus, Journ. New York Eut. Soc. iv. i). 132 



(1897). 



Black ; antennjc white at tips ; frons with blue-green patch : 

 patagia with whitish point; abdomen shot with blue, diffused 

 blue-green at base and lateral and sublateral series of spots ; wings 



hyaline, the veins and 

 margins broadly black. Fore 

 tving with discoidal black 

 bar conjoined to costal fascia ; 

 two oblique ^lale brownisli 

 streaks on middle of inner 

 margin and a short streak 

 on costa beyond middle ; 

 the terminal band with 

 crenulate inner edge and 

 expanding at tornus and towards apex. Hind wing with the 

 terminal band expanding slightly towards apex. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui, Coll. .Staudinger, typef; Brazil, Castro 

 Paranji, Ilio Janeiro (Schaus), 1 cf 1 $ . E-v^). 4(] millim. 



Fig. 82. — ycotrichura pciiutes, t^ . 



